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has increased, it is evident that unless some measures are 
adopted to mitigate the smoke the disintegration will be even 
more rapid. We understand, however, that some of the larger 
firms are doing all they can in the desired direction. 
NEW PRESIDENT OF THE YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION. 
At the unanimous invitation of the Executive Committee of 
the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union, Dr. Wheelton Hind, F.G.S., 
F.R.C.S., has accepted the presidency of the Union for the 
forthcoming year. Dr. Hind is well-known throughout the 
country for his successful work amongst Carboniferous rocks, 
and in Yorkshire he has been unusually successful in identifyin, 
and tracing various zones in the Carboniferous limestone. This 
valuable Yorkshire work has been supplemented by researches 
amongst rocks of the same age in other parts of Britain, 
resulting in Dr. Hind being placed in the front rank of 
authorities on this interesting subject. He has also paid 
much attention to the detailed study of the neglected series of 
fossil bivalves occurring in coal measures, and he is the author 
.of monographs on Carboniferous mollusca published by the 
Paleontographical Society. In 1902 he was the recipient of a 
reward from the Lyall Geological Fund at the hands of the 
‘Geological Society of London, of which he has been a fellow 
for many years. Dr. Wheelton Hind’s excellent work in York- 
shire makes this selection of him as President of the county 
society most appropriate, and will doubtless result in even greater 
-attention being paid to the geological problems of the Car- 
boniferous period by the members of the Uhion. 
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The ‘ Hull Literary Club Magazine,’ recently published, contains abstracts 
_ of papers on ‘ The Migration of Birds,’ by Thomas Audas, and ‘The Roman, 
Angle, and Dane in East Yorkshire,’ by T. Sheppard. 
‘The Yorkshire Archzological Journal’ (part 75), recently issued, is 
_almost entirely devoted to an exhaustive and well-illustrated paper on 
‘Anglian and Anglo-Danish Sculpture in the North Riding of Yorkshire,’ 
by W. G. Collingwood, F.S.A. 
‘Fenland Notes and Queries’ (No. 75) contains an analysis of the Oxford 
Clay at Whittlesey. There is also a note on the composition of virgin fen 
- soil from Methw old Fen. This Sr posietee moisture 72.8%, organic vegetable 
matter 24.34, and mineral matter 2.97%. 
A ‘Note on two rare forms of Actinocamax from the English Upper 
. Chalk,’ by Dr. G. C. Crick, appears in the September ‘Geological Magazine.’ 
- One of the species. which Dr. Crick names, Acténocamax Blackmorez, is from 
near Salisbury, and the other is from Gravesend. 
The New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts still con- 
, tinues to issue its useful Bulletins. No. 64 has recently been received, and 
deals with the Tuna (Prickly Pear) as a food for man. It is written by 
Messrs. R. F. Hare and D. Griffiths, and is well illustrated. 
, 1907 December 1. 
