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NOTES AND NEWS. 
The Council of the ce ig Society has awarded to Mr. J. G. Goodchild, 
F.G.S., the balance for this year of the Wollaston Nenation ph i caisblished 
“to promote researches isonet, the mineral structure of the ea 
poo< 
In various Parts of the Transactions of the Botanical peers of Edinburgh for 
the past few years are some valuable and interesting papers by Mr. Philip Sewell, 
of Whitby. One on ‘The Colouring Matters of Le owers ’ appeared 
in 1888 in Part 2 of Vo ; and in 1889 an elaborate ou botanic 
collection made on the coasts of Lapland and of the Yugor Straits (N. W. Siberia), 
during the vo — h oo r’ in 1888, appeared in Part the s 
volume. The latter paper inc summarised list of all the species known 
from the Islands “Sf Novaya Fentivs and Waigatz, and from the North Coast of 
Western Siberia. 
—— Poot 
One of the ae of Carex collected by ry Mee Sewell at Vardce is described 
by Messrs. C. B. Clarke and Arthur Bennett as new, with the very suitable name 
of Carex Seatne A figure of the Peet rs given as a plate. 
The 19th volume _ Ng Edinburgh Botanical Society’s Transactions, published 
in 1891, contains a of papers by Mr. Philip Sewell of Whitby. The first 
deals with th Use of Sphagnum Moss in th e Open-Air Gardening in the 
iviera,’ more especially as adopted i nbury’s garden at La Mortola 
The seco pee consists of ‘ Observations upon the Germination and Growth of 
Species of Salvia in the Gar f Thomas Hanbury, Esq., , at La Mortola, 
entimiglia, Ttaly," the notes made during a period hs during th 
winter of 1889-90. The last is ed ‘ Observations aL uN g the ae oes wef hos 
Ipes engage and deals with the subject from a climatological po 
Yorkshire ue oles rtunate in being able to claim so preransre and pe an aakiectee 
r SO! 
. Dulau & Co. have lately sy (8a) ‘eettea the ‘ Annals of — Geology, 
i801. “edited by Mr. J. F. Blake, M.A., F.G.S., President of the Geo ologists’ 
Asso Geologists will hail with pleasure this sec ae Y otia it is t 
be t Vm that its author may continue to produce a similar 
years c as the usefulness of such volumes, both he working student, 
amateur or professional, can scarcely be exagger: A hor aie 
y 
several improvements and alterations have been made on the first volume 
further states in his preface aa the quality a the tied 9h which this piiblica ibe 
s yet received is more grati than the quantit the 
con 
has been done i he w 
divided under seven heads, viz.:—General Geology, p 1-533 S tatigraphical 
ralogy, 243-2553 Petoney,. 25 -313; Economics, 314-330; aps an 
with a final i 
s than 40 papers 
aE hy the mh Woe the following authors, amongst others :—Prof. Williamson, 
; Messrs. J. W- F.G.S. (sev veral), J. G. Goodchild, and others (on 
an Pp 
the Gat of Mallerstang Fad di se ee ugh, 
Rev. E. M. Cole, B. Holgate, E. Jones (Elbolton Cave), H. Speight, J. F. Blake 
G ine, W. Cash, J. Spencer, Thos. Tate, A. pf dge, 
hers, nine of the ing papers area in ‘ The Naturalist.’ The work a 
also ill ted by seven plates and ma — ~~ to notice o istak 
che re oes Naturalist ’ appears organ of the bhi Geolog. 
and Pol OCs d of the Yorkshire Haetaw Union. 
pase cr ‘pook ey all students of Geology. 
Naturalist, 
