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NOTES AND COM! 



G. W. LAMPLUGH, F.R.S. 



All naturalists will join us in sincerely congratulating a 

 past-president of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, Mr. G. W. 

 Lamplugh, F.R.S., F.G.S., on his election as President of the 

 Geological Society of London, in succession to Dr. Alfred Harker, 

 another of our past-presidents, a post previously held by our 

 last President, Sir Archibald Geikie, O.M., K.C.B. Mr. 

 Lamplugh's election is a fitting answer to the subject of his 

 presidential address to the Union, which was ' The Amateur 

 Spirit in Scientific Research ' (see The Naturalist, 1906, pp. 71- 

 80). Mr. Lamplugh was, and is, essentially an amateur. While 

 living at Bridhngton, years ago, he published a series of 

 valuable papers on the Glacial and Cretaceous Geology of 

 that District, his paper on the Speeton Clays being a classic, 

 and his ' Drifts of Flamborough Headland ' has been rightly 

 styled one of the gems of glacial literature. These two papers 

 appeared in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 

 but the Proceedings of the Yorkshire Society have contained 

 much of his work, and The Naturalist has frequently been 

 favoured by notes from his pen. He joined the Geological 

 Survey in 1892, and was appointed Assistant Director in 1914. 

 He has been responsible for the Memoir on the Geolog}^ of the 

 Isle of Man, as well as valuable work in Ireland, the Midlands, 

 and the Weald District. His paper on the Crush Conglomerates 

 of the Isle of Man opened an entirely new chapter in the 

 Geological History in these Islands. We trust he may long be 

 spared to carry out the useful work he is doing. 



LIVERPOOL BOTANISTS. 



The Proceedings of the Liverpool Botanical Society for the 

 years 1912-15, have recently been issued (40 pages), the frontis- 

 piece to which is a portrait of Mr. A. A. Dallman, who was 

 President 1914-5. There are notes on the South Lancashire 

 Flora, and details of the various exhibits, etc., at the meetings 

 between January, 1912 and December, 1915, which contain 

 many interesting botanical records. There is a substantial 

 list of additions to the Library, a list of members, and an ' In 

 Memoriam ' notice of Mrs. J. A. Wheldon, wife of. a former 

 president. We certainly think our Liverpool friends are wise 

 in recording their work in this way. 



THE HEDGEHOG. 



We have recently obtained a copy of a ' new edition ' of 

 Oliver Goldsmith's ' History of the Earth, and Animated 

 Nature,' printed at York by Thomas Wilson & Son, High 

 Ousegate, 1808. It is in four volumes, each of which contains 

 over 400 pages and numerous quaint plates. In Volume II., 

 pp. 307-310, is a description of ' The Hedgehog, or Prickly 

 Kind.' The author places the hedgehogs ' in a class by them- 



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