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be little more than a palliative. Growers should promptly burn 
all diseased foliage. The practice of throwing diseased plants 
on to a rubbish heap is a great mistake as there is no doubt 
that the fungus can live through the winter and attack fresh 
plants the following year. 
Mr. Roberts informs me that if he had many visitations 
like that of last year, celery growing would become impractic- 
able. The disease must not be confounded with Cercospora 
apii Fr., a Hyphomycete, which attacks celery plants usually 
early in the season. 
Still another celery disease, Phyllosticta apit Halsted, has 
appeared in this country during recent years. This is some- 
what similar in outward appearance to the Septoria, but the 
spores in the former are broadly elliptical, while in the latter 
they are needle-shaped. 


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We much regret to record the death of Prof. R. Meldola, at the age of 66. 
Mr. W. Denison Roebuck has been elected an honorary member of 
the Conchological Society. 
Dr. R. Assheton, F.R.S., the well-known zoologist, has died. He was 
born at Downham Hall in Lancashire in 1863. 
The Collections in the British and Medieval Department at the British 
Museum have been re-arranged and better displayed. 
The roll of British Officers who have fallen in Gallipoli includes the 
name of Colonel Neville Manders, A.M.S., F.Z.S., F.E.S. 
Lady Church has recently presented to the British Museum the fine 
collection of precious stones tormed by the late Sir Arthur Herbert Church. 
An excellent portrait and biography of Prof. William Whitehead Watts 
appears in the Geological Magazine for November. It is one of the 
‘Eminent Living Geologists ’ series. 
We notice from the syllabus of one of our leading Yorkshire natural 
history societies that ‘ladies are now admitted as “full’’ members.’ 
Apparently the gentlemen have previously had the monopoly of being 
‘full.’ This society’s meetings ought to be lively, anyway. 
We see that a meeting has been held to form a ‘ Society for the Study 
of Geological Physics,’ or ‘ A Society to Study Mineral Life,’ we are not 
quite sure which. In any case, we do not anticipate that it will seriously 
clash with the work of the Mineralogical Society. 
Mr. E. K. Robinson is organising a fund to send copies of his pamphlet, 
‘The Meaning of Life’ to the soldiers. It contains four leaves, without 
covers, and is sold at 1$d.! The ‘leading article’ in the leaflet before 
us is entitled, ‘Is there a Devil?’ It may be of use to the soldiers. 
We much regret to record the death ot Mr. W. H. Wheeler, at the age 
of 83. He was an occasional contributor to these columns. He paid 
much attention to the problems connected with coast erosion and the 
draining of fen lands. So long ago as 1868 he published a ‘ History of 
the Fens of South Lincolnshire.’ He also published books on ‘ Tidal 
Rivers’ (1893); ‘The Sea Coast’ (1902); ‘ Practical Manual of Tides 
and Waves’ (1906), and ‘The North Sea’ (1908). Mr. Wheeler was 
elected a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1867, and he was 
a frequent visitor to the meetings of the British Association, 
1916 Jau.1. 
