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study the birds before his day’s work started. He was also a 
good antiquary, and had a thorough knowledge of the past and 
present history of the Harrogate district. For several years he 
was the constant companion of the late William Grange, whose 
‘History of the Forest of Knaresborough’ is well known. In 
connection with this work Mr. Farrah helped a good deal. 
His ‘collecting’ was restricted to books, and of these he had 
a very fine library. He purchased most books of any importance, 
and if, from the nature of the contents, or the way they were 
produced, they particularly appealed to him, he would obtain 
two copies ‘in order to encourage their publication.’ 
Since he retired from business some time ago he had not 
enjoyed the best of health. He recently purchased two farms 
at Felliscliffe, and has since spent most of his time there. Upon 
these he has expended considerable sums of money, and his 
work there accounts for his absence from the excursions of the 
Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union during the past two years. In 
letters to the undersigned, he has frequently expressed a hope 
that the farms would soon be as they should be, when he would 
again join in the rambles. But this is not to be. 
He was married three times, and leaves behind a son and a 
daughter. 
Many a Yorkshire Naturalist has cause to regret the death 
of John Farrah. Ta 
The Proceedings of the Liverpool Geological Society for 1906-7 
(Vol. X., pt. 3) have been received. In addition to the list of members, etc., 
there are three useful papers, viz., ‘The Storeton Find of 1906,’ by H. C. 
Beasley ; ‘Desert Conditions and the Origin of the British Trias,’ by J. 
Lomas ; and ‘ Analyses of Ludlow Rocks,’ by T. Mellard Reade and Philip 
Holland. The first is Mr. Beasley's presidential address, in which the 
recent exposure in the foot-print bed at Storeton is fully described. Mr. 
Lomas's admirable paper compares recent desert conditions with those 
obtaining in Triassic times. In the last paper attention is drawn to the 
intimate relations between the chemical constitution of rocks, their external 
forms, the soils resulting therefrom, and the vegetation they support. 
Gowan’s Nature Books, Nos. 6-15. Gowan and Cray, Glasgow. 
6d. each net. This excellent series of illustrated hand-books, which was 
referred to in our columns for November last (p. 378), has been added to by 
volumes dealing with ‘ Fresh-water Fishes’; * Toadstools at Home’; ‘Our 
Trees and how to know them’ ; ‘ Wild Flowers at Home’ (3rd series) ; ‘ Life 
in the Antarctic’; Reptile Life’; ‘Sea-shore Life’; ‘Birds at the Zoo’; 
‘Animals at the Zoo’; and ‘Some Moths and Butterflies and their Eggs.’ 
Each of these contains some dozens of carefully selected photographs, 
beautifully reproduced, and accompanied by suitable letterpress. Whilst 
each contains many charming photogr aphs, perhaps the one which appeals 
to us most is No. 10, dealing with ‘Life in the Antartic.’ In this are 
reproduced many of the photographs of birds which were shown by Mr. 
Eagle Clarke at the York Meeting of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union. 
The low price at which these books are sold, at once indicates that there 
must be a large demand for them. They certainy Warrant it. 
Naturalist, 
