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BOTANICAL SECTION MEETING. 
This section again met at Leeds University on the kind invitation of 
Professor Priestley. In the afternoon the reports of the various com- 
mittees were presented and discussed and the various officers and 
committees were considered. At the opening, the Chairman, Professor 
Priestley, referred to the loss the section had sustained by the death 
of the Recorder for North Yorkshire, Mr. A. I. Burnley, of Scarborough, 
and the members showed their sympathy by standing. Mrs. Priestley, 
with the aid of Mrs. Grist and other ladies, supplied a welcome cup of 
tea and afterwards Dr. Pearsall spoke on work he had been engaged on 
for the last two years in the Lake District on the question of light effect 
at various depths of water. He contrasted his results with those obtained 
in dense woodland shade and showed the advantage obtained by the use 
of the Photo-voltaic cell. 
He instanced the differences between Windermere, Ennerdale and 
Bassenthwaite and suggested the factors contributing to these differences 
and concluded with references to changes which are still taking place 
in Windermere in which lake various investigators have recorded work 
since 1908. 
Miss Scott had arranged a series of microscopes showing an interesting 
but unfortunately rare alga, Hydrodictyon reticulatum and these she 
explained and spoke of the alga in all its various stages. 
A very hearty vote of thanks was given to Professor and Mrs. Priestley 
and to the lecturers and others who had helped to make the meeting 
so successful. 
REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTICES. 
Bird Notes and News, Summer Number, 1933, p. 154. Barn 
Owls in W. Yorks. : ‘ A lair of Barn Owls are nesting and rearing four 
young ones in a barn within two miles of Huddersfield Association 
Football Field. Two members of the Brighouse Naturalists’ Society 
were, in their work as masons, engaged in strengthening the walls of the old 
barn within five yards of the nest. The birds took no notice of them, 
one sitting on the nest and the other on the rafters close by during the 
whole time The farmer promised to allow no one else admission 
until the owlets were ready to fly.’ 
Lions, Wild and Friendly, by E. F. V. Wells, F.R.G.S., F.L.S., 
pp. xii-f-112 with 55 illustrations in photogravure. Cassell, 8/6. The 
author of this beautiful work turned from the destruction of big game 
in Africa to a study of the habit of the living animal and this book alone 
is amply justification for the change. It deals entirely with lions, the 
author and his wife having reared thirty of these fine creatures. He has 
had the good fortune to carry out his studies in the native haunts of the 
lion and has many interesting and original observations and conclusions 
to record. The illustrations are very fine and although titles are lacking 
throughout, the text usually supplies the deficiency quite well. These 
photographs of fine, healthy, live lions and their cubs are infinitely to 
be preferred to those of carcases of animals shot by big game hunters. 
Children’s Books on Natural History are a somewhat recent develop- 
ment and three have recently appeared which merit distinct commenda- 
tion. One of these is Taddy Tadpole, by Olwen Bowen (Nelson, 
2/6), which deals with life in a pond and the adventures of a tadpole 
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