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NORTHERN NEWS. 
In a species of Horatian Ode, entitled ‘ Modernity,’ in a recent 
issue -of Punch we read :-r-. 
‘ For savants undoubtedly British, 
Who showed by their meeting at Hull 
A talent for ways that are skittish, 
A horror of all that is dull ; 
For medicos blandly coquetting 
With French and his psychical pranks ; 
For Deans their decorum forgetting— 
Oh ! let us give thanks.’ 
Mr. Major Lawson has prepared a ‘ Descriptive Catalogue of the Old 
Bayle Gate and its contents, Bridlington,’ (14 pp.). 
The University of Leeds, in conjunction with the Leeds Philosophical 
and Literary Society, has issued a fine syllabus of Public Lectures. 
The scheme for the erection of a new Museum and Art Gallery in the 
Botanic Gardens, Belfast, has been agreed to by the Belfast Corporation, 
and an expenditure of ^80,000 ‘ for the first fragment ’ has been authorised. 
In a recent paper on ‘Jurassic Plants from Ceylon, ’ Prof. A. C. Seward 
draws attention to the close similarity between the species from Ceylon 
and those found in the Jurassic rocks in Yorkshire, Graham Land, 
and other regions. - 
Parts XIV. -XV. of a ‘ Practical Handbook of British Birds ’ (Pages 
449-624 of Vol. II.), edited by H. F. Witherby, has recently appeared 
and deals with the Grebes, Divers, Grouse, Plovers, Sandpipers, etc. 
There is the usual wealth of illustration, including some valuable plates 
showdng Nestlings in Down. 
Besides the reports of the officers and recorders, the Fifty-first Annual 
Report and Proceedings of the Chester Society of Natural Science, Literature 
and Art contains the address delivered at the Jubilee Meeting of the- 
Society, on ‘ Charles Kingsley and the Chester Naturalists, ’ by Sir 
William A. Herdman, C.B.E., F.R.S. 
Bulletin No. 6 of the Bureau of Bio -Technology contains papers on 
‘ Micro-organisms in the Leather Trade ’ ; ‘ The Detection and Esti- 
mation of Fluorides ’ ; Study of the Causation of Ropiness in Worts and 
Beers ’ ; ‘ Speckled Malt ’ ; and a Note on ‘ “ Spued ” Leathers.’ The 
contributors are F. A. Mason, N. K. Smitt, P. Hampshire, F. Brown 
and J. S. Mitchell. 
The Pickering Urban District Council has decided to place a room in 
the Memorial Hall for use as a museum, and we understand that Dr. 
J. L. Kirk has presented his fine collection of local ‘ by-gones,’ etc.. 
It seems a pity that this has not occurred a little earlier and thus have 
kept the fine collection of pre -historic remains formerly, on exhibition 
there, in the town. These are now at York. 
At the concluding meeting of the British Association a party went from 
Hull to Leeds, where the honorary degree of Doctor of Science was conferred 
upon the following, by Professor A. Smithells, of the Leeds University : — 
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, G.B.E., President of the British Associ- 
ation ; the Due de Broglie, Institut d’Optique, Paris ; Dr. C. G. Petersen, 
director of the Danish Biological Station, Copenhagen ; and Prof. P. 
Weiss, director of the Institut de Physique, University of Strasbourg. 
Our American friends do not mince matters in connexion with their 
publications. We have recently received one or two pamphlets from a 
well-known Institution, with a postcard containing the following 
information : — ' We are correcting and revising our mailing list. Please 
fill in above blanks, place stamp on other side and mail at once. If 
this request is not complied with within 20 days, name will be stricken 
from list, and thereafter .... Publications may be acquired by pur- 
chase only. In the future, publications not received through failure to 
notify of change of address may be acquired by purchase only.’ 
Naturalist 
