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of Nature’s Noblemen. Take him all in all, we shall not 
look upon his like again. 
After a few days’ illness, he passed away, October 6th, 
his 76th year, and was interred in the Churchyard of St. 
Bartholomew’s, Armley. He wasa bachelor. Representatives 
of the Society attended the funeral, which took place on October 
11th, exactly a fortnight after that of his old friend, Mr. W. 
Barraclough, which he had attended. It is now made public 
that the deceased gentleman, amongst numerous other chari- 
table bequests, has left to his Society the sum of £100. 
E.G. B: 
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The Birmingham and Midland Institute Scientific Society has issued 
its annual and valuable ‘ Records of Meteorological Observations, taken 
at the Observatory, Edgbaston, t915, by Mr. Alfred Cresswell,’ at 2s. In 
addition it has published Mr, Ernest Crocker’s Presidential Address (24 
pages) entitled ‘Science as Enemy and Ally.’ 
The Report of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham 
and Newcastle-on- Tyne, shows that the work of this excellent Society 
and its Museum has still further been interfered with, by the fact that 
the Curator, Mr. E. L. Gill, is in France on ambulance work, and that the 
caretaker has died. Under the care of the assistant Curator, Mr. H. 
Fletcher, some progress has b2en made, which is detailed in the Report. 
At the Annual Meeting of the Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union, held at 
Lincoln on November gth, the Rev. F. L. Blathwayt mentioned that in 
June last he went to see the work of a pair of starlings nesting in a barn 
at Black Moor Farm, Doddington. For about a fortnight the birds 
ersevered in pushing hay and straw through a hole in the roof, but there 
being no support, the stuff all fell through to the ground below, and formed 
a large pile, four feet six inches high and four feet wide at the base, and 
weighing, he was told, to lb. The attempt was at last given up. Mr. 
Guy W. Mason was elected president for the year, and the Rev. F. L. 
Blathwayt vice-president. The secretary, treasurer and sectional officers 
were all re-elected. 
“Enquirer ’ writes as follows :—‘I should be much obliged if any of 
your readers could tell me what are ‘‘ Terlalogims.’’ From the facts before 
me I infer that there are several classes of them, one of which is called 
‘““ Index Terlalogims,’’ but I do not know the names of the others. They 
would appear to present great variations, for 2,300 coloured figures can 
be purchased for {2. They have been studied by an author named W ood, 
This is all the knowledge T have been able to acquire up to the present, 
but any further information would be gratefully received.’ 
We must confess that, at first, the enquiry puzzled us, but as we were 
asked a little while ago to pay a visit to a suburb of London, in order to 
see a toad’s nest in a gooseberry bush, we naturally felt our correspondent 
was of this harmless variety. It appears, however, that on the cover of 
a certain well-known natural history journal, a copy of ‘ Wood’s Index 
Terlalogims ’ was offered for sale. We found that the editor of the journal 
had no control of the advertisements and knew nothing of the matter ; 
but the publishers kindly allowed us to see the MS. for the advertisement, 
and we must admit that, from a compositor’s point of view, the word was 
clearly ‘ Terlalogims,’ but, as the printer explained, ‘naturalists are gener 
ally suc d writers’ (even in the letter by ‘ Enquirer ’ who is a naturalist 
of some standing, the word looks like ‘ Julalogirus’!).. The book offered 
for sale, of course, should have been Wood’s Index Testaceologicus. 
1916 Oct. 1. 
