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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 
HONORARY DEGREES FOR YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS. 
It must be very gratifying to the Yorkshire Naturalists’ 
Union to find. that its work has been so greatly recognised by 
the Leeds University. From the Yorkshire Observer for May 
20th we learn that at the Court of the Leeds University held on 
May 19th, the Pro-Chancellor announced that the committee 
concerned had decided to confer honorary degrees upon: the 
following gentlemen :—D.Lit.—The, Rev. Charles Hargrove, 
M.A., and Mr. Philip Wicksteed, of Leeds, LL.D.—Dr. D. 
Forsyth, M.A., D.Sc., head master of the. Leeds Central High 
School, who has exerted considerable influence in developing 
the national policy in regard to secondary education. D.Sc.— 
Mr. Harold Wager, F.R.S., an expert on fungi. M.Sc.—Mr. 
Thomas Sheppard, “l.G:S.,°F K:G:S- S.A." (Scot), director 
of the Hull Museums, and president of the Yorkshire Natural- 
ists’ Union in 1914; Mr. J. W. Taylor, a former president of 
the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union ; Mr. T. W. Woodhead, Ph.D., 
F.L.S., hon. secretary of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union and 
head of the natural history department of the Huddersfield 
Technical College ; M1. T. H. Nelson, a prominent member of 
the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union and an expert in ornithology ; 
Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, for many years hon. secretary and 
treasurer of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union; Mr. John 
Wilkinson, of Leeds, well known as the blind botanist. It was 
fitting, Mr. Lupton remarked, that the excellent amateur work 
rendered to science by the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union should 
be recognised by the conferring of honorary degrees-upon a 
few representative members. The Court formally confirmed 
the action of the committee, and fixed upon July 3rd as the 
degree day. 
HONOUR FOR A LEEDS PROFESSOR. 
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New 
York have awarded the Barnard gold medal to Professor W. H. 
Bragg, F.R.S., Cavendish Professor of Physics in the University 
of Leeds, and his son, Mr. W. L. Bragg, Fellow of Trinity College, 
Cambridge, and a member of the college staff, at present 
holding a commission in the Leicestershire R.H.A. (T.F.), for 
their work on X-rays and crystals. The medal is awarded 
every five years for ‘meritorious service to science,’ on the 
recommendation of the National Academy of Sciences of the 
United States. The previous recipients have been Lord 
Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay, Professor von Rontgen, 
Professor Henri Becquerel, and Professor Sir Ernest Rutherford. 
-MR. W..N. CHEESMAN, J.P. 
At the invitation of the Executive Committee of the 
Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union, Mr. W. Norwood Cheesman, J.P., 
of Selby, has accepted the Presidency of the Union for 1916. 
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