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NORTHERN NEWS. 
The death is announced of Dr. T. A. Chapman, F.R.S., the well-known 
entomologist. 
Sir David Prain is retiring as Director of the Kew Gardens. He is 
succeeded by Dr. A. W. Hill. 
Horace Donisthorpe contributes ‘ Myrmecophilous Notes for 1921 ’ 
to The Entomologist’ s Record for January. 
Messrs. W. A. Lee and W. G. Travis have favoured us with a reprint 
of their valuable paper on ‘ The Muscineae of the Wirral, ' reprinted from 
The Lancashire and Cheshire Naturalist, 
‘ The Utility of Modern Museums is the title of an address recently 
given to the Belfast Rotary Club by Arthur Deane, Curator, and issued 
by the Belfast Museum Committee (12 pp.). 
We notice the Maidstone Museum and Public Library is issuing a 
reprint from the local press entitled ‘ Notes on Recent Additions to the 
Collections, by the Curator/ 
The well-known ‘ Strangers’ Hall,’ at Norwich, and its varied anti- 
quarian contents, has been handed over to the Norwich Corporation, as 
a historical museum, by Mr. L. G. Bolingbroke. 
Mr. J. Hetherton has recently placed a large wood at the disposal of 
the Yorkshire Philosophical Society as a bird sanctuary. We should 
like to see Spurn Point, Hornsea Mere, and other similar areas preserved 
in the same way. 
The Annual Meeting of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union, to be held 
towards the close of the present year at Scarborough, is by the kind 
invitation of the Scarborough Philosophical Society and the Scarborough 
Naturalists’ Society. It will bem success. 
Part 6 of The Outline of Science has some beautiful coloured plates 
and numerous other illustrations, the principal article being ‘ The 
Wonders of Microscopy.’ There are some photographs of the Aegir on 
the Trent, which are some of the most remarkable we have seen. 
The Council of the Geological Society has this year made the following 
awards: — Wollaston medal, Dr. A. Harker ; Murchison medal, Mr. J. 
W. Evans ; Lyell medal, Mr. C. Davison ; Wollaston fund, Dr. L. J. 
Wills ; Murchison fund, Mr. H. Bolton ; and Lyell fund, Mr. A. Mac- 
conochie and Mr. D. Tait. 
Among the contents of The Miner alogical Magazine for December, 
we notice ‘ Biographical Notices of Mineralogists recently deceased ; with 
an index to those previously published in this magazine, ’ by L. J . Spencer ; 
and an interesting paper on ‘ Curvature in Crystals,’ by the same author. 
Both contributions are illustrated. 
Part XXX. of Buckman’s Type Ammonites completes Volume III. 
of that valuable work. Among the plates we observe an excellent one 
of Ammonites binatus, Bean- MS., from the Castle Rock, Scarborough. 
Mr. Buckman gives the genus Binatisphinctes to one specimen labelled 
binatus, and H amulisphinctes hamulatus to another, and H amulisphinctes 
auricula to another, all from the same locality. 
The Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society, Vol. XXXVI., 
recently published, contains two papers of particular interest to northern 
readers, viz., ‘ The*Geography of Britain at the Time of the Arrival of 
Man,’ by Sir William Boyd Dawkins, and ‘ Some Geographical Factors 
in the Evolution of Navigation,’ by C. B. Fawcett. 
The tragically sudden death of Mr. Charles Hadrill, the widely -known 
and able assistant in the General Library of the British Museum (Natural 
History), will cause universal regret. His long association with Mr. B. B. 
Woodward and wide acquaintance with scientific literature had lightened 
the labours of many a student and assured him many friends. 
1922 Mar. 1 
