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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



MR. HAROLD W. T. WAGER, F.R.S., F.L.S. 



It is satisfactory to learn that Mr. Harold Wager, F.R.S., 

 for many years a prominent supporter of the Yorkshire Nat- 

 uralists' Union, is to be the Union's president for 1913. Form- 

 erly lecturer in Botany at the Yorkshire College, Mr, Wager 

 naturally takes a principal interest in the plants, especially 

 the lower forms. At the Annual Fungus Forays of the York- 

 shire Naturalists' Union, he has frequently read papers and 

 in other ways added to the success of these gatherings. 

 Readers of The Naturalist are familiar with his work, which 

 principally refers to the Cytology and Reproduction of the 

 Lower Organisms, and the Teaching of Botany. At the South 

 African Meeting of the British Association in 1905 he was 

 President of the Botanical Section, and he has also occupied 

 the presidential chairs of the British Mycological Society and 

 the Leeds Naturalists' Club. In addition to being a Fellow 

 of the Roj^al and Linnean Societies, he is a Fellow of the German 

 Botanical Society. He is also a member of the Council of 

 the Royal Society. His position as Inspector of Secondary 

 Schools under the Board of Education necessarily makes him 

 familiar with modern educational methods. 



SIR CHARLES LYELL. 



The accompanying excellent portrait of Sir Charles Lyelt 

 is taken from the menu of the dinner held by the Geological 

 Section at the British Association at Dundee. The original 

 was hung in the Dundee Art Gallery, by Sir Leonard Lyell, 

 Bart., of Kinnordy, who has kindly given us permission to 

 reproduce it (Plate XVIII. ). The portrait was painted in 1870 

 by Lowes Dickenson, Charles Lyell being seventy-three at the 

 time. 



RED LION CUBS, 



The Red Lion Cubs, as the geologists were styled, held one 

 of the most successful Dinners that there have been for many 

 years, and it was graced by an unusual number of foreign 

 visitors who severally toasted the President (Dr. Peach) in 

 various languages. It so happened that the dinner was held 

 on the date the President was celebrating his seventieth 

 birthday, and those who heard him sing the ' Song of the 

 Seraphim,' in the chorus of which all the party joined, will 

 not soon forget it. The song was specially written for the 

 Red Lion Club Dinner held during the Dundee meeting in 1867, 

 and was then sung by the author, Dr. Henry Woodward, to the 

 tune of ' Bonny Dundee'. The ' Seraphim,' of course, is the 



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