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Northern News. 
The Local Committee likewise provided a description of 
the Corporation Plate and Regalia which was exhibited in 
the Reception Room during the meeting. Each member 
received the Journal, issued by the Association, and also a 
List of Members. 
In preparing the Handbook an attempt was made to 
secure the work of the best authorities available, and the 
general result seems to have been satisfactory. 
In addition to the literature mentioned, arrangements 
were made for a daily programme to be issued free to members, 
in which the various meetings throughout the day were set 
forth, hour by hour, this proving to be a great convenience, 
and was greatly appreciated, as it simplied the task of searching" 
through the Local Programme and Journal. 
A feature of the Local Programme was the insertion of 
portraits of the various officers of the Association, the chair- 
men of local sub committees, the local secretaries of sections, 
and others, for whom the members might be in search. 
As the present writer happened to be one of the local 
secretaries, he cannot say much in reference to the success 
of the meeting : he is satisfied, however, that the hard work 
for several months past has not been in vain. — T.S. 
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Part i of Vol. XV. of The Lancashire and Cheshire Naturalist reverts 
to its original editor, Mr. W. H. Western. 
The Geological Society of London has issued the ' Abstracts of the 
Proceedings,' Nos. 1075-1090 (98 pp., 6s.). 
A third edition of ‘A Short Guide to the Museum of Practical Geology* 
Jermyn Street, London,’ (44 pp., 2d.), has recently been published. 
E. O. Ulrich, in a paper on Major Causes of Land and Sea Oscillations 
(, Smithsonian Report, published 1922), describes a palaeontologist as ‘ a 
kind of geologist who should be seen but not heard on physiographic and 
diastrophic questions..’ 
There are three Yorkshire species figuring in Part 35 of Buckman’s 
‘ Type Ammonites ' : — (a) Perisphinctes subbakeriae, South Cave = 
Anaplanulites difficilis, var. Macrocephalitan, Catacephalites. (b). 
‘ Ammonites koenigi ’ Gristhorpe ; Proplanulites arciraga Teisseyre, 
Proplanulitan, fracidus. ( c ) Ammonites vernoni, Scarborough ; Klem~ 
atrosphinctes vernoni Bean -Young, sp. Cardioceratan, vernoni. 
Among the contents of The Annual Report, etc., of the Bristol 
Naturalists’ Society, we notice ‘ Natural Sources of Energy,’ by Dr. 
E. H. Cook ; ‘ The Influence of Environment on the Development of 
Prehistoric Man,’ by Dr. L. S. Palmer ; ‘ Bristol Botany,’ by J. W. 
White ; ‘ Lightning Discharge at Bridlington Church,’ by E. H. Cook ; 
and ' Carboniferous Limestone of Broadfield Down,’ by F. S. Wallis. 
The Transactions of the British Mycological Society (Vol. VII., pt. 6) 
contain ‘ Lichens of Haslemere Distfict,’ by H. Knight ; ‘ Fruit Bodies 
of Dacryomyces Deliquescens, ’ by Prof. A. Buller ; ‘ Wood Staining Fungi, ’ 
by B. D. MacCallum ; ‘ Slugs on Mycophagists, ’ by Prof. Buller ; ‘ Wil- 
ting of Michaelmas Daisies,’ by W. J. Dowson ; ‘ A Discomycete found 
on Medlar Fruits,’ by H. Wormald ; ' Studies in Discomycete,’ by Jessie 
Elliott ; and other items. 
Naturalist 
