3.40 British Association News, etc. 
For obvious reasons the daily press did not give quite the prominence 
to the reports of the meetings of the British Association this year, as 
formerly. The Manchester Guardian and The Yorkshive Observer were 
in the front with reports and criticisms, and their efforts were much appre- 
ciated. : 
The Committee appointed to investigate the Lake Villages in the 
neighbourhood of Glastonbury gave a good account of its fifth season’s 
work. Details of many interesting relics are given, Classified under the 
heads of amber, bone, crucibles, baked clay, eyhite. metal, bronze, iron, 
lead and tin, glass beads, Kimeridge shale, antlers, spindle-whorls, flint, 
querns, stone, pottery, animal and human remains. 
Punch says: ‘ We always look to the British Association to provide 
sensations for September, and, though this September is in no need of 
such stimuli, here they are. The President of the Zoological Section 
describes the earliest forms of life on this planet as ‘“‘ specks or globules 
of a substance similar in its relations to chromatics.’’ From these—in 
time—sprang all our great men. Coming over with the Conqueror is no 
longer a boast of any value. The thing now is to have come in with the 
globules, so to speak.’ 
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In The Entomologist for August, Mr. W. J. Lucas reviews ‘ British 
Neuroptera in 1914.’ 
Leeds naturalists familiar with ‘The Eagle’ in a well-known Leeds 
thoroughfare, will have noticed that ‘the bird’ has been extinguished 
by a Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union Jack. 
Volume IV., part 2 of the Museum Bulletin issued by the National 
Museum of Science and Art, Dublin, contains an illustrated account of 
the domestic animals of Ireland; Notes on Boring Sponges, the Arm- 
strong Collection of Musical Instruments, and Old Pipes. 
The Annual Report of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society for 1914 is 
to hand, and is unusually bulky, being almost entirely occupied by a very 
valuable and well illustrated paper on ‘ The Ancient Painted Glass Windows 
in the Minster and Churches of the City of York,’ by Mr. George Benson. 
In the Report we notice that Mr. Oxley Grabham, the curator, arranged to 
take a series of tours around the museum and garden, but there was only 
an average attendance of six. 
Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Lit. and Phil. Soctety, 
Vol. LIX., pt. 1, have been issued, and contain the following memoirs of 
interest to our readers :—‘ The General Morphology of the Stock of 
Tsoetes lacustyis,’ by Prof. Wm. H. Lang; ‘ Variation in a Carboniferous 
Brachiopod, Reticularia lineata Martin,’ by Henry Day, B.Sc.; ‘ Note 
of Foggy Days in Manchester,’ by William C. Jenkins; ‘ Note on the 
Monthly Variation of Sunshine, ’ by Prof. W. W. Haldane Gee. Prof. 
Lang makes an interesting comparison between Isoetes and Carboniferous 
Plants, and Mr. Day gives some remarkable researches in the variation of 
Carboniferous Brachiopods, based on specimens from Castleton. 
We have received a valuable paper on ‘ “ Black Neck ’’ or Wilt Disease 
of Asters,’ which is reprinted from The Annals of Applied Biology, by 
Wilfrid Robinson, M.Sc., Lecturer in Economic Botany, Manchester 
University. -From his summary we gather that the tissues of asters 
attacked by the wilt disease always contain the mycelium of a species 
of Phytophthora; this fungus was isolated and grown in pure culture on 
various media. The sporangia show most of all the characters described 
by De Bary for Phytophthora omnivora, but after the discharge of zoo- 
spores the stalk of the sporangium grows through and produces a second 
and even a third sporangium within the first. This proliferation has not, 
as far as is known, been previously described for any species of Phytopthora. 
Naturalist, 
