422 NATURAL SCIENCE. june. 



remarks on the present situation of Sunday opening from the Bishop of Winchester, 

 Canon S. A. Barnett, Lord Hobhouse, G. J. Holyoake, and Mark H. Judge. 



The Museum of the Canadian Geological Survey at Ottawa contains a number 

 of valuable specimens, by no means confined to rocks and fossils. During 1895 it 

 was visited by nearly 27,000 people, and has therefore some popularity. The 

 building, however, is too small for the proper exhibition, and even preservation, of 

 the collections. Dr. G. M. Dawson, in his Summary Report recently issued, urges 

 that provision should be made by the Government for the proper accommodation of 

 the specimens. 



In connection with the office of the Iowa Geological Survey at Des Moines, 

 a museum has been established, chiefly devoted to the economic geology of the 

 State. Samples of building-stones, brick-earths, clays, and minerals from the lead 

 and zinc regions have been gathered together. A large number of photographs of 

 geological interest have been made, and copies of these are offered at cheap rates to 

 the various schools and colleges of the State. 



Ax appropriation of $500,000 has been made by the Government of New York 

 for building a third wing to the American Museum of Natural History. 



The American correspondent of Nature states that Castle Garden, in New York 

 City, has been converted into an aquarium, pure sea-water being filtered from the 

 adjoining harbour through the underlying strata. 



The Oxford University Junior Scientific Club held a successful conversazione 

 in the University Museum on Tuesday, May 26. The fifth Robert Boyle lecture 

 will be delivered on Tuesday, June 2, by Prof. W. Ramsay, on Argon and Helium. 



A COMPLAINT was made last year that geology was unrepresented among the 

 new Fellows of the Royal Society. This year, however, we note in the list of 

 selected candidates the names of Dr. G. J. Hinde, whose accurate work on minute 

 and obscure fossil structures, places him in the front rank of living pateontologists ; 

 Professor H. A. Miers, of Oxford, late of the British Museum ; and Mr. H. B. 

 Woodward, of the Geological Survey. Other branches of natural science are repre- 

 sented by Dr. F. W. Mott, the lecturer on physiology at Charing Cross Hospital and 

 Secretary of the Neurological Society; Dr. John Murray, of the " Challenger " ; 

 the Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, whose lively notes on Crustacea are familiar to our 

 readers ; Professor Charles Stewart, of the Royal College of Surgeons ; and 

 perhaps we may reckon Professor Karl Pearson, who occasionally strays our way 

 from the severer realms of mathematics. 



We have alluded in our Notes and Comments to some exhibits at the Royal 

 Society's Conversazione on May 6. Others of special interest to our readers may 

 here be mentioned. Dr. H. Woodward showed some collections made by Dr. 

 Forsyth Major in Madagascar, among which the remains of ^^pyornis, also two adult 

 human skulls said to have been found together in a cave, though far removed from 

 one another in their degree of evolution, attracted most attention. Dr. J. W. 

 Gregory illustrated the geology of part of British East Africa with a map, sections, 

 specimens, and some sketches made from his notes by Mr. Hallam Murray. Mr. 

 Henry Balfour's interesting exhibit illustrating the structure and development of the 

 composite archer's bow, better known as " Cupid's Bow," gained considerable 

 distinction from a unique specimen of an Assyrian bow recently found in a tomb of 

 the 26th Dynasty, at Thebes, Egypt. The Marine Biological Association was chiefly 

 represented by various boring marine animals, while close at hand Mr. Walter 

 Garstang amused the passers-by with his cunning little crabs, Atelecyclus and Corystea, 

 which burrow beneath the sand and draw in a current of water through a sieve-tube 

 formed by the interlocking of rows of hairs on the apposed antennae. Professor 



