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NORTHERN NEWS. 
The death is announced of W. H. Hudson, author of many books on 
natural history subjects. 
J. K. Charlesworth, Ph.D., D.Sc. (Leeds), has been appointed Pro- 
fessor of Geology at Belfast. 
Dr. Tattersall, of the Manchester Museum, has been appointed Pro- 
fessor of Zoology at the Cardiff University. 
Publication No. 78 of the Belfast Museum deals with Old Domestic 
Ironwork, etc. It contains 16 pages and is sold at id. 
The Rt. Hon. Lord Ernie writes on ‘ The Future of British Agricul- 
ture ’ in the Journal of the Ministry of Agriculture for August. 
‘ What to see in the Leicester Museum and Art Gallery ’ — a pamphlet 
of 16 pages — and sold at one penny, has now reached its sixth edition. 
The death is announced of Sir Albert Rollit, a native of Hull, who 
took a prominent part in scientific matters during the past half century. 
The Queen’s University of Belfast has conferred the degrees of D.Sc., 
Honoris causa, upon Prof. G. A. J. Cole, J. L. E. Dreyer, and R. L. 
Praeger. 
Mr. E. L. Gill, of the Hancock Museum, Newcastle, has been appointed 
assistant to Dr. Ritchie, Keeper of the Natural History Department of 
the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh. 
The Boston Society of Natural History (U.S.A.) has published a 
particularly valuable ‘ Manual of the Orthoptera of New England,’ by 
A. P. Morse. It contains some remarkably good plates. 
The Report of the Colchester Museum Committee for the two years 
ended 31st March, 1922 (36 pp., 6d.), is a fine record of important local 
acquisitions, with illustrations of the more important objects. 
The death is announced of the Hon. Victor A. H. H. Onslow, at the 
early age of 32. His lower limbs were paralysed as a result of a diving 
accident in 1911, since when he devoted himself to the study qf variation 
and mendelism. 
As Hull Museum Publication, No. 130, is issued ‘ The Hull Municipal 
Museum of Natural History, Antiquities and Applied Art : Its History 
and Collections,’ by T. Sheppard, M.Sc. It contains twelve pages, and 
is sold at one penny. 
We have received from M. Charles Janet, Considerations sur L’etre 
Vivant, Resume Preliminaire de la constitution de L’orthobionte, 
Part I. and L’lndividu, la Sexualite, la Parthenogenese et la Mort, au 
point de vue orthobiontiaue, Part II. 
Phyllis E. Pease has issued a charming pamphlet, The Legend of 
Paradise and other poems (A. Brown & Sons, 38 pp., 2s. 6d.) ; Paradise 
being the name given to an East Yorkshire coppice. There are poems 
on Geese, the Yorkshire Wolds, Sunset among the Trees, A Thunderstorm, 
October, and Christmas. 
L. S. Palmer gives a fearful and wonderful ‘ imaginary section, 
illustrating man’s relation to the Ice Age in Hampshire.’ The first 
column, headed ‘Climatic Period,’ contains the following : ‘Recent 
Daun ? Gszhnitz ? Buhl, Achen, Wiirm, Riss-wiirm, Riss, Mindel-riss, 
Mindel, Gunz-mindel ? Pliocene.’ All this in Hampshire ! 
Among the Civil Service Pensions recently awarded, we notice : — 
Lady Fletcher, in recognition of the services rendered by her late husband 
(Sir Lazarus Fletcher) to science, £ 60 ; Mrs. J. M. Miller, services by 
her late husband (Dr. N. H. J. Miller) to agricultural science, £50 ; 
Mrs. Alice Mabel Ussher, services by her late husband (Mr. W. A. E. 
Ussher) to geographical science, ^30 ; Mrs. Agnes E. Walker, services 
by her late husband (Mr. George W. Walker, F.R.S.) to science, ^75 ; 
the Misses Ellen C., Gertrude M., Alice B., Katherine E., and Mary 
Woodward, services by their late father (Dr. Henry Woodward, F.R.S.) 
to geological science, £125. 
1922 Aug.-Sept, 
