376 Northern News. 



Mr. T. Sheijp.'ird, who lias been the Hon. Secretary of the Hull Scientific 

 and F"iekl Naturalists' Club for thirteen years, has been elected to the office 

 of President of the Club. 



The trustees of the late A. A. Palnia have agreed to i)urchase the 

 picturesque estate known as Hubbard's Hills, near Louth, Lines., with the 

 object of offering' it to the town. 



Mr. G. Henrickson, Inspector of Mines, Christiania, favours us with a 

 paniplilet entitled ' Sundry Geological Problems ' {18 pp.), in which he deals 

 with the origin of certain iron ore deposits. 



The Chester Society of Natural Science is ' strong ' on Meteorology, 

 judging from the thirty-fourth annual report just to hand. An exceptionally 

 large list of additions to the librar}- is also printed. 



We have received Parts i and 2 of Xorthcni N^ufcs and Onirics, a 

 quarterly journal devoted to the antiquities of Northumberland, Cumberland, 

 Westmorland, and Durham, edited by H. R. Leighton, price 1/6. 



The Official Information Department of the Manx Government has 

 issued an attractive Hand-book to the Island, beautifully illustrated, which 

 should be in the hands of all those thinking of visiting the Isle of Man. 



A paper of practical interest to northern archaeologists on ' The Chron- 

 ology of Prc-historic Glass Beads and Associated Ceramic Types in Britain,' 

 b}' the Hon. J. Abercromby appears in the Journal of the Antiiropological 

 Association, Vol. 35. 



We have received a recent report of the Louth Antiquarian and Naturalists' 

 Society, which contains a brief summar}' of the work of the society during 

 the year. The more important finds are also recorded. The statement of 

 accounts shows a small balance in hand. 



A list of papers, maps, etc., relating to the erosion of the Holderness 

 coast and the changes in the Humber estuary, by Mr. T. Sheppard, F.G.S., 

 compiled at the request of the Ro\-al Geographical Society, has been reprinted 

 from the Transactions of the Hull Geological Society. 



Dr. A. Smith Woodward's presidential address to the Geological 

 Association on ' The Study of Fossil Fishes ' has been printed in exfenso in 

 the Society's Proceedings. It contains some of the most striking illustrations 

 of the evolution of fishes that we have seen for some time. 



On the title page of \'ol. XIV. of ' Nature Stud)' and the Naturalists' 

 Journal' (formerly the 'Naturalists' Journal') which was issued with the 

 number for December last, was a quotation from a paper by Mr. T. 

 Sheppard on the advantages of the studv of Natural Histor\'. The magazine 

 has not appeared since ! ! 



From the report of the Manchester Museum, Owen's College, for the year 

 1905-6, it is gratifying to learn that financially the museum has had a much 

 better j'ear. Amongst many interesting acklilions is a valuable collection of 

 over 5000 stone implements, formed by Mr. R. D. Darbishire during the last 

 forty years, and presented by him to the institution. 



Part 3 of the ' Manchester Field Club ' has been received, and contains 

 an account of the work of the society from 1902 to December 1903. The 

 ])arl is excellently printed on good ])aper ; and, whilst many of the articles 

 do not bear uijon the Manchester district in any way, there are several which 

 have a distinct local value. The society has a very substantial balance in 

 the bank. 



Tiii'presidential address of Mr. John Gerrard to the Manchester Geologic.il 

 and Mining .Socielv ap|)cars in the Transactions of that Socii'ty, \'<)I. 2<.), 

 Pari II. In the same Journal I'rof. W. Boyd Dawkins describis 'a section 

 of glacial de])osits met with in the construction of the new dock at Salforil. 

 In this he mentions a boulder of coal-measure sandstone weighing about 45 

 tons, which is saiti to be l)y far the largest boukler yet fountl in Lancashire 

 in the glacial drift. 



Naturalist, 



