54 NOTES AND NEWS. 
on the Echinodermata; Prof. Herdman on the Nudibranchiata and 
pe ; and Mr. T. J. Moore on Seals and Whales, besides other 
report ms a tccat character, as well as many papers of extreme 
biological interest. It is in fact impossible in a brief notice to do 
anything like justice to the valuable work which these publications 
display, and they will take rank amongst the best scientific literature. 
The Biological Society has entered with earnest vigour and well- 
founded knowledge upon its important work, and the result so far 
excites our warmest praise and admiration.—E. HowarTH 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
We regret to have to aoa the death, _ — 75th year, of Mr. John Plant, 
who had been for nearly 45 years su tei nten and curator of the museum at 
Peel Park, Salford. coe gore able museum owes much of its success as 
a collection and as an cational institut n to Mr. Plant’s energy and ability. 
Tie was the last survivor ‘of a family of Garth his brothers ao Frank, 
and Nathaniel being all wallkaeon for work in their respective lin 
oe 
The lamented decease of Mr. Thomas Dyson, of Beverley, is announced in the 
same numbers of the Beverley newspapers in which ape — ished his statement 
for 1893 of Bev ir Rainfall, Temperature, Wind and Atmospheric Pressure. 
F many years he had ma ade systematic fea on a pone and 
published his annual summaries in the local papers. He wasa e of Drax, 
near Selby, and a school-master by profession. After a brief residence at Gains- 
borough, he came to Beverley in 1869, where his school was carried on to 1888, 
storms 2 hips into private life. When he died he was buta wack arhee: of being 
77 years of age. ; 
TT OE 
A most important upset est oe N rie pei Natural History Museum was 
poate ggg at the oF ember of the n Council, in a letter from 
. W. Carr, M.A., the oie who ha ‘ Hay leasure of announcing the 
cone of a very extensive al ataabhe oe nie British and foreign plants, 
presented to the Natural History Museum by Mr. H. Fisher, late of Newark. 
Some idea of bea pacragi and bees oak of the Caawir on may be ga athered from the 
following enume e important series included in it : —(1) A prac- 
tically complete . hanes of British slants; comprising about 2,000 species and 
varieties, and abo ut pega! arb tas A European collection, comprising 
many eae speci Hirt? ance, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Roumania, 
Russia, Norw by sie pe ( a Se eral thousand species es fr rom North America. 
(4) A very in collection ise the Bombay Presidency. (5) About 1,500 species 
he Transv (6) A sm 
i St. Petersburg, Lapland, a rimea, through Siberia to 
Kamskatka and Turkestan, also from the Trans-Caucasus and the Caspian region. 
The Spanish collection is an extremely fine and valuable one—proba of 
the best in existence. In order to ha er the collection to the town in 
complete and accessible form as sible, Mr. Fish s to Nottingham, 
for the ser te of arranging and labelling the collection, a work ll take 
ks of continuous application to complet he thanks of the Council 
for — porate a gift were ordered to be engrossed on vellum and fram d 
nted to Mr. Fis her 
—_ 
Naturalist, _ 
