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PROCEEDINGS OF PROVINCIAL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



The Annual Report of the Hull Geographical Society shews that the 

 Society has 49 members, a balance in hand of ;^8 i6s. yd., and has had three 

 works given to form the nucleus of a library. 



The Thirty Ninth Annual Report of the Peterborough Natural History, 

 Scientific and Archaeological Society contains a long list of objects added to 

 the Peterborough Museum during the year. It is a pity the list is not 

 arranged in same order. 



In the Proceedings of the Bristol Naturalists' Society (4th Ser., Vol. II., 

 Part III.), Mr. W. H. Wickes has an illustrated paper on ' Beechite,' and 

 in Vol. III., Part I., Professor J. H. Priestley writes on ' The Pelophilous 

 Formation of the Left Bank of the Severn Estuary.' 



Part V. of Mr. S. S. Buckman's Yorkshire Type Ammonites has appeared 

 (Wesley & Sons, 3s. 6d.) and contains a copy of the original description 

 and photograph, as well as detailed particulars of Ammonites sulcatus, 

 scovesbyi, acitticayinatus, compactilis, whitbiense, lectiis and miles. 



In the Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Vol. XVI., 

 Part IV.), Mr. H. Hamshaw Thomas records the discovery of the spores 

 and sporangia of two common Bathonian Ferns, Conioptevis hymenophyl- 

 loides and Todites ivilliamsoni, in the Jurassic rocks of Yorkshire. 



Vol. III. of The Year Book of the Viking Club for 1910-11 (82 pp., 2/6. 

 University of London), includes a detailed report on the Club's year's 

 work, and of its district secretaries. It also includes many notes, reviews, 

 etc. Altogether it is a good report of a good year's work of a good society. 



The Caradoc and Severn Valley Field Club issues an annual ' Record of 

 Bare Facts,' No. 20 being before us. It includes ' a list of the more note- 

 worthy observations ' made by the members of the club, under the heads 

 of Botany, Zoology, [Vertebrates], Entomology, Geology, and Meteorology. 



The ' Annual Report of Proceedings under the Salmon and Freshwater 

 Fisheries Acts, etc., etc., for the year 1910' has recently appeared (Board 

 of Agriculture and Fisheries, 191 1. xx. +53, pp., 4I.), and contaims 

 particulars of the various regulations in force with regard to fishing in the 

 different districts, quantities caught, prices realized, etc. 



The Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History, etc.. Society, has 



published ' Addenda and Corrigenda to the Birds of Dumfriesshire,' being 

 a paper read as his Presidential Address to the society by Hugh S. Glad- 

 stone, M.A., F.R.S.E., etc. (31 pp.). Those who have Mr. Gladstone's 

 excellent volume should make a point of securing this supplement. 



The Annual Report and Transactions of the Manchester Microscopical 

 Society for 1910 (82 pp., 1/6) is an excellent recor I. In addition to the 

 details of the Society's work, tiie publication contains papers on ' Colour in 

 Animals,' by Prof. S. J. Hiclcson ; ' Spirogyra,' by C. Turner; 'Ants,' 

 by H. G. Willis; ' British Social Wasps,' by A. Newton, etc. 



Part XVI. of the Transactions of the Leeds Geological Association for 



1910-11 (41 pp. and plates, 2/-), have been published, under the editorship 

 of Mr. E. Hawkesworth. Besides the reports of meetings and excursions, 

 these contain ' Notes on the Iron-ore Deposits of Lapland,' by ' Nettle 

 ton ' ; ' Cavities in the Magnesian Limestone,' by ' Guy ' ; ' The Cleveland 

 Dyke ' (plates), by ' King ' ; ' Alluvial Deposits at Woodlesford,' 

 ' Gilligan and Hummel ' ; ' The Lithology of the Millstone Grits,' ' Picker- 

 ing ' ; ' Permian Boulders at Roth well Haigh,' ' Hawkesworth.' It 

 will be seen that the papers are mostly local in character, and they certainly 

 represent an excellent year's work. Amongst the fossils and other objects 

 exhibited at the meeting on October 21st, 19 10, we notice ' The Staff of 

 the Geological Department of the University.' Tiiis was evidently a 

 special show, as it is mentioned in large type ! 



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