140 NATURAL SCIENCE. Feb, 



University College of North Wales has renewed the research scholarship of Mr. 

 E. T. Jones, who has recently been studying at Berlin. The Berlin Academy of 

 Sciences has awarded Dr. Paul Kuckuck 1,200 marks for the continuance of his 

 investigations on the Algae of Heligoland. 



The University of Kiev is founding a bacteriological laboratory at a cost 01 

 £10,000. 



The awards of the Geological Society have been bestowed as follows : — The 

 Wollaston Medal, Sir A. Geikie ; Wollaston Fund, W. W. Watts ; Murchison 

 Medal, Professor G. Lindstrom ; Murchison Fund, A. C. Seward ; Bigsby Medal, 

 C. D. Walcott ; Lyell Medal and part of the Fund, Professor J. F. Blake; the 

 remaining part of the Fund is divided between Benjamin Harrison and Percy F. 

 Kendall. 



The Rev Professor Thomas Wiltshire has resigned the Treasurership of the 

 Geological Society. Professor Wiltshire has served the Society in this capacity for 

 thirteen years, and no one will grudge him his well-earned rest. He succeeded 

 Gwyn Jeffreys in 1882. 



Mr. Wilfrid Mark WeBB, of the Technical Laboratory, Essex County 

 Council, has been added to the editorial staff of The Journal of Malacology. The 

 journal, originally called The Conchologist, was founded in 1891 by Walter Edward 

 Collinge, of whom a biography and portrait appears in no. 4 of volume iii. 



Mr. Horace B. Woodward has been appointed " Resident Geologist " to the 

 Geological Survey, in the room of the late Mr. William Topley. Mr. Woodward 

 joined in 1S67, and is known to our readers as the author of " The Geology of England 

 and Wales.'' Mr. Clement Reid, who joined the Survey in 1874, has been promoted 

 to the rank of " Geologist," after twenty years' service. Mr. Reid's chief work has 

 been accomplished on the interesting deposits exposed in the Norfolk Coast, and 

 in a re-survey of the Cretaceous and Tertiary deposits of Southern England, and 

 especially of the Isle of Wight. 



A new second-class assistantship has been created in the British Museum 

 (Natural History), Cromwell Road. This has been filled by Mr. George Francis 

 Hampson, who has been specially appointed by the Trustees and the Treasury to 

 continue his work on the moths, a work on which he has been engaged at the 

 Museum for some years in an unofficial way. We understand that Mr. Hampson, 

 who is " over age," has not been troubled with the customary ordeal of competitive 

 examination. We believe that this appointment has been made in deference to 

 strong pressure brought to bear by entomologists who have long felt that this depart- 

 ment of the Museum is considerably undermanned. It is to be hoped that other 

 members of the scientific public will similarly interest themselves in other depart- 

 ments of the British Museum, which are quite unable to cope with the enormous 

 quantities of material that annually pour into that institution. 



The annual meeting of the Geological Society of London will be held on 

 February 15, at 3 o'clock, when the president, Dr. Henry Woodward, will deliver 

 his annual address, which will deal with the Palaeozoic Crustacea; that of 

 the Geologists' Association on Friday evening, February 1, at 7.30 p.m., when 

 General McMahon, the president, will read his address, entitled, " The Geological 

 History of the Himalayas" ; that of the Quekett Microscopical Club on February 

 15, at 8 p.m. 



