O. MISCELLANEOUS. 615 



the country, receives an additional illustration in the estab- 

 lishment of the Natural History Society of Marquette, Michi- 

 gan, which was organized during the month of December, 

 1871, under the presidency of Dr. Hewitt. Marquette Min- 

 ing Journal, December 16, 1871. 



VICE-CHANCELLORSHIP OP SIR JOHN LUBBOCK. 



Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., F.R.S., so well known for 

 his researches into the history of prehistoric man and the 

 earliest forms of civilization, has been elected Vice-Chancellor 

 of the University of London, which has always taken the lead 

 among the English universities in recognizing the impor- 

 tance of the cultivation of natural science. 



MURCIIISON GEOLOGICAL FUND. 



Sir Roderick Murchison has bequeathed 1000 to the Lon- 

 don Geological Society, to be known as the Murchison Geolog- 

 ical Fund, the proceeds of which are to be annually devoted 

 by the council to the encouragement and assistance of geo- 

 logical investigation. 12 A,December .14, 1871, 130. 



SCIENTIFIC APPOINTMENTS IN PARIS. 



Albert Gaudry, the well-known author of the work upon 

 the paleontology of Mount Pikermy, in Greece, and of other 

 memoirs, has been nominated as Professor of Paleontology 

 in the Museum of Natural History of Paris. Charles Sainte- 

 Claire Deville has been appointed inspector-general of the me- 

 teorological stations of France ; while Mario-Davy becomes 

 chief of the service of meteorological and terrestrial physics. 



ELECTION OF M. LOEWY TO THE BUREAU DES LONGITUDES. 



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The position in the Bureau of Longitudes of France, ren- 

 dered vacant by the death of M. Laugier, has been 'filled 

 through the election of M. Loewy by the French Academy 

 of Sciences. 12 A, August 15,1872,304. 



MEDAL OF THE HAARLEM SOCIETY OF SCIENCES. 



The Society of Sciences at Haarlem celebrated its 120th 

 annual meeting on the 18th of May last, and decreed the 

 Boerhaave Medal to Mr. II. C. Sorby for the microscopical in- 

 vestigations carried on by him upon the structure of miner- 



