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knowledge of geological literature and his unfailing courtesy and 

 helpfulness to those in search of information. During the War, 

 owing to the depletion of the staff he took on his shoulders the 

 principal weight of the Society's business, attending to many of the 

 duties which ordinarily devolve on other officials, in addition to 

 heavily increased work in the Library, largely owing to the demands 

 of the naval and military authorities for maps and publications 

 dealing with the geology and geography of the various theatres of war. 

 Mr. Chatwin leaves Burlington House with the hearty good wishes 

 of his colleagues and friends for his future prosperity in his new 

 sphere of work, which will doubtless give him opportunities of 

 continuing and extending the researches in palaeontology on which 

 he has long been engaged. 



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The annual course of twelve lectures on geology under the direction 

 of the Swiney Trustees and in connexion with the British Museum 

 (Natural History) will be given by Dr. J. D. Falconer, the subject 

 being the Geology and Mineral Resources of the British Possessions 

 in Africa. The lectures will be given in the Theatre of the Imperial 

 College of Science (Royal College of Science, Old Building), 

 Exhibition Road, South Kensington, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and 

 Fridays, at 5.30 p.m., beginning Monday, November 10, and ending 

 Friday, December 5. The lectures will be illustrated by lantern 

 slides and admission is free. We cannot afford space to reproduce 

 the whale of the interesting syllabus, but the following dates and 

 titles of the lectures may be found useful. November 10, The 

 Continent of Africa. November 12, 14, and 17, The Union of South 

 Africa. November 19, Bechuanaland and British South-West Africa. 

 November 21, Rhodesia and Nyasaland. November 24, Uganda, 

 British East Africa, and Somaliland. November 26 and 28, Egypt 

 and the British Sudan. December 1 and 3, British West Africa. 

 December 5, Summary and Conclusion. 



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Two important geological collections of more than local interest have 

 recently been acquired by the Hull Municipal Museum, viz. the 

 Drake and Bower Collections. The first was formed by the late 

 H. C. Drake, F.G.S., who spent many years in the Scarborough 

 district, and also collected largely among the Saurian and other 

 vertebrate remains of the Oxford Clay in the Peterborough area. 

 Mr. Drake was an exceptionally keen and patient collector and was 

 very successful in extracting difficult specimens from their matrix. 

 From the Oolites of the Scarborough and Malton districts he 

 obtained a remarkably fine series of fish and reptilian teeth and 

 bones, some being of altogether exceptional interest. He also 

 carried out original work among the Cephalopods. Many additional 

 records to the fauna of these rocks have been made as a result of 

 Mr. Drake's researches. He was also successful in securing many 

 important vertebrate remains from the Chalk of North Lincolnshire, 

 which have been described in the Palseontographical Society's 

 memoirs, the Geological Magazine, the Naturalist, and other 



