I50 NATURAL SCIENCE. August. 



The editors ask for an exchange of pubHcations, and particularly desire papers 

 relating to South America. Address 399, Caixa do Correio, Para, Brazil. 



The collection of European Lepidoptera formed by Th. Goossens has been pre- 

 sented by his widow to the Museum of the Association des Naturalistes de Levallois- 

 Perret. We also learn from the Fcuille dcs Jeunes Natui'dlistes that the Society has 

 moved to more commodious premises in the Rue Lannois. 



In his address before the Geological Society last February, recently received, Dr. 

 Henry Woodward referred to the fact that thirty-five years ago Leonard Horner, as 

 President of the Society, with the concurrence of Sir Charles Lyell, Sir Roderick 

 Murchison, and other members of Council, decided to arrange for the admittance of 

 ladies to the evening meetings of the Society. It is believed that the Misses Horner 

 attended those meetings, which, by the way, were held at the apartments of the 

 Royal Society ; but the attempt was soon abandoned as a failure. 



The sixty-fifth meeting of the British Association will be held at Ipswich on 

 September 11, under the presidency of Sir Douglas Gallon. Professor Meldola will 

 preside over the Chemical Section ; Mr. Whitaker over the Geological ; Professor 

 Herdman over the Zoological ; Mr. H. J. Mackinder over the Geographical ; 

 Professor Flinders Petrie over the Anthropological ; and Mr. Dyer over the 

 Botanical Section. The Physiological Section will not meet ; papers on the subject 

 will, however, be read in the Zoological Section. 



The Association visited Ipswich in 1851. The town possesses a fine museum, 

 celebrated more especially for its geological collections (crag). Geological e.^ccur- 

 sions to the Crag districts and the Crorner cliffs are being organised, and marine 

 dredging excursions will be made down the Orwell from Ipswich to Harwich. 

 Excursions of general interest will be arranged to Bury St. Edmunds, Colchester, 

 the Broads, Cambridge, Brandon, Dunwich, Wenham, and other places. 



The third International Congress of Physiology will be held at Berne, September 

 9-13. Those interested should write to Professor Kronecker, of Berne. The sub- 

 scription is fixed at 10 francs. 



At an International Conference on the Protection of Wild Birds, held in Paris 

 the last week in June, under the Presidency of M. Gadaud, Minister of Agriculture, 



a convention was adopted providing for the preservation of species useful to agri- 

 culture throughout Europe. England was represented by Sir Herbert Maxwell, 

 Bart., M.P., Mr. Howard Saunders, and Mr. Harford of the British Embassy. 

 The countries which sent delegates besides P"rance were Germany, Russia, Austro- 

 Hungary, Belgium, Holland, Luxemburg, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Greece, and 

 Spain. 



The International Geographical Congress promises to be a success, if one may 

 judge from the names of intending visitors. We shall give some account of it in our 

 next number. 



The Galway Conference of the Irish Field-Club Union on July 11-17, to which 

 we briefly referred in our last number, proved a great success. An excellent 

 circular, with reproductions of some of Welch's and Dixon's photographs, was 

 issued to the members. A full and illustrated account will be published in the Irish 

 Naturalist for September. 



The beautiful wooden statue of the double of the Egyptian king Ra-Fou-Ab, 

 found by the De Morgan exploration party in one of the pyramids of Dahshur, has 

 been reproduced in Nature (June 6) from Le Monde Modernc. The statue is believed 



