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Norfolk,’ where he has founded an Ecological station and 
carried on for some time valuable researches on the Shingle 
Beach which has been acquired by the National Trust. Dr. 
Smith gives an appreciative account of Raunkiaer’s work during 
recent years on ‘ Life Forms’ and Statistical Methods. Mr. 
Tansley reviews at great length—Brockmann—Jerosch and 
Riibels, ‘ Classification of Plant Communities.’ A paper by 
Mr. Clement Reid is given (read before the meeting of the Bri- 
tish Association in 1911) on the ‘ Relation of the present plant 
population to the Glacial Period.’ The remaining pages are 
devoted to notices of ‘ Publications of General Bearing’ and 
work on British and Foreign Vegetation, also a list of recent 
ecological literature. The Journal, the first part consisting 
of 80 pages, will be issued quarterly by the Cambridge press, 
at the rather high figure of 5s. a part. 
THE MUSEUMS ASSOCIATION. 
What was certainly the most largely attended conference of 
the Museums Association, and what was generally stated 
to have been the most successful conference ever held by the 
Association, took place at Hull during the week commencing 
July 14th. There were representatives present from practic- 
ally every museum of importance in the British Isles, as well 
as from Germany, America, and Australia. Mr. E. Howarth, 
F.Z.S., was the president. 
HANDBOOKS. 
In the way of literature also the delegates were well supplied, 
the Local Committee giving to each visitor a set of the Guides 
to the Hull Museums, tastefully bound in green cloth, and a 
large official handbook to the city, specially bound for the meet- 
ing, and containing portraits of the prominent officials of the 
Association and of the local Committee; descriptions of the 
Museums, Art Galleries and other places likely to interest 
the members. This was similiarly tastefully bound. 
PAPERS AND DISCUSSIONS. 
In addition to the President’s address, the following papers 
were read and discussed at the Conference :—‘ Methods of Col- 
lecting, by Mr. Thos. Sheppard; ‘How we may show our 
Museums and Art Galleries to the Blind: a report on some 
experiments,’ by Mr. J. A. Charlton Deas ; ‘A method of Fixing 
Specimens in Spirit,’ by Mr. J. W. Baggaley ; ‘ The Organisation 
of a Textile Museum,’ by Professor Roberts Beaumont ; ‘ The 
Decay and Preservation of Antiquities,’ by Dr. F. Rathgen ; 
“Some Reflections on the work of a Museum Guide,’ by Cecil 
W.C. Hallett, B.A. ; ‘A Museum Guide and his work,’ by J. H. 
Leonard ; ‘Note on a Form of Inverted Electric Light,’ and 
‘Lantern-Slides of Museum Objects in Colour,’ by Mr. E. E. 
Naturalist, 
