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lUogan, Gwennap, Stithian, St. Agnes, Cliacewater, Baldhu, 

 Wendrou, Praze. Crowan, and Gwinear there are at present 

 unemployed over 3,000 miners, representing some 16,000 dependents. 

 All the miaes are closed through no fault of the men, but purely on 

 economic grounds, the price of tin now being considerably less than 

 before the war. These men never had a high rate of wages, and 

 received no inflated war bonus, and when the depression began 

 many of them offered to return 20 per cent of their wages in the 

 hope that thus it might be possible to keep the mines open. At 

 present there is nothing for them except relief work on a very limited 

 scale. We are glad to learn that there is a slight possibility 

 of improved conditions owing to a projected large-scale amalgamation 

 of mines, but it must be long before this can produce any appreciable 

 effect. Meanwhile, but for the efforts of the local Mining Unemploy- 

 ment Relief Committee, great distress and actual destitution must 

 prevail, and we desire most urgently to recommend this good cause 

 to the generosity of our readers. Subscriptions or gifts in kind, 

 especially clothing, boots, and shoes, may be sent to the Hon. 

 Secretary of the Committee, the Rev. W. A. Bryant, Beacon Hill, 

 Camborne, Cornwall. 



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The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press wUl shortly begin 

 the publication of a new series, entitled The Provinces of Ireland. 

 The volumes will be under the general editorship of Mr. George 

 Fletcher, of the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction 

 for Ireland ; each will contain sections on ancient geography, 

 topography, geology, botany, zoology, antiquities, architecture, 

 administration, education, industries, and distinguished men ; 

 the contributors include Professor R. A. S. Macalister, Pro- 

 fessor G. A. J. Cole, Professor Isaac Swain, Mr. R. Lloyd Praeger, 

 Mr. E. C. R. Armstrong, Dr. R. I. Best, and Mr. George Fletcher. 

 The volumes will be of convenient size (about 180 crown octavo 

 pages each), and will be illustrated by maps, diagrams, and photo- 

 graphs. The volumes on Ulster and Munster will be ready 

 immediately ; these will be followed in the early spring by Leinster 

 and Connaught, and the series wUl be completed by a somewhat 

 larger volume dealing with Ireland as a whole. Finally, it may be 

 added, that political controversy is rigidly excluded from all volumes 

 of the series, and it is hoped that the plan of the books may be as 

 acceptable in Belfast and Londonderry as in Dublin and Cork. 



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In November last Mr. James Mann Wordie, M.A., was admitted into 

 a Fellowship at St. John's College, Cambridge. Mr. Wordie has paid 

 special attention to glacial problems, and carried out explorations in 

 circumpolar regions. He was on the Shackieton Antarctic Expedition 

 of 1914-17, and has since visited Spitsbergen and Jan Mayen 

 Island. On his return from the Antarctic Expedition he served in 

 the war as a Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery. 



