III 
“NORTHERN NEWS. 
Mr. J. W. Taylor has been elected an Honorary Member of the Con- 
chological Society of Great Britain and Ireland. 
Dr. Tempest Anderson favours us with a reprint of his paper on ‘ The 
Volcanoes of Matavanu in Savaii (‘ Quarterly Journal Geological Society,’ 
No. 264). It is illustrated by a fine series of photographs. 
Mr. Percy H. Grimshaw is preparing a work on British Diptera, upon 
the lines of Canon Fowler’s ‘Coleoptera of the British Isles.’ It will 
Reeve & Co. 
It is satisfactory to learn from the Chairman’s introductory remarks 
to the report of the Brighton Library, Museum, and Art Gallery, that ‘ Mr 
H. D. Roberts, the Director, Mr. Toms, the Curator, and the Staff generally, 
have all done their work during the year to the satisfaction of the Com- 
mittee.’ 
Messrs. A. Beck and S. Hainsworth, of the Bradford Natural History 
and Microscopal Society, have recently been the recipients of a presentation 
at the hands of their fellow members at Bradford. In future, they are 
to live in Queensland, and doubtless the love of natural history which has 
-been fostered in Yorkshire, will stand then in good stead in Australia. 
We should like to draw the attention of our readers to the fact that the 
widow of the late Rev. W. R. Linton has a few copies of the excellent 
“Flora of Derbyshire’ (cloth, 457 pp. and maps), on hand. These are 
being sold at the reduced price of 6/-. Application for copies at this 
price should be made promptly to Mrs. W. R. Linton, Bowbridge, Mack- 
worth, Derby. 
The ‘ Hastings and East Sussex Naturalist’ (Vol. I., No. 5, 2/-) con- 
tains an obituary notice of the late E. T. Connold ; ‘ Notes on East Sussex 
Ravens,’ by Mr. T. Parkin ; ‘Notes on the local Fauna and Flora,’ by Rev. 
E.N. Bloomfield; ‘ Hastings Coleoptera,’ by Mr. W. H. Bennett ; ‘ Neolithic 
Man in the Forest of Anderida,’ by Col. H. W. Feilden ; and ‘ The Marine 
Mollusca,’ by the Editor, Mr. W. R. Butterfield. 
The Geological Society of London this year awards its medals and 
funds as follows :—The Wollaston Medal to Professor Waldemar C. Brogger, 
Sc.D.; The Murchison Medal to Mr. Richard H. Tiddeman, M.A.; The 
Lyell Medals to Dr. Francis A. Bather, M.A., and Dr. Arthur W. Rowe ; 
The Bigsby Medal to Dr. O. Abel; The Wollaston Fund to Professor 
-O. T. Jones, M.A.; The Murchison Fund to Mr. Edgar S. Cobbold ; The 
Lyell Fund to Professor Charles G. Cullis, D.Sc., and Mr. John F. N 
«Green. 
The Annual Report of the Brighton Library, Museum and Art Galleries 
for 1910, contains particulars of several interesting additions to the col- 
lections during the year. There are plates shewing a Hawk Owl which has 
been added to the Booth collection ; and a collection of old Sussex candle- 
lanterns. The lady assistants in the library now wear dark green alpaca 
overalls. We are glad to notice that ‘their provision appears to have 
given general satisfaction.’ 
A third museum is to be built at Hull, through the generosity of Mr. 
-C. Pickering. It is to be erected in west Hull, and is to be devoted to 
-specimens illustrating the growth and evolution of the shipping and fishing 
industries. It will also contain specimens illustrating the natural history 
and economical aspect of various species of fish, and room will also be 
found for the models of Japanese fishing appliances, which were presented 
to the Corporation of. Hull by the Japanese Government, at the close of 
the Japan-British Exhibition in London. 
a9rr Feb: 1. 
