390 Northern News. 



care the magazine increased in circulation and importance, 

 and there are few English geologists who have not contributed 

 to it under his firm and friendly rule. As an editor he was 

 minutely exact in supervising text and illustrations, and the 

 experience he had gained in the routine of office work enabled 

 him to conduct the business side of the undertaking with a 

 success not often associated with scientific journals. 



HONOURS. 



Many honours justly accrued to him. In 1873 he became 

 a Fellow of the Royal Society ; he was an Hon. LL.D. of St. 

 Andrews, Murchison Medallist and President of the Geological 

 Society, President of the Geological Section of the British 

 Association at Manchester in 1887, one of the founders and 

 first President of the Malacological Society, President of the 

 Palaeontographical Society, and of the Royal Microscopical 

 Society, and Vice-President of the Zoological Society', in whose 

 affairs he took an active share for many years. 



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Sir Edward AUerton Brotherton, Bart., has given /20,ooo to the 

 Leeds Universit}^ for the development of bacteriological research. 



It is reported in the daily press that, when deerstalking on the 

 Dunrobin Castle estate of the Duke of Sutherland, Lord Desborough 

 killed his i,oooth stag. 



The Earl of Ducie, whose death is recently announced, was not only 

 the ' father of the House of Lords,' but also the father of the Geological 

 Society of London, being the senior Fellow at his death. 



In mid -October a fisherman at Bridlington, while fishing with hook 

 and line in the bay, caught a seal weighing between three and four stones. 

 The seal had swallowed a whiting which had been hooked. 



We should like to refer our botanical friends to a valuable paper on 

 ' Plant nomenclature : some suggestions,' in No. 702 of The Journal of 

 Botany. One good suggestion is that ' all trivials should be spelt with 

 a small initial letter." 



Among the numerous valuable natural history publications in the 

 Bergens Museum Aarbok, 1918-19, i-ecently to hand, are ' Notes on 

 Li'.varus imperialis Rap., a Fish New to the Fauna of Norway,' by Sigurd 

 Johnsen. We should like to congratulate the author on his excellent 

 English. 



We have received a well prepared ' Annual Report of the (iresham's 

 School Natural History Society '(14 pp.), which reflects on the enthusiasm 

 of the scholars at Gresham's, in the way of Natural History. This 

 appears to be the Third Report of this Society, and certainly its pub- 

 lication is justified, and will probably greatly benefit the members. 



The Botanical Society and Exchange Club of tlie British Isles has 

 issued its I^eport for 1920, by the Secretary, G. C. Druce (Vol. VI., pt. 

 I, pp. 1-208, 10/-), and also its Report for 1920 of the Botanical Exchange 

 Club, by G. C. Brown (Vol. VI.' Pt. 2, pp. 209-259, 5/-). These pub- 

 lications cannot be ignored by students of the English flora. 



Co.stermongers and others are warned by public notices in Middlesex 

 that it is now an offence to sell plants or rot)ts attacked by Eriosonia 

 lavigerum Hausm., Nygniia Phoeorrhoea Dan., Euproctis chryssorrhoea, 

 Leptobyrsa Stepliaiiitis rhododendri Horv., Sphocrotheca nwrsuvae, 

 Synchytrium evdobioticum . We wonder what the coster's names for 

 these diseases are ! 



Naturalist 



