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MUSEUM NEWS, ETC. 
The Twenty-fifth Annual Report of the Free Libraries and Museum 
Committee of Great Yarmouth includes several illustrations of stuffed 
birds in the museum, including a group of Pallas’ Sand Grouse. 
The Report of the Librarian and of the Museums Sub-Committee of 
Beverley for the year ending March 31st, 1t9r1, has been received, and 
contains particulars of the additions during the year. The Beverley 
Museum was opened to the public during the year. 
The Warrington Museum continues to issue its useful leaflets containing 
particulars of its recent additions, which vary from Frogbits and Sheep- 
ticks, Bramblings and Beavers, to Netsuke and paintings. The report 
for the year ending June 30th, 1911, also is a record of a good year’s work. 
The Sixth Annual Report of the Manx Museum shews an excellent 
year’s work at that institution, and also has a satisfactory account of the 
steps that have been taken to protect the island’s ancient monuments. 
The Report is illustrated, and can be obtained for sixpence from Messrs. 
G. & L. Johnson, Douglas. 
From Stoekport we have received the combined Reports of the Librarian, 
Parks Superintendent and Museum Curator. There have been fourteen 
visits to the museum paid by schools during the year. Several additions 
have been made to the various departments, a list of which is given. We 
wonder how many museums.dare put a column for ‘how acquired’ as is 
done in honest Stockport ? 4 
The Annual Report for 1910 of the Searborough Philosophical Society, 
which includes the records of the Searborough Field Naturalists’ Society, 
is to hand. Both societies seem to be working ahead. The year’s reports 
on the club’s work include reports by W. J. Clarke on Vertebrate Zoology ; 
H. Witty on Lepidoptera; J. A. Hargreaves on Conchology; E. A. 
Wallis on Terrestrial Isopoda; J. Irving on Marine Zoology; E. R. Cross 
on Botany; A. E. Peck on Fungi; W. Pearson on Coleoptera ; A. Hibbert- 
Ware on Mycetozoa and on Geolog gy (Microscopical) ; and HG, Drake 
on Geology. The reports appear in the ‘order’ given. There is no 
recorder for misprints, or he would have had a busy time! The balance 
sheet is a great improvement upon that of previous years. 
From the Viking Club we hy ve received their Saga Book, Vol. VII. 
Part I., which contains a numer of valuable papers, including ‘ Norse 
Elements in English Dialects,’ by an American professor; ‘Finds and 
Excavations of Heathen Temples in Iceland,’ translated into English from 
the Norwegian; ‘ The Scandinavian Kingdom of Northumbria’; ‘ King 
Rialazre =) (Odal Orkney 73) INotesion the Battle of Largs’; and ‘ Minia- 
tures from Icelandic Manuscripts.’’ Some of the papers are well illustrated. 
The same club’s Year Book (Vol. II.) contains the official reports on 
the year’s work in the various sections and branches of the Club, and a 
lengthy list of queries, reviews, etc. The ‘reviews’ represent a valuable 
summary of the literature relating to northern lore, which has been pub- 
lished during the year. The society also publishes a valuable Old Lore 
Series, a miscellany. of Orkney, Shetland, Caithness, and Sutherland 
Records. No fewer than seven of these were published during 1911. We 
cannot give too much praise to this excellent series, which contains a 
field of information relating to the districts mentioned. The parts include 
notes on the folk-lore, old families, place-names, bibliography, Pictish 
towers, stone circles, sagas, sheep-marks, rhymes, authors, monuments, 
early visits, etc. It is astonishing what a large amount of useful material 
is published by the Viking Club in view of its comparatively small sub- 
scription. Mrs. A. W. Johnston is the energetic Honorary Secretary and 
Editor ; whilst the Editors of the ‘ Old Lore Series’ are Mr. A. W. John- 
ston‘and: Amy Johnston. 
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