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NORTHERN NEWS. 



The late Anne Haworth lias left her residence, Hollins Hill, as a public 

 museum, art gallery and park, as well as ;^2S,ooo for the maintenance 

 thereof . 



The Annual Report of the Manchester City Art Gallery for 1919, 

 recently to hand, is admirably drawn up, and we have read it with great 

 interest. 



Sir Arthur Duckham writes on ' Coal as a Future Source of Oil Fuel 

 Supply,' in The Journal of the Institution of Petroleum Technologists for 

 January. 



An excellent portrait of the late F. Haverfield appears in The Journal 

 of the Chester, etc., Archaeological and Historic Society, X.S., Vol. XXIII., 

 recently issued. 



' A very large crystal of galena or quartz ' is announced among the 

 additions to our National Museum. Surely our authorities should know 

 which? Perhaps it's both. 



Part XXV. of S. S. Buckman's 'Type Ammonites,' has appeared, 

 but it contains no illustrations of Yorkshire specimens among the numerous 

 fine plates. There is also a good portrait of the author at the age of 46. 



The Transactions, etc., of the Eastbourne Natural History, etc., Society, 

 Vol. VIII., No. 29, contains abstracts of a very miscellaneous series of 

 papers, viz., Floral Mechanism, Dew Ponds, Clay, Francis Bacon, ' Car- 

 Bro " Printing Process, Quarries and Fish Stew ! Regional Survey, and 

 AUenby in Palestine. 



The principal Trustees of the British Museum have appointed Mr. 

 C. Tate Regan to be Keeper of Zoology, Mr. G. F. Herbert Smith to be 

 Assistant Secretary at the Natural History Museum, and iMr. Robert L. 

 Hobson and Mr. Reginald A. Smith to be Deputy Keepers in the Depart- 

 ment of British and Mediaeval Antiquities at Bloomsbury. 



We learn from The Yorkshire Post that an almost incalculable addition 

 to the ore seams of the rapidly developing iron and steel district of 

 Lincolnshire has just been discovered at Elsham, near Brigg. At con- 

 siderable expense a bore was put down near the Worlaby sidings, and 

 after many disappointments the ' Frodingham Bed ' has been reached 

 at a depth of 475 feet, and found to exist at a full thickness of 29ft. 6in. 



' Implements from Plateau Brick -earth at Ipswich,' by R. A. Smith, 

 appears in the Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, issued February 

 2ist. He concludes his paper by the question ' \^^^at say the Geologists ? ' 

 Speaking as one of them, and after having examined what is described 

 as a ' Diagram of Excavations,' (on page 5) we would rather not put 

 what we have to say in words for fear of offending the tender ears of Mr. 

 R. A. Smith ! 



Sheffield seems to be an odd place in many ways. We learn from the 

 press that ' The Sheffield City Council have appointed a new Chief 

 Librarian in the person of Mr. R. J. Gordon, of Rochdale, at a com- 

 mencing salary of ^^650.' They have al.so decided to give another chief 

 librarian £^2 los., ' presumably to come here and show Mr. Gordon how 

 to do it. The whole thing is purely fantastic. If Mr. Gordon is efficient, 

 why bring in the other man, and if he isn't efficient, why appoint him? ' 

 We must say we agree. 



In his March issue, the editor of Discovery entertains us. He seems 

 annoyed that in a certain scientific treatise, ' water divining,' one of the 

 subjects in which he is interested, is spoken of rather disrespectfully; 

 and he again tries to champion the cause of the ' dowser.' And, after 

 describing some card tricks, he tells us, ' To anyone who has performed 

 such experiments as these, time after time, there can be no doubt about 

 the existence of telepathy, and that it merits a place in the functions of 

 the unconscious mind . . . its exact method of action is as yet veiled 

 from us.' And so on. Discovery is a scientific journal, and on page 72 

 we read, ' Oh Lord, my God,' and so on. 



Naturalist 



