gn Memoriam. 
Rev... MAULE COLE, MAS F.G:S. 
1833—I9QII. 
WE much regret to learn, as we go to press, of the death of our 
old friend and contributor, the Vicar of Wetwang. The Rev. 
E. M. Cole has been in indifferent health for some little time, 
though he joined the East Riding Antiquarian Society on the 
occasion of one of its meetings but a few months ago. Those 
who then saw him could discern that his more than three score 
years and ten were soon to be brought to a close. 
The Rev. gentleman was never so happy as when conduct- 
ing a geological or archeological party over his beloved district, 
the Yorkshire Wolds; and none knew them so well nor could 
describe them so ably. He was a frequent contributor to these 
pages, and took a keen interest in geology and prehistoric 
archeology. The Rev. gentlemen was present at most of the 
excavations in the British barrows made by his friend Mr. J. R. 
Mortimer. As a popular lecturer, too, he had a great reputa- 
tion. One of the last occasions upon which he was away from 
home, if not the last, was on paying a visit to the present 
writer, in company with his life-long friend, Sir Tatton Sykes. 
An account of the Rev. E. M. Cole, with a portrait and list 
of his papers appeared in The Naturalist for August, 1907 
(pp. 267-269 and Pl. XXXII.). 
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PROCEEDINGS OF PROVINCIAL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
Vol. X XV. of the Transactions and Proceedings of the Botanical Society 
of Edinburgh, (336 pp.), is entirely occupied by a memoir on ‘ Distribution 
of Hepaticz in Scotland’, by Symers M. Macvicar. 
The Forty-ninth Annual Report of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union 
for 1910, containing the reports, etc., of the various committees and sec- 
tions, is on sale by Messrs. A. Brown & Sons, Hull, at one shilling net. 
In addition to The Library Circular, a Quarterly Record of Additions ; 
the Sunderland Public Library has recently issued a ‘ Select List of Books 
on Nature Study, including Aquaria, Microscopy, and Taxidermy.’ This 
will prove very useful to teachers and others. We were a little startled 
to find that The Naturalist was not in the list of periodicals taken by this 
otherwise up-to-date library ; but we learn that this state of things is to be 
remedied. 
The Transactions of the East Riding Antiquarian Society, Vol. XVII., 
1910, contain four papers, viz.: ‘The Aske Family,’ by Col.. Philip 
‘Saltmarshe ; ‘The Stature of Early Man in East Yorkshire,’ by J. R. 
Mortimer ; and ‘ The Pre-historic Boat from Brigg,’ by Thomas Sheppard ; 
(illustrated by 29 blocks); and ‘ Hull and East Yorkshire Trademen’s 
Tokens,’ by W. Sykes (with 106 illustrations). There is also the Secretary’s 
Report, List of Members, and Balance Sheet. 
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