HO NATURAL SCIENCE. Feb., 



of the professor is to be placed in the University museum, and " will remind present 

 and future students that he was the chief mover in the creation of the museum and 

 the development of the Radcliffe Library as a centre of physical science in Oxford." 



The Fishmongers' Company has given to the City and Guilds Technical 

 College, Finsbury, a scholarship of ;^6o per annum in memory of Professor Huxley. 

 This is to be held three years by any scholar of the Finsbury College who has given 

 evidence of high scientific attainments, to enable him to proceed to the Central 

 College at Kensington 



The million dollars demanded by Mr. J. D. Rockefeller, as a condition of his 

 own gift of the same amount to Chicago University, has been produced by Miss 

 Helen Culver. The sum is assigned to the biological department. It is probable 

 that a school of medicine will be established. 



We learn from the Manchester Guardian that considerable improvements have 

 recently been made in the museum and art galleries at Peel Park, Salford, We are 

 not so much concerned with the additions to the picture galleries and those illus- 

 trating manufactures, as with gallery C, devoted to the ethnographical section, and 

 rooms F and G, which have recently been handed over to the geological section. 

 The ethnographical specimens have lately been arranged on a system such as will 

 enable them to appeal more effectively to the public intelligence. Beginning with 

 prehistoric man, and working up through palaeanthropic and neanthropic ages into 

 the early historic, mediaeval, and recent eras, the specimens terminate at one place 

 with flint-and-steel implements. The specimens following are grouped geographically, 

 and illustrate the weapons and utensils, clothing, etc., used by different races all 

 over the world. The geological rooms have been put in order by Herbert Bolton, 

 of the Manchester Museum, Owens College. The classification of the specimens 

 has brought out a large amount of material formerly stowed away and hardly 

 recognised as existing. Consec[uently, two series of wall-cases, each about fifty feet 

 in length by six feet high, have been added. These contain larger specimens which 

 are not well adapted, on account of their size, for exhibition in the table cases. The 

 Coal-measures, on account of their importance to the district, take a large amount 

 of space for their illustration, but choice specimens are much needed of coal-plants, 

 most of those form.erly possessed by the museum having fallen to pieces. The 

 general arrangement of the specimens is stratigraphical, and Sir Henry Howorth, 

 whose influence, perhaps, is traceable here, will be glad to see that the last table- 

 case, which contains specimens illustrative of the most recent phase of geological 

 history, has been arranged in agreement with the contents of a special case in the 

 anthropological gallery, the latter arranged by the curator as an introduction to the 

 general anthropological collections. By this means, it is hoped the visitor will 

 carry his studies from either of the sections to the other, while the arrangement 

 emphasises the general continuity of prehistoric and historic time. 



A special department of practical geology illustrates the chief coals of the 

 Lancashire coalfield, and a small selection of other coals, together with a series 

 showing the chief stages in the process of change from peat to coal. There is also 

 a section of building-stones, which is intended to form a group more especially 

 illustrative of those used in Salford and Manchester, and, whenever possible, two 

 specimens of each will be shown, one fresh from the quarry, the other from some 

 building where it has been exposed to the action of the weather for a number of 

 years. In the latter case, the aspect of the building-stone will be indicated, the 

 number of years it has been weathered, and the deterioration which has resulted. 

 One feature of interest to the geologist is the extensive use of photographs. Most 

 of these show the action of geological processes over large areas, as, for example, 

 the destruction of cliffs, the formation of river valleys, and the appearance presented 

 by eruptive rocks. The photographs, like the specimens, are mainly illustrative of 

 British geology, although, for the sake of completeness, foreign specimens are being 

 introduced to represetit those periods which have left no traces in the British Isles. 

 The work is being rapidly pushed forward, and it is hoped that the rooms may be 

 thrown open again to the public in March. 



