NORTHERN NEWS, Etc. 
We learn that Frederic Enoch died at Hastings on May 31st. He was 
71 years of age. 
A little while ago the timber in a wood on the south-west side of 
Lowthorpe Station, near Bridlington, was felled and cleared away. Its 
site is now entirely covered by a magnificent thick growth of meadow- 
sweet. 
The Pyvoceedings of the Cheltenham Natural Science Society contain 
papers on ‘‘ The Long Barrow Race beyond the Cotteswolds,”’ by E. T. 
Wilson, ‘ Extinct Apes,’ by A. G. Thacker, and ‘Church Glass,’ by A. J. 
de H. Bushnell. 
Entomologists interested in Nomenclature will find some puzzles in 
the report of the British National Committee on Entomological Nomen- 
clature, printed in the Tyvansactions of the London Entomological Society, 
part 5, issued on June 2nd. 
The report of the Norwich Museum for 1915 (21 pp.) contains records 
of many noteworthy additions made during the year. As a frontispiece 
is an illustration of ‘ Adult Male, “ chick ’”’ (1905) and egg (1838) of Em- 
peror Penguin, in the Museum Collection.’ 
The 29th Report of the Bootle Museum Committee is to hand, and 
shows that there have been over 41,000 visitors to the Museum during 
the year. Dr. Clubb of the Liverpool] Museum, has given 24 nicely 
mounted specimens of British Birds, in exchange for some skins of foreign 
birds; and 75 duplicate specimens of common birds have been sent 
to the schools in Bootle. 
Sir William Ramsay, the eminent chemist whose researches into the 
rarer gases, and the properties of radium, won him world-wide repute, 
died recently at Beechcroft, Hazlemere, Bucks, after an illness of some 
months’ duration. He was born at Glasgow i in 1852, and was the only 
son of the late Mr. William Ramsay, C.E., whose younger brother, the 
late Sir Andrew Ramsay, was a famous eeologist. ; 
A pamphlet with the title “The Meaning of Life,’ deals with ‘ The 
Ascent of Man.’ The author states, ‘I want to give you, if I can, a clear 
understanding of my theory regarding the ascent of man from the very 
beginning. . . . I cannot understand anyone, who looks at it from the 
r ight point of view, hesitating to accept the whole of it. The only difficulty 
is to get the right point of view.’ This ‘right’ point of view of course 
is the author’s. He calls it the “only ’ difficulty. Most people find it 
“some ’ difficulty. 
Dr. Aubrey Strahan, Director of the Geological Survey, has favoured 
us with a copy of his address on ‘ The Search for New Coal-fields in 
England,’ delivered at the Royal Institution, London, recently. The 
paper contains a useful summary of the history of coal-mining in this 
country, as well as the prospects for further supplies of coal in areas at 
present unworked. It is illustrated by maps and diagrams, and, as might 
be expected from the author’s reputation and experience, is a valuable 
statement as to the present position of the question. 
Following on the report of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union meeting 
at Malton, there has been a correspondence in The Yorkshive Post in 
reference to ‘ Willow Warblers and Chiffchaffs.’ That this has proved of 
oe interest is shown by an illustrated ‘joke,’ by ‘ Kester,’ in the 
Yorkshive Evening Post. Two birds (? a robin and a sea-gull) are perched 
on adjoining trees, one is reading a paper on which appears, ‘Yorkshire 
Post Willow Warbler and Chifichaff,’ with the legend : ‘ Willow Warbler : 
Fancy not knowing the difference between a Warbler and a mere Chiffchaff. 
People must be blind and deaf. Why you can’t sing for nuts with your 
silly ‘‘ chiff chaff.’’’ Moral for songsters: Don’t eat too many nuts and 
don’t let Kester sketch yer. 
Naturalist, 
thaw 
