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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 
FORAMINIFERA. 
The British Museum (Natural History) has published 
* British Antarctic (“ Terra Nova ”) Expedition, 1910. Nat- 
ural History Report. Zoology, Vol. VI., No. 2, pp. 25-268. 
Protozoa, Part II., Foraminifera, by E. Heron-Alien, and 
A. Earland.’ From the introduction we gather that ‘ Seven 
years have passed since we received from the present Director 
of the Natural History Museum fifty-four tubes and forty-three 
jars of varying sizes containing material for examination and 
report. The work has necessarily been retarded by the War, 
but has resulted in the recording of more than 650 species and 
varieties of Foraminifera, forty-six of which are new to 
Science. Before the Expedition started, we were consulted 
as to the best methods of collecting, and gladly gave the 
results of many years’ experience ; but circumstances appear 
to have rendered impossible any serious attempt at the collec- 
tion of foraminiferous material. Apart from the tubes con- 
taining the “cores” of soundings (which are of little value 
from a faunistic point of view), and a few sands from the 
New Zealand coastal area, the material received consisted 
principally of sandy debris, evidently the residium from 
gatherings of assorted Benthos, and usually “preserved ” in 
formalin, than which no more unsatisfactory medium for the 
“ preservation ” of Foraminifera can be imagined.’ The 
volume is magnificently illustrated, and is a valuable con- 
tribution to this difficult branch of k natural history. 
PROF. P. F. KENDALL, M.SC., F.G.S.* 
The announcement, at a recent meeting of the Court of 
the University of Leeds, of the impending retirement of 
Professor Percy F. Kendall, Professor in Geology, means that 
the University is shortly to lose one of its oldest j* and most 
honoured members. His connexion with the University has 
been a long and valued one. When the subject of agriculture 
was entered upon in what was then the Yorkshire College in 
1891, the teaching of geology was revived, and Professor 
Kendall received a part-time appointment for teaching 
geology to students of agriculture and coal mining. This 
developed into a lectureship, and, ultimately, at the founda- 
tion of the University of Leeds, in 1904, into a full professor- 
ship. His life’s work has been his all-absorbing hobby. 
With him geological work amounts almost to a passion, and 
his zeal in its pursuit has inspired many other men to follow 
this fascinating line of study. 
* From The Yorkshire Post. 
f We don’t agree. Prof. Kendall is as young as ever he was. 
1922 June 1 
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