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British Association. Previously he took a keen interest in the 

 work of the Leeds Geological Society. 



When he left Yorkshire in order to take charge of a church 

 in Birkenhead, Mrs. Carter and he were the recipients of 

 valuable presents which had been subscribed for by his 

 colleagues in the Yorkshire Geological Society, though he 

 continued for several years to render good service to the 

 society. 



Lower Carter was not so well known for his original investi- 

 gations in geology as he was for the able way in which he 

 summarised and followed up the work of others. He was of 

 considerable assistance in connexion with the work of recording 

 the erratic blocks of the county, with regard to the investiga- 

 tions on underground waters, and he also followed the work of 

 Prof. Kendall and others relating to old river courses, and wrote 

 some papers on the old channels of the Don and district. He 

 ■compiled a useful Classified Index of the first fourteen volumes 

 of the Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society (1839- 

 1902), and for many years contributed useful summaries of 

 the work of the Geological Section of the British Association, 

 to Nature and The Naturalist. In ' The Bibliography of 

 Yorkshire Geology' by the present writer, published by the 

 Yorkshire Geological Society in 1915, Lower Carter is respon- 

 sible for forty-one items, mostly short notes, between 1889 and 

 1914 ; these may be said to represent his contributions to 

 geological literature. 



For several years he was the minister at the Congregational 

 Church at Mirfield : he then went to a more important church 

 at Birkenhead, but after a short stay he went to London as 

 a teacher of geology, and as such was at the East London 

 College until he died. — T. S. 



The collection of Reptilian Footprints in Triassic Rocks made by Mr. 

 H. C. Beasley have found a permanent home in the Liverpool Museum. 



We have received from Charles Janet, a paper on ' Le Volvox,' pub- 

 lished at Limoges (149 pp.), which contains some remarkable diagrams ; 

 also a ' Note Preliminaire sur I'oeuf du Volvox globator ' (12 pp.), and a 

 paper on ' Sur la Phylogenese de I'orthobionte ' (72 pp.), with six tables 

 and eight plates ; as well as other matter. 



The University of Leeds has gratefully accepted a gift by Mr. W. 

 Denison Roebuck of a collection of microscopic slides and a library of books 

 upon the subject of Freshwater Alga\ as the nucleus of a specialist library 

 and collection of algje in general. These were the property of William 

 Harwell Turner, who died twelve months ago, and who, since his coming 

 to Leeds in 1877, had been one of the most active scientific workers in 

 the city until laid aside by a serious illness. The value of the gift is en- 

 hanced by the fact that many of the books are illustrated by coloured 

 drawings by Mr. Turner himself, he having been a talented natural 

 history draughtsman. The collections will be known as the ' Barwell 

 Turner Memorial,' and will be available for the use of students of 

 a.lgological science. 



1918 July 1. 



