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for his long and valuable researches into the palaeontology of the rocks of Ireland. 

 We were quite aware that this had been a possibility for some years past, and 

 hasten to congratulate Mr Wright on his well-deserved distinction. 



The monument to Charcot will be formally unveiled on October 23rd, in the 

 Salpetriere, Paris. 



A life of William Turner of Cambridge, 1507-1568, one of, if not the earliest 

 British zoologist, has been contributed to the Zoologist for August, by the Rev. 

 H. N. Macpherson. 



A memoir of Fritz Miiller, the Brazilian naturalist, is to be undertaken by 

 Dr A. Moller, of Eberswalde. Dr Moller begs the loan of letters or material that 

 will help him in his task. 



The following grants have been made by the Berlin Academy : — 2000 marks 

 to Prof. Engler, for East African plants ; 600 marks to Prof. Graebner, for the study 

 of German Heaths ; 500 marks to Dr Loesner, to complete his monograph on the 

 Aquifoliaceae. 



Mr A. J. Herbertson, lecturer on geography in the Heriot-Watt College, 

 Edinburgh, has obtained the degree of Ph.D. multa cum laudein geography at the 

 University of Frieburg, in Baden. Dr Herbertson's thesis was on the " Distribu- 

 tion of rainfall over the earth's surface," a subject which he has investigated while 

 compiling the rainfall maps for the physical atlas about to be published by 

 Bartholomew. 



The Hon. John Macgregor has presented a cheque for £500 to the fund for 

 the endowment of a chair of Forestry in the University of Edinburgh. It will be 

 remembered that the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society has asked the 

 Government for a grant for the establishment of a State Forest near Edinburgh 

 for research in forestry. 



The Swiney Lectures on Geology, under the direction of the Trustees of the 

 British Museum, will be delivered by Dr R. H. Traquair on Mondays, 

 Wednesdays, and Fridays at 5 p.m., beginning Monday, October 3. They will 

 be on the Palaeontology of Great Britain, and will be given in the Lecture 

 Theatre of the South Kensington Museum. 



The New Whale Gallery at the British Museum is the subject of an illus- 

 trated article by Mr Lydekker in Knowledge for September 1. Owing to the 

 difficulty of position, however, the photograph does not give one a proper idea of 

 the gallery, which is well worthy a visit even from those not sjjecially interested 

 in zoology. 



We learn from Science that the Lacoe collection of fossil insects contains the 

 types of about two-thirds of those described from North America. Besides these 

 there are 3500 specimens from the Oeningen Tertiaries, and a large collection from 

 Florrisant, Colorado. The United States National Museum has now perhaps a 

 collection of fossil insects second to none, in any case it has a collection of the 

 first importance. 



The late Professor Victor Lemoine bequeathed his palaeontological collection 

 to the Paris Museum. In order that the collection may be further supplemented 

 Madame Lemoine has handed over the land at Cornay, near Rheims, whence the 

 fossils were obtained, to the same institution. 



The South African Museum has so far advanced as to issue " Annals of the 

 South African Museum," a handsome octavo serial, well illustrated by lithographic 

 plates, and printed and published in London by West, Newman & Co. It will 

 appear at irregular intervals, as matter for publication is available, and will 



