242 Notes and Comments. 
Rimbault Dibdin, of the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. The 
following papers, etc., were read:—Address by the President 
of the Association ; Mr. F. Woolnough, ‘The Future of Pro- 
vincial Museums’; Mr. F. R. Rowley, Demonstration of the 
results of experiments on the use of arsenious jelly as a 
preservative; Dr. J. A. Clubb, © Note on the educational value 
in Public Museums of Introductory Cases to animal groups’ ; 
Mr. Reginald A. Smith, ‘ The collections made by the late Lord 
Avebury ’; Mr. E. E. Lowe, ‘ The British Science Guild’; Mr. 
Reginald A. Smith, Demonstration in the Geological Room at 
the Museum of Grime’s Graves and Northfleet flints; Mr. J. 
Reid Moir, Demonstration ve Sub-Crag Implements ; Inspection 
of the Museum under the guidance of the Curator, who invited 
criticism of fittings, arrangement of specimens, etc.; Mr. A. H. 
Millar, LL.D., “The Photographic Survey of Dundee’; Mr. F. 
Woolnough, (a) ‘Description of case for exhibiting Postage 
Stamps, with lantern illustrations’; (6) ‘Demonstration of 
methods of preserving Flowers in their Natural Colours’: (1) 
The Fothergill Process, (2) Hot Sand Process; Private H. D. 
Skinner, “Museums and the consolidation of the Empire’ ; 
Mr. W. Kk. Spencer, ‘The use of Gelatine Moulds for Plaster 
Casts’; Mr. E. E. Lowe, ‘Report on the supply of Museum 
Glassware.’ 
A WONDERFUL WHEEL ANIMALCULE. 
A remarkable account of one of the wheel animalcules, 
or rotifers, is given by Mr. Charles Rousselet in Knowledge. 
The rotifer—a mere speck 54, part of an inch is size—first 
allows itself to be eaten and taken inside an armed and well- 
defended fortress (in the shape of another organism), and then 
assails it from the inside; and, when this does not succeed 
at once, weakening the master of the castle, and depriving 
him of his food-supply by the simple plan of consuming it 
himself, and refusing all the time to be digested! Lastly 
the rotifer lays one or more eggs, and forces its way out again. 
BRIGISH “BIRDS. = 
With commendable promptitude the third volume of this 
magnificent publication, which has been already noticed in 
these columns, has appeared. If possible the illustrations 
seem to be of even more general interest than in the two 
preceding volumes, especially as several are of peculiar interest 
to Yorkshire Naturalists. Plate 60 shows examples of the 
Great Bustard with their extraordinary displays. The Bitterns 
(plate 41), are very different from the usual ‘ stuffed ’ specimens 
one meets with in Museums. There are many excellent 

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