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took part in the investigations of the underground waters of the 

 Ingleborough area, and was of much assistance in connection 

 with the pubUcation of the scientific results obtained. He was 

 also greatly interested in the erratic boulders of the county, and 

 for several years was the secretary of the Yorkshire Boulder 

 Committee and compiled the annual reports ; finally summar- 

 ising the whole of the Yorkshire records in a valuable paper 

 on " The Ice- borne Boulders of Yorkshire,' which appeared 

 in The Naturalist for 1908. In connection with this he pre- 

 pared a large map upon which he indicated all the far-travelled 

 boulders recorded in Yorkshire. This is now framed and hung 

 in the Geological Gallery at the Hull Museum. In the ' Biblio- 

 graphy of Yorkshire Geology ' are particulars of about thirty 

 contributions from his pen — many of which appeared in 

 The Naturalist between 1894 and 1910, though the Proceedings 

 of the Yorkshire Geological Society, The Halifax Naturalist, 

 and the publications of the British Association, also preserve 

 some of his scientific work. 



During recent years his work as Chairman and General 

 Manager of the West Yorkshire Bank, as a Justice of the 

 Peace, as President and Treasurer of the Halifax Chamber of 

 Commerce, as a prominent Churchman and Freemason, and 

 in many other positions which he occupied, prevented him 

 from devoting much time to scientific pursuits, and, to the 

 regret of his fellow naturalists and geologists, his visits among 

 them became very few, though he was always interested in 

 their work. Many of us will miss this genial and straightfor- 

 ward man, and our sympathies go to his daughter, Mrs. V. W. 

 Wanklyn.— T. S. 



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We regret to hear of the death of Mr. S. Maples, President of the 

 Spalding Gentlemen's Society. 



The death is announced of Miss B. Lindsay, well known for her Zoo- 

 logical work in the Isle of Man and other districts. 



Mrs. and Miss Holt have given ;^2.ooo towards the equipment of the 

 new department of Geology, at the University of Liverpool. 



Some of the inhabitants of Darlington are taking steps to have a 

 Municipal Museum for the borough as soon as the war is over. 



We regret to record the death of Dr. L. Moysey of Nottingham, who 

 was on the hospital ship ' Glenart Castle,' when torpedoed, and was not 

 among the rescued. He was keenly interested in palaeontology, and the 

 Reports of the British Association contain details of his contributions on 

 the subject. A few weeks before his death he had given his fossil plants 

 to the University of Cambridge, and the fossil animal remains to the 

 Geological Survey. 



We much regret to notice the announcement of the death of George 

 Jennings Hinde, Ph.D., F.R.S., F.G.S. Dr. Hinde was born at Norwich 

 in 1839. He was an authority on Fossil Sponges, Radiolaria and Corals, 

 and was the author of many papers on these subjects. In 1883 he wrote 

 a Catalogue of Fossil Sponges in the British Museum, a large 4to volume, 

 which contains many excellent illustrations of specimens from the York- 

 shire Chalk, principally near Bridlington. 



1918 May 1. 



