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NORTHERN NEWS. 



Dr. E. H. Griffiths has been elected general treasurer of the British 

 Association. 



Dr. J. Allen Howe, Curator of the Museum of Practical Geology, has 

 been appointed Assistant Director to the Geological Survey. 



Dr.W. E. CoUinge contributes a memoir on the' Terrestiral Isopoda of 

 Natal,' to Vol. IV., Pt. 2, of the Annals of the Natal Museum. 



Part 9 of Withcrby's ' Practical Handbook of British Birds," (pp. 1-80, 

 4/6 net) has appeared, and deals with the Swift, Nightjar, and Owls. 

 It is very well illustrated. 



Our contributor, Mr. James Meiklc Brown, writes on ' A new Termito- 

 philous Collembolan from West Africa,' in the Annals and Magazine of 

 Natural History for November. 



Dr. Leigh Page has a paper on ' The Principle of General Relativity 

 and Einstein's Theory of Gravitation,' in the Transactions of the Con- 

 necticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. XXIII., which he has kindly 

 sent to us. We must admit we have not read it. 



As Circular No. 4, the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies 

 has issued an elaborately illustrated account of the work of the ' Mosquito 

 Investigation Committee,' written by the Rev. T. W. Oswald-Hicks. 



The Report of the Council of the Natural History Society of North- 

 umberland, Durham, and Newcastle-on-Tyne, recently received, shows 

 evidence of good progress in connexion with the Society's Museum at 

 Newcastle, and there is a sub.stantial list of additions. 



We should like to congratulate the Geologists' Association on the 

 publication ot ' An Index to the Proceedings of the Geologists' Associa- 

 tion, Volumes XXI. to XXX., 1909-1919, with a Chronological List of 

 the longer Excursions,' by G. S. Sweeting, 44 pp., 5/-. It will be very 

 useful to workers. 



To mark the occasion of his presidency of the Iron and Steel Institute, 

 1920-192 1, a presentation was made at Redcar, recentl}^ to Dr. J. E. 

 Stead, F.R.S., by his past and present pupils and students. The presenta- 

 tion took the form of a water-colour portrait of himself, painted by Miss 

 Norah Fulcher, the well-known London artist. 



The Council of the Geological Society has this year made the following 

 awards : — Wollaston Medal (in duplicate). — Dr. John Home and Dr. 

 B. N. Peach. Murchison Medal. — Mr. E. S. Cobbold. Lyell Medal. — 

 Dr. E. de Margerie. Bigsby Medal. — Dr. L. L. Fermor. WoUastoii 

 Fund. — Dr. T. O. Bosworth. Murchison Fund. — Dr. Albert Gilligan. 

 Lyell Fund. — Professor H. L. Hawkins, and Mr. C. E. N. Bromehead. 



We are pleased to state that Messrs. W. H. Pearsall, M.Sc, P\L.S., 

 I Woodsley Terrace, Clarendon Road, Leeds, and F. A. Mason, F.R.M.S., 

 29 Frankland Terrace, Leopold Street, Leeds, have agreed to act as Hon. 

 Secretaries to the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. In this way the head- 

 quarters of the Union revert to Leeds, after having been diverted to Hull 

 and later to Huddersfield. We feel quite sure that under the guidance 

 of the new secretaries the Union will have a prosperous career. Letters 

 may be addressed to the Secretaries, Y.N.U.. at The University, Leeds. 



We regret to see the announcement of the death of Sir Lazarus Fletcher, 

 who, in 1909, succeeded Sir Ray Lankester as Director of the National 

 History Departments of the British Museum. He was born at Salford 

 in 1854. He accepted an a.ssistantship in the Department of Mineralogy 

 at the British Museum, succeeding to the Keepership in 1880, when he 

 was only 26 years old. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1889, 

 was awarded the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society in 191 2, and 

 received numerous honorary degrees and memberships from universities 

 and societies at home and abroad. His work during many years for 

 the Mineralogical Society, of which he was president from 1885 to 1888, 

 and thereafter secretary till 1909, was not the least of his unselfish 

 services to science. 



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