O. MISCELLANEOUS. 677 



the time of men of science like Mr. Parker in the amount of 

 the subsidy. 12 A, May 22, 1873, 74. 



HOXORS TO PEOFESSOE HUXLEY. 



Professor Huxley has been elected Lord Rector of the Uni- 

 versity of Aberdeen by a considerable majority over the Mar- 

 quis of Huntly, a satisfactory evidence of the estimation in 

 which eminence in science is held by the younger minds in 

 Scotland. 



EETIEEMENT OF BAEON VON MIILLEE FROM THE BOTANICAL 



GAEDEN AT MELBOUENE. 



It is Stated that, in accordance with intimations made for 

 some time past. Baron Yon Miiller will leave the director- 

 ship of the Botanical Garden at Melbourne. This gentleman, 

 by his unwearied efforts in behalf of the garden, and by his 

 high accomplishments as a botanist and general naturalist, 

 has sriven lustre to the establishment with which he has been 

 connected ; and if, as is suggested, his retirement is brought 

 about by the disinclination of the government to support his 

 plans of improvement (preferring to make the garden merely 

 a place for growing ornamental plants for the vice-regal resi- 

 dence), it is a fact certainly much to the discredit of our an- 

 tipodean neighbors. 12 A, August 14, 1873, 334. 



TEECENTENAEY OF THE BIETH OF COPEENICUS. 



The original manuscript of the great work, "De Revolu- 

 tionibus Orbium Ccelestium," of the immortal Pole, Coperni- 

 cus, has been safely preserved in Prague for three hundred 

 years, and is now being published as a part of the collection 

 of writings issued to commemorate the thii-d centennial anni- 

 versary of his birth. It will be remembered that this most 

 interesting work, which has virtually been the foundation of 

 modern astronomy, was originally printed during the latter 

 years of his life, but not altogether under the personal super- 

 vision of the author, and was immediately proscribed by the 

 Romish Church, so that few if any copies of the original 

 edition are now extant. The numerous subsequent editions 

 have given the original text in a more or less mutilated state, 

 and it is as a Avelcome contribution to astronomical litera- 

 ture that we are now to have a faithful copy of the work as 



