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For the second edition of Baker's ' North Yorkshire,' Mr. 

 Slater undertook the preparation of the section devoted to 

 mosses and hepatics, in connection with which I paid many 

 pleasant visits to his home at Newbiggin, Malton. That work 

 was issued in 1906 and occiipied the whole of part 33 — nearly 

 300 pages — of the Union's Transactions. It not only contained 

 particulars of the distribution of 418 mosses (over a hundred 

 more than were given in the first edition of 1863), but a list 

 of over 120 hepatics — almost entirely new. Mr. Slater also 

 recorded many new localities, and considerably added to the 

 value of his work by preparing an extensive account of the 

 literature of the subject. 



Mr. Slater took a prominent part in founding the Malton 

 Naturalists' Society in 1880, and ever since has taken much 

 interest in the society's work, has held various offices in con- 

 nection with it, given lectures, and materially assisted in the 

 formation and arrangement of its museum. In recent years 

 his health prevented him from carrying out his work. His 

 death is a serious loss to Yorkshire science, and the naturalists 

 at Malton Will have difficulty in finding any one to take his 

 place. — T. S. 



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The Journal of the Institution of Petroleum Technologists (Vol. IV. 

 No. 13), among many other papers, contains one ' On the Oil Prospects of 

 the British Isles,' by W. H. Dalton, F.G.S., the Society's Editor and 

 Librarian. 



An order has been made suspending, until the 1st day of June next, the 

 Wild Birds Protection (East Riding of Yorkshire) Order of the n22d 

 February, 19 16, in so far as it prohibits the taking or destroying of the eggs 

 of the blackheaded gull. 



The Manchester Museum Publication No. 80, is a reprint of Mr. Herbert 

 Bolton's paper on the ' Mark Stirrup ' Collection of Fossil Insects from 

 the Coal Measures of Central France. No. Si is the Museum's Annual 

 Report for 1916-17, and contains an excellent record of the useful work 

 accompUshed in that institution. 



No. 24 of The Journal and Transactions of the Leeds Astronomical 

 Society, edited by Chas. T. Whitmell, was published in January (102 pp., 

 2S. 6d.). It contains an enormous number of astronomical notes by the 

 various members of the Society, as well as an appreciation of Sir William 

 Herschel by Miss C. A. Barbour. Various contributions to other journals 

 are here reprinted, so that the Society's publication may be said to contain 

 a fair record of the members' work. 



The Proceedings of Birmingham Natural History and Philosophical 

 Society, Vol. XIV., part 2, edited by Prof. W. S. Boulton (pp. 57-112, 3/-) 

 have been published. They contain the following valuable papers : — 

 ' Natural History Records of the Midlands ; A survey of the Flora of 

 East Worcestershire, by John Humphreys ; Some effects of the Poison 

 of the Wasp Sting upon the Heart of a Frog, by Prof. E. Wace Carlier ; 

 The Downtonian of South Staffordshire, by W. Wickham King and W. j'. 

 Lewis ; On Blattoid and other Insect Remains from the South Stafford- 

 shire Coalnelds, by Herbert Bolton ; Mammalian Remains in the Glacial 

 Gravels at Stourbridge, by Prof. W. S. Boulton. We are glad to find that 

 this old established Society is still continuing its useful contributions to 

 science. 



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