354 NATURAL SCIENCE [November 



By a slip last month we recorded an item of news that belonged to last year. 

 Mr J. H. Collins was this year the recipient of the Bolitho Gold Medal. 



Prof. G. S. Morse has received from the Emperor of Japan the Order of the 

 Tbird Class of the Bising Sun " in recognition of your signal service while you 

 were in the faculty of science in the Imperial University of Tokio, and also in 

 opening in our country the way for zoological, ethnological, and anthropological 

 science, and in establishing the institutions for the same." 



Prop. Dr Simon Schwenderer, Director of the botanical institute of the 

 Berlin University, has been made a knight of the order Pour le Merite, in the 

 class of Science and Art. 



Professor Knuth of Kiel started in October on a scientific expedition round 

 the world. According to the Botanisches Centralblatt, he will be away eight or ten 

 months, and will visit India, Java, China, Jaj^an, Hawaii, and North America. 



The Hayden Memorial Geological Award for 1898 goes to Prof. Otto Martin 

 Torell, director of the Geological Survey of Sweden. It is conferred by the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and consists of a bronze medal and 

 the interest on the endowment funds. 



Mr W. P. Pycraft of the British Museum has been entrusted with the 

 examination and description of the embryology, pterylography, etc., of the 

 Megapodes and other birds, collected by the Willey Expedition. 



Mr W. B. Ogilvie Grant of the British Museum, and Dr H. O. Forbes of 

 the Liverpool Museum, accompanied by a taxidermist, leave on the 28th October 

 for a scientific exploration of the Island of Socotra. They will remain there 

 about three months, and will make a general collection of the natural history of 

 the island. Among other interesting things to be looked for are supposed new 

 forms of a wild goat and a wild ass. Dr Forbes will no doubt get a few lessons 

 in turtle-riding. 



We understand that a paper left behind by the late Felix Bernard of Paris, 

 entitled "Recherches ontogeniques et morphologique sur la coquille des Lamelli- 

 branches" will be published shortly in the Annates des Sciences Naturelles. We 

 are extremely glad to find that some one is looking after the manuscripts of our 

 lamented friend. 



The Botanical Gazette states that Mr A. A. Heller has resigned his position 

 at the University of Minnesota, to devote himself entirely to collecting. Corre- 

 spondence having reference to the Exchange Bureau should therefore be addressed 

 to Prof. Conway Macmillan. 



Dr Scharff and Mr Welch have, according to the Irish Naturalist, made a pre- 

 liminary dredging trip to Lough Neagh, with interesting results. Dr Scharff and 

 Mr G. H. Carpenter made a preliminary exploration of Macgillicuddy's Beeks in 

 September and hope to publish their results shortly in the above-named journal. 



Sir Dyce Duckworth delivered the Harveian Oration at the College of 

 Physicians on October 18. Dr Wm. Ord will deliver the Bradshaw Lecture 

 on November 10. The Goulstonian Lectures for 1899 will be devoted to the 

 pathology of the thyroid gland, and will be delivered by Dr G. R. Murray. The 

 1899 Lumleian Lectures will be delivered by Dr Samuel Gee. The Croonian 

 Lecturer for 1899 is Prof. Bradbury, and for 1900 Dr F. W. Mott— Nature. 



The Biological Station of the University of Indiana will next year be in 

 Winona Park, Warsaw, Inch, eighteen miles from its present station in Vawter 

 Park. One hundred and five students, representing eight States, were present 

 this year, the session closing on August 18. The session consisted of two terms 



