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-NORTHERN NEWS. 
We regret to see announcements of the deaths of Geoffrey Meade-Waldo, 
and John Hill; both well known entomologists. 
The Journals of the Northants. Natural History Society and Field Club 
for 1915 contain an account of the Leper Hospitals of Northamptonshire ; 
Northamptonshire Spas, the birds of Northamptonshire, the fortifications 
of Northampton, the Snail and its name, and on ‘making sections of 
shells’ ; the last being Mulluscan, not munition. 
We see from the report of the Manchester Museum for 1914-15 that 
during the year a donation of £1,368 has been received, anonymously, 
in order to pay off the debt on the new museum buildings. The museum 
has also received a legacy of £48 for the Geological department, and a fur- 
ther bequest of £500 from another source. Items of this sort are distinctly 
encouraging, and are some indication of the public feeling towards museums 
as compared with that of the Government. 
We regret to record the death of Sir William Turner, K.C.B., LL.D., 
D.C.L., D.Sc.; F:R.S., etc., Principal of the Edinburgh University. Sir 
William was a native of Lancaster, where he was born in 1832. He was 
President of the British Association at the Bradford meeting in rgo0o0, and 
he had occupied the presidential chair of the Museums Association. He 
was the author of numerous works on anatomy and physiology, hada 
considerable reputation as an anthropologist, and to naturalists was 
perhaps best known for his memoirs on whales, 
The Journal of the East Africa and Uganda Natura! History Society 
for March (61 pages, Longmans Green and Co., 5s. 4d.) contains the follow- 
ing interesting papers, most of which are well illustrated ; together with 
shorter notes African Lung Fish, by Sir B. J. Jackson ; The Alleged 
sre nae of East Africa by C. W. Hobley ; Experiments in Hawking 
by W. F. Bryant ; Rearing and Taming of Wild Birds by Dr. V. G. Te: 
Van cena The Organic Cell, by E. Winstone-Waters ; On the Spiny 
Mice of British East Africa, with a description of a new Species from 
Magadi, and two New Pigmy Gerbils from British East Africa, both by 
Guy Dollman. 
T'rom the British Museum, Natural History, we have received The 
Report on Cetacea stranded on the British Coasts during 1915, by Dr. S. F. 
Harmer (4to, with map, 12 pages, Is. 6d.). Conditions prevailing during 
the past year have resulted in fewer records having been received by Dr. 
Harmer than in previous years. His excellent map at the end shows at once 
when and where whales were washed up on our coast. The only records for 
the area covered by The Naturalist are, Porpoises at Whitby, Ulrome, 
Skegness and Sutton-on-Sea; a common Rorqual at Amble; a lesser 
Rorqual at Ulrome, and a White-beaked Dolphin at Skinningrove. Full 
details as to the dates, measurements etc, are given in the report. 
At the recent-annual meeting of the British Ornithologists’ Union, a 
resolution was passed in favour of admitting ladies as ordinary members of 
the Union. This question has been brought up at several previous annual 
meetings. On the last occasion—as a recompense—it was decided to elect 
not more than ten honorary lady members. It almost looks as though 
there has been some feminine influence behind this continuous agitation, 
and it will be interesting to note who is the first lady ordinary member to be 
elected. At the same meeting there’ were ‘ructions’ respecting the 
membership of King Ferdinand ai Bulgaria. In his younger days, he was 
both a good ornithologist and a good entomologist. The trouble was not 
so much on a question “of honour as on a point of order. A small clique of 
members, in their enthusiam to erase the name of this traitorous monarch 
from the list of members, had transgressed the rules of the Union. Later 
the motion was put into order; a special General Meeting was called ; 
Xing Ferdinand banished, and all ended well. 
Naturalist 
