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MOTES AND NEWS. 



Among the 'fifteen' selected this year for the honour of F.R.S. is Prof. T. 

 McKenny Hughes, of Cambridge, author of many papers on the geology of York- 

 shire and Westmorland, and President of the Chester Natural History Society. 



Our reprinting from the British Association Report the particulars of the 

 Museums of the North of England, which appeared in our February number, has 

 been the means of eliciting information as to a couple of museums of the first rank 

 which have, by some strange mischance or other, escaped the attention of the 

 British Association Committee. 



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One of them is the very extensive museum at the Hull Royal Institution, 

 belonging to the Literary and Philosophical Society of that town, which dates 

 from the year 1823, and includes collections in ethnography and all branches 

 of natural science. The printed guide (of about IOO pages) is now before us, but 

 unfortunately dates so far back as i860. The museum is open to the public on 

 Saturdays, and at any other time by introduction. 



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The other is the Nottingham Museum, the property of the Corporation of that 

 town, of which Mr. J. W. Carr, B.A., is the curator, and which — as we are 

 informed — contains one of the best invertebrate collections in the provinces. 



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By the appointment of Mr. Lionel E. Adams, B.A. , to the Head-mastership 

 of the Grammar School at Penistone, the ranks of Yorkshire conchologists— not 

 too numerous — receive a notable addition. The nephew of the famed authors of 

 'The Genera of Mollusca,' Mr. Adams is himself known as a successful investigator 

 and as author of a manual of the British land and freshwater mollusca which is 

 not beyond the reach of most collectors. 



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We are very pleased to learn that the Rev. W. H. Painter (of Knypersley, 

 near Congleton ) expects to publish his Flora of Derbyshire before very long, and 

 we hope that the requisite number of subscribers will be forthcoming. The author 

 has been engaged on its preparation for many years, and proposes to write it on 

 practically the same model as Mr. Baker's 'Flora of the Lake District.' He will 

 include in the work an introductory chapter on the geology and the botanical 



bibliography of the county. 



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The appointment of Keeper of the Manchester Museum has been conferred 

 upon Mr. W. E. Hoyle, M.A., M.R.C.S., M.C.S., who was formerly identified 

 with the staff of the ' Challenger ' office at Edinburgh, and whose papers on 

 Cephalopoda are well known. Mr. J. Ray Hardy, whose ability and energy are 

 so highly appreciated and well known in Manchester, remains as sub-keeper. 



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Much useful material is contained in Part IV. of the Transactions of the 

 Leeds Geological Association, which includes abstracts of papers read and accounts 

 of excursions made during 1888. The inaugural address of the President, 

 Mr. J. E. Bedford, F.G.S. (whose portrait is given as a frontispiece), deals with 

 the 'Oil-fields of America and Russia.' Mr. W. Cheetham contributes a paper 

 entitled ' From the Millstone Grits to the Silurians,' and abstracts are given of 

 papers by Messrs. G. W. Lamplugh, B. Holgate, F.G.S. , and Prof. Green, F.R.S. 

 The excursions — chronicled by the energetic Secretary, Mr. S. A. Adamson, F.G.S. 

 — are eleven in number, four of which were excursions of the Yorkshire Naturalists' 

 Union. The Association has, however, struck out a special line, which must be 

 commended to geologists as a good example, viz., the organising of a series of 

 excursions for the study of a particular subject. The subject chosen is the rather 

 neglected one of the Yorkshire Permians, and two excursions among these rocks 

 were made last year under the guidance of Mr. Holgate. The Association resumed 

 operations in the field on March 31st, with a third Permian excursion, from Gar- 

 forth to Newthorpe. At the ordinary meeting for March, Mr. C. D. Hardcastle 

 read a detailed and instructive paper on ' The Physical Features of the Ingleton 

 District,' a full report of which appears in the Leeds newspapers. 



May 1880. 



