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NOTES AND NEWS. 



We have received from Dr. Seaton a copy of his Annual Report for 1882, as 

 Medical Officer of Health to the Borough of Nottingham. It includes two maps 

 showing the surface levels of the borough by means of contour lines. One of 

 them is also coloured geologically, from the ordnance plan, but re-surveyed and 

 amended in detail by a well-known Nottingham geologist, Mr. James Shipman, 

 with the co-operation and valuable assistance of Mr. W. Talbot Aveline, F.G.S., 

 formerly of the Geological Survey. Mr. Shipman's labours have taken him over 

 ten years, and their result forms a most valuable and useful map, 



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The thirteenth annual meeting and conversazione of the Chester Society of 

 Natural Science was held in the Town Hall, on Thursday afternoon and evening, 

 September 25th, and was, as usual, a great success. An important feature of the 

 meeting was the presence of distinguished members of the Iron and Steel Institute, 

 at that time in session at Chester. Another was the presentation of the various 

 prizes which form so marked a feature of the Chester programme. The most im- 

 portant of these, the ' Kingsley Memorial Medal,' was presented to Mr. A. O. 

 Walker, F.L.S. The minor prizes were given for collections of birds' eggs, com- 

 posite plants, butterflies, and moths. 



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The Leeds Geological Association visited Pateley Bridge on the 4th October, 

 at the invitation of a number of gentlemen of the district interested in geological 

 pursuits. Having been met at the station by a number of local scientists, including 

 the Rev. A. Scott, the vicar ; and Messrs. W. Storey, G. Metcalfe, A. Phillips, 

 Jowitt, Whincup, and Robinson, the party proceeded to inspect the Scotgate Ash 

 Quarries under the direction of Mr. B. Holgate, F.G.S., who first offered remarks 

 on the general conditions under which the Nidderdale rocks were deposited. Mr. 

 Whincup, formerly manager at the c|uarries, then conducted the party over the 

 quarry, pointing out the principal features of interest which it contained. Time 

 clid not permit of any other part of the district being visited, but the Association 

 hope to pay another visit to Pateley, some time in the spring. 



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The annual soiree of the Associated Literary, Scientific, and Art Societies ol 

 Liverpool was held in St. George's Plall, on Wednesday the loth December last. 

 The attendance was exceedingly large. The attractions of the evening included 

 illustrated science lectures by Professor W. F. Barrett, Dr. J. Sibley Hicks, F.L.S. , 

 J. H. T. Ellerbeck, Rev. T. E. Espin, B.A., F.R.A.S., J. W. Ellis, L.R. CP., 

 and others ; musical entertainments ; and special exhibitions from the Microscopical 

 Society, the Naturalists' Field Chib, the Liverpool Museum, the Geological 

 Association, and the Amateur Photographic Association, amongst which Mr. 

 Galloway's archneological exhibition, and Mr. Frank Archer's fine collection of 

 shells from the Mediterranean, attracted considerable attention. On the following 

 evening the Mayor gave a soiree to about 5,000 working men in the same place, 

 on which occasion, some of the lectures and most of the exhibitions of the 

 previous evening were repeated. 



It is somewhat surprising that so large a county as Lincolnshire should not 

 before this have been able to boast of some organisation or other with a scientific 

 object. This can hardly be due to the lack of scientific workers, for the county 

 of Isaac Newton and Alfred Tennyson possesses several such who take high rank 

 in their respective pursuits, while some of the most active scientific men in 

 Yorkshire and elsewhere are of Lincolnshire birth or extraction We therefore note 

 with satisfaction the formation of the ' Louth Naturalists' Society,' the first 

 Lincolnshire society of its kind of which we are cognisant. We have received a 

 copy of the rules and list of officers, whereby we note that Mr. E. Kendall is 

 president, Mr. R. W. Goulding vice-president, and Mr. H. ,W. Kew is hon. 

 secretaiy and treasurer. To these gentlemen we wish every success, and to their 

 Society a long and prosperous career in the investigation of the much-neglected 

 natural history of the county of Lincoln. 



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