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NORTHERN NEWS. 



Prof. T. G. Bonney will be president of the British Association meeting 

 at Sheffield next year. 



Mr. Joseph Dickenson, F.G.S. has been elected an Honorary Member 

 of the Manchester Geological and Mining Society. 



We regret to have to record the dea,th of Dr. J. H. Baily, Isle of Man, 

 a Vice-President of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. 



We learn from the Hull Daily Mail that ' It is a curious truth that a 

 butterfly can be frozen hard, and left so for some hours, yet on being re- 

 moved to warmth the insect will recover and fly away.' 



The plate presented with this number (plate IX.) is an effort on the 

 part of a well-known artist to portray a member of the staff of this journal. 

 It also shews that there are two sides to the question of collecting. 



The Sixteenth Report of the Borough of Leicester Museum and Art 

 Gallery has recently been issued, and besides containing particulars of the 

 changes in the institution, includes a list of the additions made from April 

 1st, 1905 to March 31st, 1908. 



Part 6 of Messrs. T. C. and E. C. Jack's ' Wild Beasts of the World ' 

 (i/-), contains excellent coloured illustrations of the Glutton, Badger, 

 Skunk, Otter, Coati, and Polar Bear. There are also descriptions of these, 

 and several other interesting mammals. 



We are glad to notice that one of the Lancashire Museums has un- 

 limited exhibition space, and is making good use of it. Amongst the recent 

 additions are ' 40 species British Trees, mounted, illustrating stages of 

 growth.' Wouldn't they have looked better if kept alive, and ' tubbed ' ? 



The Perthshire Society of Natural Science continues to place on record 

 the valuable work of its members. Its recently issued Transactions and 

 Proceedings, published at the Natural History Museum, Perth, is full of 

 useful papers, which are illustrated by a large number of plates from photo- 

 graphs of scenery, rock-sections, stone circles, etc., etc. 



We regret to record the death of Professor H. G. Seeley, F.R.S., of 

 King's College, London, whose writings on palaeontology and comparative 

 anatomy are well known. Professor Seeley was present at the meetings 

 of Section ' C ' at the Dublin meeting of the British Association, though 

 he did not seem to be in his usual health. He was born in 1839. 



On April i6th, at the Otley Police Court, a German waiter, employed 

 at the Ben Rhydding Hydro, was — at the instigation of the Y.N.U. Wild 

 Birds Protection Committee — prosecuted for shooting a Tawny Owl in the 

 grounds of the Hydro. A unique defence was set up. Defendant pleaded 

 that in Germany they got 3d. each for shot owls, and he was unaware of 

 the law of this country. He was cautioned and ordered to pay the costs. 



A Report of the Corresponding Societies' Committee and of the Con- 

 ference of Delegates held at the Dublin Meeting of the British Association 

 is issued in advance of the Association's Report. It is sold at the Office of 

 the Association, Burlington House, at one shilling. A valuable feature is 

 the ' Catalogue of the more important papers, especially those referring 

 to Local Scientific Investigations, published by the corresponding Societies 

 during the year ending May 31st, 1908. 



We are delighted to find that Prof. P. F. Kendall is the recipient of 

 the Lyell Medal of the Geological Society this year, and that Mr. H. Brant- 

 wood Muff, another of our contributors, shares the Lyell Fund with Mr. 

 R. G. Carruthers. Mr. Horace B. Woodward receives the Wollaston 

 Medal, Prof. G. A. J. Cole receives the Murchison Medal; the Murchison 

 Fund going to Mr. J. V. Elsden. The Bigsby Medal is awarded to Dr. 

 J. S. Flett, and Lady Evans receives the Prestwich Medal. 



Naturalist, 



