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those chronicled for 1910, and it is encouraging to notice a steady 

 increase in the number of visits paid for purposes of study. The 

 appointment of an official Guide to take members of the public round 

 various parts of the museum daily, free of charge, has been much 

 appreciated, and evidently meets a widely felt want. It is to be 

 hoped, too, that the example of the parent institution in putting on 

 sale picture postcards or other reproductions of objects of interest 

 in the museum will be followed at South Kensington ; such means 

 of drawing attention to the museum and therefore of increasing its 

 usefulness are not to be disdained. The rapid growth of the 

 entomological collections and the importance of insects in relation 

 to the spread of disease in man and in animals have led to 

 the separation of the Entomological Section from the Zoological 

 Department, and Mr. C. J. Gahan, formerly senior assistant, has been 

 made the first Keeper of Entomology. So great is the congestion in 

 the collections on this side of the museum that an extension of the 

 building westward is under consideration. Dr. Jehu gave his fourth 

 course of Swiney lectures in December and January, his subject 

 being " The Record of Life as revealed in the Rocks ". His 

 appointment has been extended for another year, and he proposes 

 to give a course of lectures in December on " The Natural History of 

 Minerals and Rocks ". 



IV. — United States Geological Survey. — Water-supply Paper 

 No. 292 (1913) continues the account of the surface water-supply, 

 aspartxii, North Pacific Coast. In No. 314 (1913) the "Surface 

 Water-Supply of Seward Peninsula, Alaska " is described by 

 Messrs. E. E. Henshaw and G. L. Parker, and included in the report 

 are a sketch of the geography and geology by Mr. Philip S. Smith, 

 and a description of the methods of placer mining by Mr. Alfred 

 H. Brooks. The subjects are well illustrated by a geological map ; 

 a topographical map, on which are marked the gauging and rainfall 

 stations and the placer deposits ; and numerous pictorial views of 

 flumes and other artificial water channels, and of mining operations 

 and sluicing. In Water-supply Paper No. 317(1913) Mr. C. H. Gordon 

 reports on the " Geology and Underground Waters of the Wichita 

 Region, north-central Texas". 



DVniSC!EIL.Xj ^^ZSTEOTJS. 



At a meeting of Council in September, 1913, Dr. F. H. Hatch, 

 M. Inst. C.E., F.G.S., etc., was duly elected President of the 

 Institution of Mining and Metallurgy for 1914. 



Dr. T. E. Sibly, E.G.S., Lecturer in Geology in King's College, 

 London, has been appointed Professor of Geology in University 

 College, Cardifi. 



Mr. T. Sheppard, E.G.S., Curator of the Municipal Museums, Hull, 

 has been elected President of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union for 

 the ensuing year. He had already filled the ofiice of Honorary 

 Secretary to that body for several years past with great success. 



