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for experiment. In any case if Radioleum has anything like the 
properties claimed for it, we shall certainly be hearing much 
more of Mrs. Dickinson and her discoveries in years to come. 
TUNBRIDGE WELLS HANDBOOK. 
In one respect the South Eastern Union has carried out a 
magnificent piece of work, which will be a valuable scientific 
record of the district for all time. This is entitled ‘ Tunbridge 
Wells and Neighbourhood. A Chronicle of the Town from 
1608 [2 1606] to 1915, and papers by various writers relating 
to the Geology, Plant and Animal Life, Archeology, and other 
matters: of the District. Edited by Ménry Ry Knipe, LL.B., 
F.L.S., &c., President of the Tunbridge Wells Literary Society.’ 
and contains 205 pages with illustrations, the whole being 
bound in an artistic cover. The publication is sold at 2s. 6d. 
The first section contains a chronological list of the events 
between 1606 and the present day. There are chapters on 
Archeology, Geology, and the various Natural History sections, 
by first-rate men. The editor, Mr. Knipe, is certainly to be 
congratulated upon a very valuable piece of work. 
DR. W. EAGLE CLARK, 
Readers of The Naturalist will be delighted to learn that 
the St. Andrew’s University has conferred the degree of Doctor 
of Laws, ‘honoris causa,’ on a past-President of the Yorkshire 
Naturalists’ Union, William Eagle Clark, F.R.S.E. Dr. Eagle 
Clarke was at one time Curator of the Museum at Leeds, and 
took a prominent part in the affairs of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ 
Union, and was joint Editor of The Naturalist. Twenty-eight 
years ago he received an appointment at the Royal Scottish 
Museum, Edinburgh, where he is now the keeper of the 
Natural History Department. While he was one of the Hon. 
Secretaries of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union, together with 
his colleague, Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, he wrote a ‘ Handbook 
of Yorkshire Vertebrata.’ He is also the author of a mag- 
nificent volume ‘ Studies in Bird Migration,’ and at the present 
time is preparing a new edition of Newton’s Dictionary of 
Birds. 

ale Oia 
The following are a few scraps picked from the discussions during the 
scientific feast at the South Eastern Union’s Congress at Tunbridge 
Wells :— 
A collector is no good if he is not a thief. 
The blush that fades at seventeen fixes itself at forty-five. 
While each of us would resent anything said against our mother, all 
of us would be glad to have had a frisky grandmother. 
Improper criticism should be put in the waste paper basket, where 
we all put our sotled linen (and Sir Henry Howorth wondered why the 
delegates laughed ! ). 
’ Dr. Chalmers Mitchell showed a slide of amzba, one of which had a 
wide ‘modern’ waist, another had a slim one such as he used to put his. 
arms round years ago, he said. 
1916 July 1. 
