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edition. Among recent improvements in this museum is the formation of a students' 

 geological collection, comprising between 600 and 700 specimens of fossils, rocks, 

 and minerals, intended for the use of students studying geology for examinations. 

 A catalogue of the collection, printed on one side the page, has been issued at the 

 price of sixpence. The nomenclature of the catalogue follows that of accepted 

 text-books. 



The Boston Transcript, as quoted in Science, announces that Mr. Charles B. Gary, 

 Curator of the Ornithological Department of the Field Columbian Museum, has 

 established at Palm Beach, Florida, a museum devoted to the natural history of the 

 State, which is soon to be opened to the public. An excellent collection of birds, 

 reptiles, mammals, fishes, etc., is already in order, and aquaria are to be fitted up 

 for the study of salt- and fresh-water fishes. 



From the Botanical Gazette we learn that the New York Botanic Garden has 

 purchased the collections and part of the mycological library of Mr. J. B. EUis, of 

 Newfield, N.J. The herbarium contains numbers of type-specimens of fungi. It 

 will be housed in the Museum now building at the Garden. 



The National Museum at Washington is to erect an additional fire-proof 

 building. 



An International Congress of Miners and Geologists will be held at Buda- 

 Pesth during the Hungarian Millennial Exhibition, on September 25 and 26 next. 



The Irish Naturalist announces the summer excursion programme of the Dublin 

 Field Club, namely :— April 25, Bray and Killiney (geological half-day) ; May 30, 

 Lambay Island; June 20, Bective and the Boyne ; July 10, 11, and 13, Cavan ; 

 August 12, Kelly's Glen (half-day) ; September 5, Brittas Bay, co. Wicklow ; 

 September 20, Woodlands (fungus foray, half-day). The excursion to Cavan, when 

 three days will be spent exploring the many lakes, rivers, and woods of that beautiful 

 county, should prove especially productive, as the district is one almost unworked 

 by the naturalist. 



A SOCIETY has been formed at Ipswich for the protection of wild birds and 

 their eggs in Suffolk. Portions of the Suffolk coast are under the protection of a 

 Home Office order prohibiting the taking or destroying of eggs, in accordance with 

 the Protection Acts. The work which the new society has set itself to do is to 

 secure the protection of the whole area, and to appoint watchers to secure the 

 enforcement of the existing order. 



The Technical Instruction Committee of the Essex County Council proposes 

 to give a special course of instruction in marine zoology at the Biological Station of 

 Brightlingsea during the summer months. The course is intended for students, and 

 is the outcome of the lectures and practical instruction given at Brightlingsea during 

 the past winter. The students of the botanical classes held at Chelmsford 

 Laboratory are organising some field meetings for May, June, and July. 



Mr. a. a. Campbell Swinton has opened a special laboratory for the 

 medical application of radiography or skiagraphy at his address, 66 Victoria Street, 

 London, S.W. 



While regretting the sad loss of life that occurred at the opening of the 

 Snowdon railway, lovers of nature cannot regard the accident to the train in the 

 light of an unmixed evil, especially if it does anything to check the desecration of 

 the few remaining spots of wild nature that still remain to us. 



