8o 
NORTHERN NEWS. 
The Thirteenth International Geological Congress will be held in 
Belgium in August. 
The death is announced of Sir German Sims Woodhead, Professor of 
Pathology in the University of Cambridge. He was born at Huddersfield 
on April 29th, 1855. 
The F ourteenth Report of the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, 
contains a plate illustrating important British and Roman remains 
recently added to the collections. 
Parts 2 and 3 of The Outline of Science (George Newnes, 1/2 net each) 
deal with the Story of Evolution, and the Ascent of Man, and contain 
numerous coloured and other illustrations. 
Prof. P. F. Kendall has accepted the presidency of Section ‘ C * 
(Geology) at the Hull Meeting of the British Association in September. 
The Hull Geologists are already at work in connexion with this meeting. 
We regret to announce the death of Mr. A. E. Hall, of Cran field House, 
Southwell, Notts., who formerly occupied an official position in the 
Entomological section of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union. He was an 
occasional contributor to The Naturalist. 
One of a group of Chilean tree, Araucaria imbricata, at Sewerby House, 
near Bridlington, has produced a large number of seeds from which healthy 
young plants have been raised. When the roots of a dead tree were being 
removed, large quantities of resin, set in hard amber- like masses, were 
dug up. 
The New Phytologist for December contains, among other items, a 
study of some of the Factors Controlling the Periodicity of Freshwater 
Algae in Nature,’ by W. J. Hodgetts ; ‘ A new species of Caelastrum / 
by F. Rich ; and ‘ An Unusual Plant of Cheiranthus cheiri L.’ by E. M. 
Poulton. 
In No. 308 of The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, Miss 
A. I. McDonald and Dr. A. E. Trueman have an interesting paper on 
‘ The Evolution of certain Liassic Gastropods, with special reference to 
their use in Stratigraphy.’ In this, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire specimens 
are described. 
Among the New Year honours we are pleased to find the names of 
Professor W. A. Herman, of Liverpool, ex-President of the British Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science, and Alderman Edward Packard, 
of Ipswich, who takes so keen an interest in the Museum there ; both of 
whom have received a knighthood. 
The death is announced of Walter Morrison, of Malham Tarn, at the 
age of 85. He was a fine type of man in every way. Many of our readers 
knew him well, and he was ever anxious to support any movement for 
the improvement of his fellows. He was many sided in his activities, 
and probably got as much good out of his life, and principally by assisting 
good causes, as was possible. A fine memoir dealing with his career 
appears in The Yorkshire Post for December 20th. 
Mr. Hans Schlesch has purchased the F. Booth collection of Marine 
and Foreign Fresh Water Mollusca, formed by Mr. F. Booth of Shipley, 
and presented it to the Municipal Museum at Hull, where it will form 
a welcome addition to the already extensive collection of Mollusca from 
all parts of the world, known as the Schlesch Collection. The Booth 
collection contains : — 
Genera Species 
190 1410 Marine Gastropods. 
82 329 Marine Bivalves. 
53 356 Brackish and Fresh Water Univalves. 
3 14 Brackish and Fresh Water Bivalves. 
328 2109 
Naturalist 
