NOTES AND ae WS. 
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the names of Mr. Willoeghby Gardner, of Tiverpoo ol, well known as an entomo- 
or of the most ni 
neashire and Cheshire, and Mr. Arnold T. awe, of She , whose excel- 
lent studies on the life history of various marine animals at at once recall 
themselves to the memory of chee a nterested. 
er oe —— —-- 
. C, Haldane, 
r. J. W. Gra t. James Johnson, J.P., and Mr. Sampson, who 
treat ey a t Mages ag and Chyinity, ae x snays, Steam Navigation, 
John Ruskin, Charles Kingsley, and the mode 
The activity of Manchester scientists is well phnesee in the Report of the 
keeper (Mr. W. E. Hoyle) of the Manchester Museum for 1896-7, which has 
lately reached us. This ivity is far-reac nd shows itself in innumerable 
ways in the report first alludes to the loss of the lat Hick, 
and the subsequent acquisition of his sections of coal-plants, then to t withdrawal 
of the Botanical Prof rom muse’ k, retiremen tr 
P and promotion of Mr. R. Standen to his post as Assistant Kee nd t 
appointment of Mr. Harold Murray as Assistant in the 
Botanical Departmen 
The work of the various ope is eect in detail, and the principal acquisitions 
to the collections noticed. 
Pees 
the Report we have also received the first four of a new series of 
petitions hee is entitled ‘ oe from the Manchester Museum,’ and is to 
sist of ——e to the museum reprinted from various serial publications. 
ed proposed Natura y 
Lower Co neashi Herbert ine 
these are dated with the exact date of issue. It is de er to be wished that the 
sees os ae, Ce mmaT 
Local guide books as often as not are neither a boon nor a Agar. to _ 
who read them for information, and between the book written by a specialist i 
t of one who used to be calle : ‘a hack,’ there is a gulf which is bag 
occasionally bridged. In o case of Mr. W. G. Collingwood’s ‘The Boo: ie 
Coniston’ (T. Wilson, Ken 1897), the goes is to padre” what we zie 
to say, for to call it cadmieable? is but bare recognition. From a ~ historical eee 
es is perhaps _as perfect as it could be. It plain directions what to see 
€ a ma ong t = ence. e proceeds of the sale, 
understand Mr. Call Bas ae — a porti a ot hie contribution to the 
Coniston Institute, so no admirer of Mr. Y Rashi ol omit to purchase, W 
a visitor or not.—S. L. P ee 
Naturalist, 
