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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



BRITISH BOTANICAL ASSOCIATION. 



An Association wliich aims at jjroinoting the study of Nature, 

 as represented by plant life, throughout all classes of the 

 community, is one which should certainly command the interest 

 and support of readers of ' The Naturalist.' The British 

 Botanical Association of York has carried on a very useful 

 work for some years in an unobtrusive, but by no means 

 inefficient manner by Dr. A. H. Burtt, and has steadily gained 

 for itself a reputation in all parts of the country amongst those 

 engaged in the teaching and study of Botany. More recently 

 the sympathies of influential naturalists and educationalists 

 have been enlisted in an effort to broaden the constitutional 

 basis of the undertaking, and to place the work on a sound 

 financial footing, and make it still more efificient and permanent. 

 We have a personal acquaintance with the work, and, in its 

 newly-acquired character of a public institution, wish it the 

 success and general support which it deserves. With its 

 already widely-extended influence, this should soon be assured. 

 Information in regard to ni'ernbership and other details can be 

 obtained from the Director and Secretar3% Dr. A. H. Burtt, 

 the Laboratory, Holgate, York. 



THE SHEFFIELD HANDBOOK.* 



^^'hen the British Association last visited Sheffield, in 1879, 

 the ' Guide to the Town and District ' consisted of viii. + 

 160 pages, 6h inches X 4 inches, with an uncoloured map 

 (j inch to I mile). The present volume contains iv. -f 502 

 pages, 7J inches X4I inches, and is accompanied by a coloured 

 contoured physical map (| inch to i mile), a geological map 

 (I inch to I mile), and a plan of Sheffield (2i inches to i mile). 

 The description of the archaeology of the district occupies 

 92 pages, that of the modern city 103 pages (including 5 on 

 meteorology), and the account of the industries of the district, 

 including 45 pages on Armour and Ordnance, 154 pages. 

 ' The Geology of the District,' by Messrs. B. Hobson, C. Johns 

 and C. Bradshaw, is described in 42 pages, including a Biblio- 

 graphy of 50 items. ' The Botany of the District ' (accom- 



* British Association, Sheffield, 1910. Handbook and Guide to Sheffield 

 prepared . . .under the direction of the Local Publications Sub-Committee. 

 \V. S. Porter. M.D., Editor ; A. T. Watson, Hon. Sec. ; J. W. Northend, 

 Printer, Sheffield, 1910. 



1910 Sept. I. 



