384 Northern News. 



We should like to congratulate the Whitby Literary and Philosophical 

 Society on the publication of its Ninety -eighth Aiujital Report, which not 

 only contains a big list of additions by gift and purchase, but two inter- 

 esting papers ; ' Notes on Whitby's Water Supplies, ' by T . H. \\'oodwark, 

 and ' A Ford at Whitby,' by J. T. Sewell. ^ 



We have received ' Land-og vatna-lindyr a Islandi (Fauna mollus- 

 corum extramarinorum Islandia:') [i.e.. The non-marine molluscan fauna 

 of Iceland], by Hans Schlesch, reprinted from the Reports of the 

 Scientific Society of Iceland (35 pp.)- Iii this is a surprisingly large 

 number of references to notes in The Naturalist. 



No. 3 of the current issue of ' The Olicanian ' has a report of the 

 school natural history society, a paper on ' Moorland Vegetation,' by 

 J. L. Illingworth, and numerous other interesting items. For some 

 things we regret that Illingworth is leaving the school, but he has kindly 

 arranged that we shall see its interesting journal in the futui-e. 



We are glad to see from the syllabuses of the various Societies which 

 are sent to us that a distinct revival in interest is being taken in the 

 work of natural history Societies. The lists of lectures and excursions 

 are, in many cases, extraordinarily gratifying, and increases in member- 

 ship and in scientific work are being recorded up and down the country. 



Besides details of the various activities of the Society, the Annual 

 Report of the Manchester Microscopical Society for 1920 contains ' Alpine 

 and sub-Alpiiie plants of Switzerland,' by F. E. Weiss ; ' Sacculina and 

 its effects on the host species,' by W. M. Tattersall ; and reprints of notes 

 and records by the Society's members, from the Lancashire and Cheshire 

 Naturalist. 



British Birds for September contains, among much interesting matter, 

 notes on the Blackcap and Sparrow-hawk, on ' Black-eyed Susan ' — -(the 

 Gannet variety from the Fames, frequently referred to in The Naturalist) ; 

 Grasshopper-warbler nesting in Lincolnshire, the Great Spotted Wood- 

 pecker in Cumberland, and the status of the Arctic Tern in Lancashire 

 and the Fames. 



A certain Philosophical Society recently arranged with the Corporation 

 in the same city to take over its museum. After several meetings it 

 was decided to dissolve the old society, hand over its collections, and 

 then form a new society, which would reap certain benefits from the 

 Corporation. The old society was dissolved ; terms were arranged with 

 the Corporation ; but the Philosophers forgot to form a new Society ! 



The death is announced of Sir William Edward Garforth, LL.D., of 

 Snydale Hall, near Normanton. Sir William was well known throughout 

 the coalfields of Great Britain, and to engineers and coalowners on the 

 Continent, for his specialised knowledge of mining, his systematic 

 application of science to the industry, and his successful experiments to 

 ensure safe working underground. Throughout his career Sir William 

 took a keen interest in mining education and research. He was chairman 

 of the Mining Advisor}' Committee of the Leeds University, and was a 

 member of the Committee for over forty years. He occupied many 

 prominent positions on other bodies, including the presidential chair of 

 the Yorkshire Geological Society. 



The Proceedings of the Liverpool Geological Society for 1920-21 have 

 recently been issued under the editorship of Mr. E. Montag. The papers 

 include Mr. W. T. Walker's Presidential Address entitled ' Some Ad- 

 vances in Geological Science ' [' The formation of minerals and rocks ' 

 in the ' contents.']. ' Microscopic Study of the Carboniferous Limestone 

 in North Wales,' by T. A. Jones ; ' Homoeomorpliy in Ammonites,' by 

 E. Neaverson ; ' Certain Numeral Deposits in Stratified Kocks, with 

 Special Reference to the Carboniferous and Trias,' by H. W. Greenwood ; 

 ' Excursion to Breiddens and Oswestry,' by E. D. Nicholson ; and a use- 

 ful ' List of papers, etc., on the Geology of the Country round Liverpool 

 from 1910 to 1919 ' is contributed by W. Hewitt. 



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