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in estuarine beds near the mouths of rivers, where organic 
accummulations of this nature might, one would think, be more 
likely to occur than in the angulatus zone above it. 
I am sending characteristic specimens of this concretion to 
the Museums at Hull and Lincoln, which latter, to my great 
content, is now an accepted fact. May it, in course of time, 
imitate the former in its usefulness ! 
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Messrs. Charles Griffin and Co. have issued the twenty-third annual 
Year Book of Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain 
and Ireland: a record of the work done in Science, Literature, and Art 
during the Session 1905-6 by numerous Societies and Government Institu- 
tions. Not only does it contain useful information in reference to the 
various scientific societies—large and small—throughout the kingdom, but 
what is of more value to working naturalists—lists of the papers read at the 
meetings and published in the transactions of these societies. 
Quarterly Record of Additions, No. XIX.—Notes on a collection 
of Roman Antiquities from South Ferriby in North Lincolnshire 
(two parts). Guide to the Municipal Museum (second edition). (Hull 
Museum Publications 37-40). 
These latest issues sufficiently prove that the high standard of excellence 
set at the initiation of the series is being maintained. A cursory examination 
of them will show the value of making a museum a municipal institution. 
Most people would imagine that after nearly five years of such strenuous 
work as the Curator has done at this museum, the number of additions as 
well as their comparative interest would decline. The latest quarterly 
record would quickly disabuse any such notion. It opens with a highly 
interesting account of Leather Jacks, illustrated by figures of specimens now 
in the museum ; and is followed by a comprehensive sketch of relics of our 
grandfathers’ days. As we look at the figures of moulds for ginger bread, 
we are carried back to our school-boy days when birds and beasts, such as 
could only exist in the Never-Never Land, ornamented with gold leaf, were 
not uncommon objects in old dames’ windows. Whether this is a proof of 
a greater conservatism in the West Riding than in the East, or merely 
indicates that the writer is contemporanecus with the grandfather of the 
author of this pamphlet, we need not stay to consider. It is enough to know 
that in Hull, at anyrate, these vanishing land-marks of our progressive 
civilisation are being zealously collected and preserved. Our grandchildren 
will have cause to put a much higher value upon them than perhaps it is 
possible for us to do, for they will never have that familiarity which the 
proverb tells us breeds contempt. 
The two pamphlets relating to Roman Antiquities from South Ferriby 
are very valuable indeed, and deserve careful perusal. Beyond stating that 
these antiquities are mainly brooches and the like, there is no need to say 
more. Without the pamphlets themselves, any notice would be inadequate. 
The second addition of the guide is a distinct improvement on the first, 
except in one particular, vzz., the absence of the index. The descriptive 
matter has increased from 35 to 40 pages, and a comparison of the plans in 
the different editions will show more eloquently than words how much the 
contents of the Museum have been added to. With this in hand, a visitor 
to the Museum will make a more intelligent survey of its contents. One 
interesting fact deserves special mention. We refer to the varied 
nationalities of the visitors. Ina very limited period Denmark, The United 
States, Canada, Norway, and Australia were each represented, in addition 
to other visitors from widely different portions of our own country. In this 
way the excellent institution which Mr. Sheppard directs has a sphere of 
influence co-extensive with the globe.—E. G. B. 
Naturalist, 
