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Notes and Comments. 
USEFUL SOOT. 
In view of the valuable collection housed in the Museum, 
it is of interest to note the investigations that have been 
made at the British Museum with regard to the destructive 
agency of light, especially direct sunlight. The question is 
not a new one, for museum authorities throughout the country 
are fully cognisant of this danger, and are continually on their 
guard against it. Of more interest would be research work 
as to the best means of preserving specimens so as to render 
them immune to light. In Leeds precautions are taken at 
the Museum in Park Row, in rooms which are subjected to 
the direct rays of the sun. Double roofs and the whitewashing 
of glass in the roofs during the summer are among the means 
adopted, but the atmospheric conditions in the city are in 
themselves a natural screen, for the deposit of sooty material 
on the roof of the Museum is sufficiently heavy to necessitate 
periodical removal . 
THE MUSEUM AT YORK. 
The Yorkshire Philosophical Society celebrates its cen- 
tenary in July next year. To celebrate the hundredth 
anniversary the Council are hoping to raise £75,000. Mr. 
W. H. St. Quint in, the President, and the other officers of the 
Society, in their appeal to ‘ the active and substantial 
support of all who have the intellectual and scientific welfare 
of the county of York at heart/ point out that without 
generous assistance the Society will not be able to continue 
the work of the past, nor to meet the new demands made upon 
it in order to provide a Museum up to the standard of modern 
requirements. As to the need for additional buildings, 
the limit of storage room has been reached, while many 
valuable collections cannot be exhibited. The collections, 
the library, and the administrative department, have out- 
grown their present accommodation. An enlargement of the 
museum is imperative, as also of the library, which at present 
is scattered and ill-accommodated / preparation and storage 
rooms are needed, and an administrative department. 
PROF. A. GILLIGAN. 
At a meeting of the Council of the University of Leeds, 
Mr. Albert Gilligan, D.Sc., F.G.S., was elected to the Chair 
of Geology upon the retirement at the end of the present 
session of Professor P. F. Kendall. We learn from The 
Yorkshire Post that Dr. Gilligan is of Irish descent, was 
educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School and University 
College, Cardiff, where he held a Monmouthshire County 
Council scholarship, heading the list of candidates for his 
year. At Cardiff he specialised in geology under Professor 
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