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NORTHERN NEWS. 



Mr. T. A. Coward has been elected president of the Manchester Literary 

 and Philosophical Society. 



Dr. R. R. Gates has been appointed to the University Chair of Botany 

 at King's College, London. 



We hear that Prof. Kendall's services are to be retained by the Leeds 

 University for another year. 



The death is announced of W. Warde Fowler, of Oxford, author of 

 several popular books on birds. 



Mr. James E. Bedford, F.G.S., of Leeds, has been elected a member of 

 the Society of Antiquaries of London. 



The Linnean gold medal of the Linnean Society — its highest award — 

 has been presented to Dr. Dukenfield H. Scott. 



The Public Libraries, Art Gallery and Museums Committee of Roch- 

 dale are to be congratulated on issuing their 50th Annual Report. 



D. M. S. Watson describes Eugyrinus wildi A. S. W., a Branchiosaur 

 from the Lancashire Coal measures, in No. 680 of The Geological Magazine. 



We see that a ' Waggoner's Barrel, oak, with four iron hoops, 8 ft. 

 2 inches by 8| diam.', has been presented to the Warrington Museum. 

 Some barrel. 



The Seventieth and Seventy-first Annual Reports of the Ipswich 

 Museum have been received, and. include references to the additions to 

 the collection and to changes in the staff. 



' Morphogenesis of Brachiopoda : Reticularia lineata (Martin), 

 Carboniferous Limestone,' by W. E. Alkins, appears in Memoirs Man- 

 chester Literary and Philosophical Society, Vol. LXIV., pt. i. 



Mr. T. A. Coward and Mr. J. Wilfred Jackson, whose work in con- 

 nexion with the Museum at the Manchester University is well-known, 

 have recently received the degree of M.Sc. at the Manchester University. 



The trustees of the British Museum have appointed Dr. W. T. Caiman, 

 D.Sc, F.R.S., deputy-keeper in the Department of Zoology. Dr. Caiman 

 has been in charge of the Crustacea at the Natural History Museum since 

 1904. 



The arrangements are well in hand in connection with the British 

 Association Meeting at Edinburgh, September 7th -14th next, and already 

 announcements have been made of many important papers and dis- 

 cussions. 



Besides reports of the Club's excursions. The Proceedings of the Liver- 

 pool Naturalists' Field Club for 1920, recently issued, contain an 

 illustrated presidential address by J. J. Lewis, on ' English Church 

 Woodwork.' 



D. E. Minnick (Journ. Experimental Zool., XXXIII., 1921, No. 1) 

 has found that Vanissid butterflies (F. atalavta and V. antiopa) have 

 hitherto unknown sense organs in the tarsi of their four walking legs by 

 which they can distinguish between e.g., apple juice and water or salt 

 solution and sugar solution. 



' A First Record for Great Britain of the Greater Snow Goose,' by 

 Dr. W. Eagle Clarke ; ' Small Birds in the Garden,' by G. Bolam ; 

 ' The Walrus in British Waters,' by J. Ritchie ; 'Scottish Bark Beetles,' 

 by J. W. Munro ; and ' Diptcra Nematoccra from Arran, etc.,' by F. W. 

 Edwards, appear in The Scottish Naturalist for May. 



The abstracts of papers read and annual reports of the Brighton and 

 Hove Natural History and Philosophical Society, for 1919-1920, 

 recently issued, contain a portrait and memoir of the late J. C. Hasel- 

 wood ; Aid. C. Thomas-Stanford, M.P., on ' The Appreciation of Natural 

 Scenery ' ; Mr. H. S. Toms in a note states that Helix Mcmoralis (sic.) 

 ' formed a regular article of diet among the Romano-Britons of Wilts, and 

 Dorset.' The ' evidence ' in favour of this statement would be of 

 interest. 



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