304 
Northern News. 
The Annual Report of the Scottish Marine Biological Station for 1920 
contains ‘ Faunistic Notes and New Records,' and ‘Notes on the Food 
of the Cod,' by Richard Elmhirst. 
The Report of the Plymouth Municipal Museum and Art Gallery on 
the work done at the Museum from April, 1908, to March, 1922, is a 
particularly readable pamphlet, and explains the various directions in 
which the museum's activities have found vent. 
Part 3 of Vol. XXXIII. of The Proceedings of the Geologists’ Associa- 
tion contains the Presidential Address of W. Whitaker, F.R.S., on 
‘ Hjnts.’ ; ‘ The Graptolite Fauna of the British Isles : A Study in 
Evolution,’ by Dr. Gertrude L. Elies ; and ‘ The Geological Structure 
of the country around Combe Martin, North Devon,’ by Dr. J. W. 
Evans . 
The- British Museum (Natural History) has recently issued the Tenth 
Edition of its Guide to the Fossil Reptiles, Amphibians, and Fishes in 
the Department of Geology and Palceontology (112 pp., 8 plates, and 117 
text-figures, 2s.), and the Second Edition of its Guide to the Specimens 
of the Horse Family ( Equidae ) exhibited in The Department of Zoology 
(44 pp,, 26 figures, is.) 
The ninety -ninth Report of the Whitby Literary and Philosophical 
Society (34 pp.) contains some valuable local natural history notes 
(birds and fishes). ‘ The Rise and Fall of the Jet Trade,’ by T. H. 
Woodwark, and ‘Whitby Churchyard,’ by Chancellor Austen, from 
which we learn that one epitaph reads, ‘ She had two bad legs and a 
baddish cough ; but her legs it was as carried her off.’ 
We have received from Erland Nordenskiold ‘ Ethno -geographical 
analysis of the material culture of two Indian tribes in the Gran Chaco,” 
which contains 300 pages with illustrations, the whole memoir being 
printed in English. It is a translation of the edition published in 1918, 
and has been prepared at the expense of Consul-General Axel Johnson, 
the Managing Director of the Steamship Line which bears his name. 
From Messrs. Macmillan & Co., we have received Vol. I. of Empire 
Forestry, the Journal of the Empire Forestry Association, Imperial 
Institute, London. (126 pp., 4s.) The publication contains’ contri- 
butions dealing with various aspects of the subject, the articles being 
as varied as Forestry in the Empire ; Western Australia as a Producer 
of Fine Timber ; Forest Fires in Canada ; Timber Testing in India ; 
Sylvicultural Treatment of Eucalypts ; The Australian Forest League ; 
The Douglas Fir Flagstaff at Kew ; and Tree-Worship in India. This 
new publication is welcome. 
The following extract from the Annual Report of the Royal United 
Service Institution, Whitehall, is worth repeating ‘ At the anniversary 
meeting the chairman of the Museum Committee, Commander Caborne, 
said that, when the Imperial War Museum was started, it was suggested 
that the museum of the Institution should form part of it ; the Council 
never considered the proposal seriously or thought of leaving its home 
in the Palace of Whitehall. The Council was, however, strongly in 
favour of taking over and incorporating the Imperial War Museum if 
a new building had been provided, specially designed to meet all the 
requirements of the case.’ 
In the daily press Mr. E. A. Martin makes the brilliant suggestion 
to ‘ those who have heavy books on their shelves. Such books should be 
turned upside-down frequently, and as far as possible for periods equal 
to those during which they stand the right way up. Heavy books, when 
always standing on one end, have a tendancy to tear away from their 
binding at the top. This is because the covers are usually larger than 
the size of the pages. By alternating their positions the wear is equally 
distributed between the top and the bottom of the back of books. We 
would suggest that he brings his idea forward to, say, the Geological 
Society of London — of which he is a Fellow. 
Naturalist 
