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EDITORIAL. 
RETIREMENT OF PROFESSOR GARSTANG. 
At the end of the present session Professor Walter Garstang, 
F.R.S., is retiring from the Chair of Zoology in the University 
of Leeds, which he has occupied for twenty-five years. His 
many friends in Yorkshire will hear of this with regret and 
also that he is proposing to take up his residence in Oxford 
after his retirement. Professor Garstang’s services to Natural 
History have been great and his interest in the Yorkshire 
Naturalists’ Union and in the Leeds Philosophical and Literary 
Society have made him very widely known in the North of 
England. His lectures were always welcome, not only for 
the knowledge they displayed, but also for their inimitable 
style. His many friends in Leeds wish to take this opportunity 
of expressing in some concrete manner, their feelings on this 
occasion. A testimonial fund has, therefore, been opened 
and subscriptions may be sent to Dr. LI. Lloyd, the Treasurer, 
at Elmsall Lodge, Lidgett Lane, Leeds 8. 
DR. FRANK ELGEE. 
Among the honorary degrees conferred at the summer 
graduation of the University of Leeds was that of Doctor of 
Philosophy, awarded to Mr. Frank Elgee, Curator of the 
Dorman Memorial Museum, Middlesborough, in recognition 
of his services to natural history and archaeology. Mr. Elgee ’s 
work on North East Yorkshire is well known, and our readers 
will join with us in congratulating him on the honour he has 
thus received, and on this timely recognition of his work. 
DR. J. GRAINGER. 
Readers of The Naturalist will hear with pleasure of the 
appointment of Dr. J. Grainger as Curator of the Tolson 
Memorial Museum, Huddersfield. Dr. Grainger is a graduate 
of Leeds University and, after doing research there, he 
subsequently spent two years on research in the United States 
of America. His research work has dealt chiefly with the 
virus diseases of plants, a subject of great economic importance. 
His work on horticulture and botany since his return to 
England is well known in Yorkshire. 
The Tolson Museum, under the direction of Dr. T. W. 
Woodhead, has always been intimately in sympathy with the 
interests of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union. In Dr. 
Grainger, Yorkshire naturalists will recognise the right person 
to continue this relationship. It may be hoped further that 
Dr. Grainger’s new post will allow him to continue to take 
an active part in the work of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union. 
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