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NORTHERN NEWS, Etc. 
We regret to notice the death, at Lewes, of Charles Dawson, the 
discoverer of the famous Piltdown skull. 
Publication 55 of the Belfast Municipal Art Gallery and Muesum deals 
with Soils and their Builders; How Plants Grow; and Garden Pests. 
The ‘Library Circular No. 60’ issued by the Sunderland Public 
Libraries, Museum and Art Gallery, contains particulars of recent additions. 
to the Museum, among which we notice several cases of birds. 
The Report of the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or 
Natural Beauty has been received. During the past year Thurstaston 
Heath, Cheshire, has been presented to the Trust, and a further portion 
of Wicken Fen has been obtained. 
The 93rd Report of the Whitby Litevary and Philosophical Society is not 
very encouraging, and probably for the first time in the Society’s history 
not asingle donation has been made to the Museum during the year. There 
are some meteorological tables in the Report. 
Mr. John Walker, Bootmaker and Antiquarian, of Hull, has recently 
died at the age of 78. He was a well-known Hull character, and for 43. 
years has followed the hounds in Holderness on foot. In his shop he had a 
miscellaneous collection of curios. He occasionally joined the excursions: 
of the local scientific societies. 
We much regret to record the death of J. A. Harvie-Brown, of Duni- 
pace House, N.B. Mr. Harvie-Brown was intimately associated with 
The Scottish Naturalist, and was the joint author of a number of valuable 
memoirs bearing upon the Natural History of the various parts of Scotland. 
He was born in 1844, was a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and 
of the Zoological Society, and a member of the British Ornithologists’ 
Union. According to IVho’s Who, he is the author of over 250 books, papers 
and notices. He was an occasional contributor to The Naturalist. 
Parts 1 and 2 of Volume 60, of the Memoirs and Proceedings of the 
Manchester Litevary and Philosophical Society, contain the following in- 
teresting ges — ‘Animal Symmetry and the Differentiation of Species,” 
by Prof. J. Hickson; ‘ Relationship between the Geographical Dis- 
tribution or Megalithic Monuments and Ancient Mines,’ by J. W. Perry 
and Prof. G. E. Smith; ‘ Notes on some Palaeozoic Fishes,’ by D. M. S. 
Watson and H. Day; ‘A Change in the Habits of the Black-Headed 
Gull,’ by T. A. Coward; ‘The Money Cowry as a Sacred Object among 
North American Indians,’ ‘The Aztec Moon-cult and its Relation to the 
Chank-cult of India,’ ‘ The Geographical Distribution of the Shell-Purple 
Industry,’ ‘Shell-Trumpets and their Distribution in the Old and New 
World,’ by J. Wilfred Jackson; ‘The Geographical Distribution of 
Terraced Cultivation and Irrigation,’ by W. J. Perry. 
The death took place in Edinburgh Infirmary on August 27th of Dr. 
C.T. Clough of the Geological Survey of Scotland. He was collecting 
specimens at the railway near Manuel, West Lothian, on Wednesday, and 
was run over by a passing train. Both his legs had to be amputated. 
Dr. Clough was for many years engaged in the geological survey of North- 
West Yorkshire, especially in the Sedbergh, Wensleydale and Upper 
Teesdale districts. The earliest Yorkshire publication which bears his 
name was issued as long ago as 1877. In 1883 he completed the map of 
the Angram district. He has written much upon the whindyke of Upper 
Teesdale. In the service of the Geological Survey he had attained to the 
rank of district geologist in charge of the work of revision of the map. 
The circumstances of his death will remind geologists of that of another 
famous Yorkshire geologist, Hugh Strickland, Professor of Geology at 
Oxford, who was killed many years ago by being knocked down by a 
train w hile he was collecting fossils on the railw ay banks near Doncaster. 
—(Yorkshive Observer). 
Naturailist,. 
