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NORTHERN NEWS. 



' Potato Growing ' is the title of Leaflet, No. 173, distributed free by 

 the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 3 St. James' Square, London, 

 S.W. I. 



In an obituary notice in The Entomologist's Record for March, we learn 



that ' Mr. L. leaves a widow and one daughter, who is married to the 



Rev. , with whom all his friends will feel the deepest sympathy ' ! 



We notice the Belfast Museum is paying particular attention to Food 

 Economy and other matters which are being brought to the fore at the 

 present time, and in addition is issuing useful leaflets for distribution, 

 bearing on these subjects. 



Food Production leaflet No. 3^1, issued free by the Board of Agriculture 

 and Fisheries, deals with the Canning of Fruit and Vegetables. We 

 should evidently follow our American friends' advice and eat what we 

 can and can what we can't. 



The Darlington Evening Despatch for March 9th, contains an account 

 of some neolithic flint weapons found while digging allotments at Darling- 

 ton. We have since had these specimens submitted to us ; they are not 

 neolithic and not implements. 



The presidential address of Mr. William Pickup, entitled ' Mining 

 Education and Research in Lancashire : An Appeal for Wider Interest 

 and Greater Support,' appears in The Transactions of the Manchester 

 Geological and Mining Society, Vol. XXXV., Part 6. 



At the Anniversary Meeting of the Geological Society of London, the 

 Lyell Medal, together with a sum of £2$ was awarded to Mr. Henry Woods, 

 as an acknowledgement of the value of his researches in Palaeontology, 

 more particularly on the Fauna of the Cretaceous Period. 



The Council of the Geological Society of London has made the sixteenth 

 annual award of the Daniel Pidgeon Fund to James Arthur Butterfield, 

 M.Sc, F.G.S., Demonstrator in Geology in the University of Leeds, who 

 proposes to conduct researches in connection with the Conglomerates and 

 Sandstones underlying the Carbcniferous Limestone Series of the N.W. 

 of England. 



Messrs. Longman, Green & Co. have published a second edition of 

 Thorburn's beautiful volumes on ' British Birds,' the first edition of 

 which was noticed in these columns at the time. The remarkable series 

 of ' additions to the British Fauna,' principally made in Sussex, as well 

 as one or two records of a more reliable nature, have necessited two ad- 

 ditional plates, 80a and Sob, in order to bring the work up to date. These 

 plates, together with the accompanying letterpress, are also printed 

 separately as a supplementary part and can be obtained at 6/- net by 

 those requiring them in order to keep their volumes up to date. 



At the Annual Meeting of the British Ornithologists' Union, 

 Dr. W. Eagle Clarke, keeper of the Natural History Department of the 

 Royal Scottish Museum, was unanimously elected president for the 

 ensuing term of five years. One Northern naturalist has thus succeeded 

 another. Colonel Wardlaw Ramsay, in election to this honour, the blue 

 ribbon of British ornithology. Dr. Eagle Clarke's studies of bird-life, and 

 in particular of bird migration are well known, and his services to the 

 cause of ornithology are evidenced by the position he held on the British 

 Association Committee on Bird migration, for which he prepared the 

 final reports, as well as by his selection to serve on the Government 

 Departmental Committee, of the Home Office, which has at present under 

 revision the Wild Birds' Protection Acts. As an editor of The Scottish 

 Naturalist he is well known, and under his care the exhibited collection of 

 British birds in the Royal Scottish Museum has gained the reputation of 

 being the finest in existence. He has served in the capacity of Hon. 

 Secretary and President of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. 



Naturalist, 



