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publications. Some years ago he considerably augmented the 

 geological collections in the Hull Museum, several cases being 

 entirely occupied by his gifts. He also assisted in preparing the 

 catalogues of this collection. The specimens recently obtained will 

 be shown with his other fossils in due course. The other collection 

 was formed by the Rev. C. R. Bower. Many of the specimens are 

 described and some figured in his paper on " The Zones of the Lower 

 Chalk of Lincolnshire" in the Proceedings of the Geologists' 

 Association for 1918. This collection consists of over a thousand 

 excellently cleaned Chalk fossils, carefully labelled and localized, 

 including many of those which have been figured in his paper, as 

 well as one of the two known examples of Actinocamax Boiveri, the 

 other specimen being in the British Museum. The collections are 

 largely from the Lower Chalk of Lincolnshire and from the Chalk of 

 Yorkshire, and there is an interesting series from the Upper Cre- 

 taceous of Dover, Folkestone, Kent, and Norfolk. Most of these 

 specimens have been examined and verified by Dr. A. W. Rowe and 

 Mr. C. Davies Sherborn. 



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The Cambridge University Press will shortly publish a new work by 

 Mr. J. Y. Buchanan, whose earlier volumes of scientific and other 

 papers are well known. It is entitled Accounts Rendered of Work 

 done and Things seen, and consists of a variety of papers on 

 geographical, oceanographical, and other subjects, such as " The 

 Colour of the Sea", " The Sperm Whale and its Food", " Air-tight 

 Subdivision in Ships ", " The Daintiness of the Bat", etc. 



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Mr. Frederick Chapman, A.L.S., has been appointed part-time 

 lecturer and demonstrator in palaeontology at the University of 

 Melbourne. He will take up his duties in March, 1920. 



Imperial Mineral Resources Bureau. 



WITH reference to the announcement . of the Minister of 

 Reconstruction that the Imperial War Conference, after 

 considering the report of a Committee of which Sir James Stevenson, 

 Bart., was chairman, had made a recommendation in favour of the 

 constitution of an Imperial Mineral Resources Bureau, this body was 

 set up and charged Avith the duties of collecting information 

 regarding the mineral resources and metal requirements of the 

 Empire, and of advising the various Governments and others 

 concerned from time to time what action might appear to be 

 desirable to enable those resources to be developed and made 

 available to meet the requirements of the Empire. 



In accordance with this recommendation the Governors of the 

 Bureau were appointed, one by the Home Government (whose 

 representative is the Chairman of the Bureau), one by each of the 

 five self-governing Dominions, one each by the Government of 



