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PROCEEDINGS OF PROVINCIAL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



The Journal of the Chester Archaeological Society, Vol. XVIIL, con- 

 tains an account of ' Parkgate : an old Cheshire Port,' and ' An Ancient 

 Boat in Baddiley IMere,' by the Ven. E. Barber. Both are well illustrated. 



The Seventy-Eighth Annual Report of Bootham School Natural History, 

 etc., Society is to hand, and has been carefully compiled and well edited. 

 There is every evidence of the school doing excellent work in natural 

 science. We can find nothing wrong with it, not even misprints. 



Vol. XI. of the Bulletin of the Geological Institution of the University 

 of Upsala, edited by H. Sjogren, contains many valuable papers, some of 

 which are printed in English. Among them are ' On the Geological 

 Structure and History of the Falkland Islands,' by T. G. Halle, and ' Notes 

 on some Fish Remains from the Lower Trias of Spitsbergen,' by Dr. A. 

 Smith Woodward. Some of the latter are described as new. There are 

 many maps and plates. 



The papers of interest to naturalists in the Memoirs and Proceedings 

 of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, Vol. LVL, Part I., 

 are on ' Researches on Heredity in Plants,' by Prof. Weiss ; on a collection 

 of Arachnida and Chilopoda from Rhodesia, by S. Hirst ; ' Intensive 

 study of the scales of three specimens of Salmon,' by Philippa C. Esdaile ; 

 ' Observations upon the improvement of the Physique of Manchester 

 Grammar School Boys during the last thirty years,' by Dr. Mumford ; 

 ' The Duration of Life of the Common and Lesser Shrew,' b}^ L. E. Adams ; 

 and a Note on the Little Owl and its food, by T. A. Coward. 



The Annual Report of the Proceedings under Acts relating to Sea 

 Fisheries for the year 1910 (cviii.-|-i94 pp., 2-3) has been issued by the 

 Board of Agriculture and Fisheries recently. It contains a mine of in- 

 formation relative to the fishing industry of this country, and while it is 

 necessarily largely written from the economical standpoint, it contains 

 much information of interest to naturalists. It is pleasing to observe that 

 the Board makes grants to the Zoological Department of the University 

 of Liverpool (;{20o), and to the Armstrong College (/loo), in aid of fishery 

 research. 



The Annual Report of Proceedings under the Salmon and Freshwater 

 Fisheries Acts, etc., etc., for the year 191 1, came to hand from the Board 

 of Agriculture about the same time. It consists of xvi. + 55 pp., and is 

 sold at 3^d. It contains carefully compiled reports for each of the districts 

 in England and Wales, and useful information in reference to the captures, 

 etc., of the various kinds of freshwater fish. One wonders how the ' estima- 

 ted ' number of salmon caught is arrived at, particularly in Yorkshire, 

 where we learn that during 191 1, exclusive of the Esk, 421 salmon were 

 caught by net and rod, weighing 4735 lbs. 



The Report of the Corresponding Societies' Committee and of the Con- 

 ference of Delegates held at Portsmouth is to hand (35 pp., i/-), and can 

 be obtained at the offices of the British Association, Burlington House, W. 

 It contains Prof. J. W. Gregory's address. As a result of the discussion 

 in reference to the best way of classifying natural history records, the 

 committee has agreed to the Watsonian Vice-County system, as was advo- 

 cated by the delegate appointed by the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union 

 when the matter was brought up a year or two ago. The discussion is 

 given on Mr. H. Wager's paper on ' The Study of Fungi by Local Natural 

 History Societies,' which was printed in extenso in ' The Naturalist ' ; 

 there is a report of a discussion opened by Sir Daniel Morris on ' Co-ordina- 

 tion of the work of Local Scientific Societies,' and of a discussion on ' The 

 Protection of Plants,' opened bj^ Mr. W. M. Webb. The report also con- 

 tains the usual useful list of papers which have appeared in the various 

 publications of the corresponding societies, classified according to subjects. 



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