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NORTHERN NEWS. 
Xo. 7, Volume X. of Records of the Australian Museum is dovoted to 
an account of the Status of Chelonia depressa Carman, by Dene B. Fry. 
The fifth Report of the Bardney Abbey Excavations is to hand, and 
shows that a good year’s work has been done. 
According to the daily press the Starfish Luidia produces over two 
hundred million eggs. We demand a recount. 
Mr. E. R. Matthews, F.G.S., the Borough Engineer of Bridlington, 
has been appointed Professor of Municipal Engineering at the University 
of London. 
The Lincoln Museum has issued a Guide to the Collection of English 
Porcelain lent by Mr. E. \Y. Kirk. It is written by the Rev. H. \Y. Hall, 
and is sold at one penny. 
Captain S. S. Flower sends us his recent report on the Giza Zoological 
Gardens, Cairo (Publication Xo. 25), which is sold at a shilling. It contains 
some interesting views in the gardens and their contents. 
At a recent meeting of the Todmorden Town Council it was decided 
to establish refreshment rooms and a museum in the large mansion at 
Centre Yale Park, inquiries having been made as to the loan of suitable 
exhibits for the latter. 
We have received the valuable Records of Meteorological Observe tions 
taken at the Observatory, Edgbaston, 1913, by the Curator, Mr. A. 
Cresswell. It is published by the Birmingham and Midland Institute 
Scientific Society, at two shillings. 
Mr. H. Crowther, of the Leeds Museum, has been giving a series of 
lectures with one particular object, namely, ' to make the people of 1 
Leeds understand that in their midst was one of the finest collections 
of objects in England, outside London.’ 
An interesting account of Carlisle, by Adelaide Curtiss, appears in 
Records of the Past for January-February 1914. We notice this part is 
‘ Whole Series, Volume XIII., Second Series, Volume I., Part 1.’ This 
second Volume I., Part 1, within a comparatively few years of the first, 
will doubless cause confusion in the future. 
In his presidential address to the Manchester Geological and 'Mining 
Society, published in Volume 33, part 9, of its Transactions, Sir Thomas 
Holland makes some rather scathing remarks in reference to the results 
of the work of students at the Birmingham University ; particular^ with 
reference to such degrees as ‘ B.Sc., Petroleum Mining.’ 
At the Annual Meeting of the British Ornithologists’ Union on 18th 
March the principle of the Plumage Bill was approved subject to better 
provision being made for the importation of skins for scientific purposes. 
A proposal that ladies should be eligible for election as ordinary members 
of the British Ornithologists' Union was negatived by a large majority, 
as it was considered unwise to allow them to have any say or vote as 
ordinary members. The Union has Honorary Lady Members. 
We have received from Mr. T. Petch, B.A., B.Sc., a Yorkshire Xatur- 
alist now in Ceylon a batch of papers giving every evidence of his zeal 
in his present sphere of work. Among them are ‘ Papers and Records 
Relating to Ceylon Mycology and Plant Pathology, 1783-1910,’ ‘ Termite 
Fungi : A Resume,’ ‘ The Black Termite of Ceylon,’ ‘ an Orchid Xew to 
Cevlon,’ ’ Xotes on the Brazil Xut Tree in Ceylon,’ all reprinted from 
The Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniva, Volume V., part 
5 and 6; and ’ Diseases and Pests Legislation in Ceylon,’ Bulletin Xo. 6 
of the Department of Agriculture, Ceylon. 
Naturalist, 
