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PROCEEDINGS OF PROVINCIAL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
The Huddersfield Naturalist and Photographic Society’s Annual Report, 
1909-10, is to hand, and contains brief local natural history notes by 
Messrs. C. Mosley, E. Fisher, W. E.L. Wattam, and J. W. H. Johnson. We 
observe that of one lecturer it is stated ‘his slides were very good!’ 
The Proceedings of the Liverpool Naturalists’ Field Club for the year 
1910 contains a detailed report of the field excursions; the records, etc., 
being chiefly botanical. A photograph of the Botanical Referee, Mr. paw: 
Ellis, appears as frontispiece. This Club has been in existence half a 
century. 
In Vol. XV., part 3, of the Thoresby Society’s Miscellanea, Mr. E. Kitson 
Clark has a paper on Leeds in Pre-historic Times. The author admits there 
is not much to be said on the subject, and his paper is illustrated by a 
photograph on which are figures of some ‘ pre-historic ’ implements. Some 
of these are certainly not implements at all, others are forgeries, and some 
are from Bridlington. Mr. Kidston Clark refers to the writer of a Hull 
Museum Publication on Forgeries and Counterfeit Antiquities, perhaps 
pardonably, as J. Sheppard! 
The Transactions of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science, Vol. V., 
Pt. 2, 1909-10, contain ‘Some Lessons from the Darwin Centenary,’ by 
Dr. J. H. Lyell; ‘Coleoptera of Kinnoull Hill,’ by Mr. W. E. Sharp ; 
“Some Ectoparasites in the Museum, Perth ’ [these are all dead by. Dr: 
J. Waterston ; ‘ Perthshire Diptera,’ by Mr. A. E. J. Carter; ‘ David 
Douglas [of] Scone, botanist, etc.,’’ by Mr. R. Dow; ‘Our Alpine Flora,’ 
by the President (Mr. W. Barclay). There are also four valuable coloured 
maps of Perthshire, viz. : Orographical, Drift, Solid Geology, and Vegetation. 
The 34th and 35th Quarterly Records of the Hull Museum (Publications 
Nos. 74 and 76) are to hand. (A. Brown & Sons, one penny each). In 
addition to the ordinary list of additions, there are illustrated articles (in 
No. 74) on ‘ An Old Jewel Casket from a Holderness Village,’ ‘ Early Hum- 
ber Steamships,’ ‘Staffordshire Pottery Figure of a Slave,’ ‘ Hull Glass,’ 
“Wild Flowers,’ and ‘ Neolithic Workshops near Bridlington ’ ; and (No. 
76) “ A Giant Crab,’ ‘ Holderness Neolithic Axes,’ ‘Old Hull Waterpipes,’ 
* The Kiwi,’ ‘ Scunthorpe Cinerary Urns,’ ‘ Early Hull and London Ships,’ 
etc., and a report of the opening of the Natural History Extension of the 
Museum. 
The Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (Vol. XXIX., Section B, 
No. 2. London: Williams & Norgate, 1/6) are devoted to ‘ A Synopsis of 
the False-Scorpions of Britain and Ireland,’ by our contributor, Mr. H.Wallis 
Kew. This is a work that has long been required by the students of the 
Arachnid. There is a careful and critical description of the various 
species of the British False-Scorpions, which are represented on three 
plates. With these excellent figures it should not now be a difficult 
matter to identify the various species. Formerly it required reference 
to an extensive literature before identification could be certain. % We 
should like to congratulate Mr. Wallis Kew on this admirable piece of 
work. 
The Annual Report of the Manchester Microscopical Society for 1909 
has recently been issued (i140 pp., 1/6), and is further proof of this energetic 
society's activity. The list of additions to the society's library and col- 
lection is particularly gratifying. The volume contains Prof. J. Hickson’s 
presidential address on ‘ The Origin of Sex’; and papers on ‘ The Red 
Seaweeds,’ by Mr. L. W. Waechter; ‘ The Frog,’ by Mr. J. W. Dunkerley : 
“The Scab Diseases of Potatoes,’ by Mr. T. G. B. Osbourn: ‘ Evolution 
of Plants,’ by Mr. C. Lambert; ‘ The Ultra-Microscope and Dark Ground 
Illumination,’ by Prof. W. W. H. Gee; ‘Charles Darwin: his Life and 
Work,’ by Mr. H. G. Willis; and ‘ A Few Notes on Glycerin,’ by Mr. C. 
Turner. Several of the papers are illustrated. There is also a report of 
the Society’s rambles. 
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