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the weird electric display, the force of the wind, and the effects 
of the fall of ice. From the Fifth Buoy Light, and right up 
and round the river, electricity was playing. Two sailing 
vessels were lighted up, everything on deck was thrown 
out in strong relief against the darkness of the coming storm. 
Then came a blinding flash as though a fireball had burst, 
followed by jagged, or forked, lightning, dancing in parallel 
vertical lines and breaking out sideways in a terrifying fashion. 
Suddenly the roar of falling hail and ice was heard, and the 
scene riverwards blotted out. A seven ton water-tank was 
blown for 800 feet along the metals and round a sharp curve ; 
a half-ton bogey was lifted clear of the line and blown through 
the hand railings into the river ; about 500 feet of rails were 
broken, and wherever the ice had struck the woodwork it was 
chipped as if rifle bullets had been fired. A salmon fisherman 
who was on the south side of the - estuary had his ' sou’-wester’ 
blown away, and it was seen, on his reaching shelter, that his 
head and face were bleeding from wounds caused by the large 
pieces of ice.* In contrast to this experience, another fisher- 
man, at Sneaton Snook, on the north side of the river, after- 
wards said there was not sufficient wind to taughten his 
mooring rope. 
We are indebted to Dr. A. S. Robinson for the accompany- 
ing illustration. 
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The Chester Society of Literature and Art has issued its Forty-third 
Annual Report, which contains a summary of the work done in the different 
sections, as well as at the Grosvenor Museum. 
From the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries we have received their 
valuable Annual Report of Sea Fisheries for the year 1913, part I., which 
is sold at 1/-, and part II. which is a similar price, contains the tables 
and charts. The compilation is a remarkable one, and contains much 
of value to the naturalist. 
The Annual Report of the Marine Biological Association of the West of 
Scotland for 1913 is a much more substantial volume than usual. Besides 
containing much information with regard to the society’s work, and 
illustrations of various forms of marine life, it includes a lecture by Pro- 
fessor MacBride on ‘ Some Problems of Marine Biology.’ The report 
contains 125 pages. 
The Journal of the Manchester Geological Society, Vol. XXIX., Parts 
III. and IV., is an unusually large and well illustrated part. There is 
a lengthy account of ' The Geography of East Yorkshire,’ illustrated 
by chart and plan, with several blocks, by Mr. T. Sheppard, F.G.S. ; 
a paper on ‘ Highways and Byways in the Balkans,’ by Mr, G. Water- 
house ; ‘ Spitsbergen : Past and Present,’ by Mr. W. S. Bruce ; ‘ The 
British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13,’ by Commander Evans, and 
" The Formation of the Soil of Hungary,’ by Professor B. de Inkey. 
* Some plumbers were working in the “ Look-out ” near the fort, when 
a piece of ice crashed through a sheet of 26 oz. glass, 4 ft. 6 in. x 3 ft., 
shattering it and falling on the floor ; one of the men took it up and the 
master plumber told me it measured upwards of 3 ins. in length, by nearly 
an inch (§) in diameter. They saw other pieces falling outside. 
19M Aug. 1, 
