THE NATURALIST 



POK 1909. 



NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



LINCOLNSHIRE NATURALISTS. 



The annual meeting of the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union 

 was held at Lincoln on December 3rd. There are 112 members 

 in the Union. The Rev. E. A. Woodruffe Peacock presented 

 60,000 notes on the Flora of Lincolnshire, and it was decided 

 to have them published. The Rev. A. Hunt read a paper on 

 ' Pre-historic Man in Lincolnshire.' In this he said it was 

 ' possible to reconcile the teachings of scientific results with 

 the scriptural narratives. There was a Bronze Age in the 

 Bible . . . Bronze (translated brass in the Pentateuch) was 

 mentioned forty-five times. Iron was only mentioned four 

 times.' Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, of Leeds, was elected 

 president for 1909. 



DR. W. E. HOYLE. 



We should like to sincerely congratulate Dr. W. E. Hoyle, 

 of the Manchester Museum, on his appointment as Director of 

 the new Welsh National Museum at Cardiff. Dr. Hoyle's 

 excellent work at the Owen's College Museum is well known, 

 and the collections under his charge have long been looked upon 

 by his confreres with envy. Dr. Hoyle has also taken a keen 

 and practical interest in the work of the many Manchester 

 scientific societies, and, consequently his departure will be 

 much regretted. At the Leicester meeting of the British 

 Association he was the President of the Section for Zoology, 

 and gave an admirable address on the classification of the 

 Cephalopoda, a subject he has made a special study. 



NORWICH MUSEUM ASSOCIATION. 



We have received the First Annual Report of Proceedings 

 of the Norwich Museum Association, founded in 1907 for the 

 object of extending the sphere of usefulness of the Norwich 

 Museum. A series of lectures has been given on such subjects 

 as ' The food of birds,' ; ' The House-fly, etc., and other insects 

 as carriers of disease ' ; ' Some Fungoid Diseases of Plants ' ; 

 ' The Nature and Properties of Soils,' etc., etc. These are given 

 by specialists, and have been well attended, and much appre- 

 ciated. 



1909 January i. 



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