Notes and Comments. 



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with the discussion which took place relating to extension work 

 of local Scientific Societies. It is of interest to recall that the 

 Manchester Microscopical Society was the leading Society 

 with its scheme of extension lectures, Mr. Mark Sykes being 

 one of the founders of that section of the Society's work. 



SIR ARCHIBALD GEIKIE. 



We are honoured in being permitted to present to our 

 readers a charming portrait of the Past President of the 

 Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, Sir Archibald Geikie, O.M., 



K.C.B., F.R.S., etc. The portrait has not previously been 

 published, and in Sir Archibald's opinion, is the best he has 

 ever had taken. It was secured by an amateur while Sir 

 Archibald was working in bis study. 



HETERANGIUMS OF THE BRITISH COAL MEASURES. 



In the Linnean Society's Journal — Botany, for November, 

 Dr. D. H. Scott has a detail paper on the above subject, in 

 which he describes Heterangium shorense, a new species from 

 Shore, Lancashire, found by Messrs. J. and J. Lomax ; H. 

 iilicBoides, from the Halifax hard beds ; H. Lomaxii, and 

 varieties from Lancashire ; and H. minimum, a new species 

 from Dulesgate, found by Mr. James Lomax. The paper is 



1918 Feb. 1. 



