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HARDWJCKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



Professor A. Schuster, Dr. E. E, Klein, Mr. Percy 

 Fitzgerald, Dr. J. A. Fleming, Dr. Felix Semon, 

 Professor W. E. Ayrton, and other gentlemen. 



We have received a reprint (Part 3) of a paper by 

 Dr. A. B. Griffiths, on his " Researches on Micro- 

 organisms." It is a bit of excellent and original work. 



The first part of a most thoughtful and suggestive 

 paper appeared in the " American Naturalist " for 

 October on " The Evolution of Mind," by Professor 

 Cope. 



The Third Part of M. Tempere's " Le Diatomiste " 

 fully keeps up its high character. The photographic 

 enlargements are a high work of art. 



We recommend our geological and entomological 

 readers to study the paper in the December issue of 

 the "Annals and Magazine of Natural History" on 

 " The Fauna of Amber," by Herr Richard Klebs, of 

 Konigsberg. 



We are pleased to see that a new edition (the 

 ihird) of Dr. E. Crookshank's " Manual of Bacteri- 

 ology," revised throughout, has just been issued. 



At length the great Darwinian, Dr. A. R. Wallace, 

 has received recognition at the hands of our Royal 

 Society. He has obtained the first Darwinian gold 

 medal. But why is he not an F.R.S. ? 



Dr. Henry Woodward figures and describes in 

 the December number of " The Geological Magazine " 

 a new Fossil British Isopod, discovered by Mr. 

 Thomas Jesson in the great Oolite of Northampton- 

 shire. 



The number of known small planets has now 

 reached three hundred. Of these, thirteen were 

 discovered last year. The first was discovered at the 

 beginning of the century. 



We have received from Mr. John Dennant, F.G.S., 

 an enthusiastic Victorian Geologist, a reprint of his 

 valuable paper entitled " Observations on the 

 Tertiary and post-Tertiary Geology of South- Western 

 Victoria." 



Mr. Montagu Brown has published, in the 

 "Transactions of the Leicester Literary and Philo- 

 sophical Society," an important paper on a " Revision 

 of a Genus of Fossil Fishes, Dapedius." 



We beg to acknowledge the reprint of an important 

 paper by Dr. C. A. Oliver, Ophthalmic-surgeon to 

 St. Agnes's Hospital, Philadelphia, on " An Analysis 

 of the Motor Symptoms and Conditions of the Ocular 

 Apparatus as observed in Imbecility, Epilepsy, and 

 the second stage of General Paralysis of the Insane." 



Mr. C. J. Gilbert's pamphlet on "The Geology 

 of Sutton-Coldfield" is an important addition to the 

 geology of the Midland Counties. Mr. Gilbert has 

 studied the locality, and done the work well. 



"Electricity in Daily Life," by F. B. Lea, is 

 a very cheap (twopence) pamphlet published by 

 E. W. Allen, to which we are pleased to draw 

 attention. 



The sixth and seventh parts of Mr. R. L. Wallace's 

 work on "British Cage Birds" are well up to the 

 high standard gained by the preceding numbers. 



Book-Buyers will find Mr. Edward Stanford's 

 recently issued "Catalogue of Maps, Atlases, and 

 Books " exceedingly useful. 



"The Naturalist's Annual and Directory 

 for 1891 " is a happy thought. The present first 

 beginning, however, is capable of considerable 

 extension. 



We have received a reprint of Mr. G. W. Bulman's 

 important paper on "A Coal-Seam in the Bernician 

 Series of Northumberland, and its Bearing on the 

 Theory of the Formation of Coal." Mr. Bulman, 

 as our readers know, is a thoughtful and original 

 writer. 



We gather that a series of pamphlets on "Every- 

 day Science " is being issued from Curtis and 

 Beamish, of Coventry. The first to hand is one on 

 " The Philosophy of Cycling," by W. R. FuUeyrove. 



The Rev J. E, Kelsall's carefully-annotated list of 

 the birds of Hampshire and Isle of Wight has been 

 reprinted, price one shilling (Southampton : the 

 " Independent " office). 



Dr. G. J. Hinde has kindly forwarded a reprint of 

 his paper from the " Annals and Magazines of 

 Natural History," on " Radiolaria from the Lower 

 Palaeozoic Rocks of the South of Scotland." We 

 have few more ardent palseontological workers than 

 Dr. Hinde. 



One of our well-known correspondents, the Rev. 

 H. W. Lett, sends us a reprint of his painstaking and 

 lengthy report (about 60 pp.) on "The Mosses, 

 Hepatics, and Lichens of the Mourne Mountain 

 District." It originally appeared in the ' ' Proceedings 

 of the Royal Irish Academy." 



Messrs. George Philip & Son, 32 Fleet Street, 

 are exhibiting a very large and complete Tellurium, 

 constructed for lecture-purposes, which illustrates the 

 complex motions of the earth and moon. It shows 

 the actual position of the earth in space for any given 

 time of the year. 



The "Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute 

 of Science of Philadelphia " contains a splendidly- 

 illustrated monograph, by W. H. Dall (Palaeontologist 

 to the U.S. Geological Survey) entitled " Contri- 

 butions to the Tertiary Fauna of Florida, with 

 Especial Reference to the Silex-Beds of Tampa, and 

 tlie Pliocene-Beds of the Caloosahahatcie River." 



