Northern Neifos. 31 



for it. By his address to the Hull and District Teachers' 

 Association Mr. Sheppard has helped to this end. 



We may say that the Illustrations are excellent. There is 

 one Greek word in the book and it is wrong", but this is a 

 misprint. -J. Malet Lambert. 



NORTHERN NEWS. 



An earth tremor occurred in the Manchester and Salford district at 

 3.45 a.m. on November 25th last. 



A memorial bust of the late Dr. Joule was recently unveiled at Sale, near 

 Manchester. 



The new Museum and Laboratories of Zoology of the University of 

 Liverpool were opened by the Eiirl of Onslow in November. 



In the Geolog-ical Magazine for December, Mr. G. \\'. Lamplugh, 

 F.R.S., has some 'Notes on the Geological History of the Victoria Falls.' 



Yorkshire Naturalists will be sorry to hear that Mr. W. Nelson, of Leeds, 

 who has done so much for Yorkshire conchology, is suffering- from a severe 

 illness, from which he is not expected to recover for some time. 



]\Ir. J. W. H. Harrison, B.Sc. , writes on ' Social H3'menoptera in North 

 Durham,' ' Note on Vohicella tombylans,' and ' Megachile circumciiicta, 

 Lep., in Durham,' to the December 'Entomologist's Record.' 



Mr. W. West and Prof. G. S. West contribute a memoir on ' Fresh- 

 water Algae from the Orkneys and Shetlands ' to the ' Transactions of the 

 Botanical Society of Edinburgh,' vol. 21,^ part i. 



The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is issuing a 

 new periodical, ' The Animal World,' part i of which has just reached us. 

 The publication, which is well illustrated, will doubtless advance the cause 

 of the Society. 



It has been decided by the Council of the British Association that the 

 meeting of the Association, to be held at York in 1906, shall commence on 

 August 1st. This date is much earlier than usual, and we doubt the wisdom 

 of such a change. 



Sir John Burdon Sanderson, who was Professor of Physiology at Oxford 

 for many years, has recently died at the age of 77 years. He was a 

 native of Jesmond, Northumberland, and a familiar figure at the meetings 

 £)f the British Association. 



The death is announced of Capt. F. W. Hutton, of the Canterbury 

 Museum, New Zealand, who was the second son of the Rev. H. F. Hutton, 

 Rector of Spridlington, Lincolnshire ; and of Dr. Ralph Copeland, Astro- 

 nomer Royal for Scotland, who was born in Lancashire. 



We regret to record the death, on November i8th, of a well-known 

 Bradford worthy, James Monckman, D.Sc, at the age of 63. Dr. Monck- 

 man was one of the founders of the Bradford Scientific Association, and was 

 three times the president. Though he was principally occupied with 

 chemistry and allied sciences, he took a great interest in the natural sciences, 

 and paid particular attention to the glacial features of the Bradford district. 

 He was helpful in the formation of the Bradford Botanical Garden, and 

 occasionally contributed to the Journals of the Yorkshire Scientific Societies. 



1906 January i. 



