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HA R D 1VICKE S S CIENCE- G OS SIP. 



OUR SCIENTIFIC DIRECTORY. 



[It is our desire to bring out a Scientific Directory in the 

 monthly pages of Science-Gossip, feeling certain that it would 

 be very useful for our readers to know what scientific societies 

 had been formed in their own neighbourhoods. We shall there- 

 fore feel very much obliged if Secretaries of any kind of 

 Scientific Society, in any town or part of the country, will send 

 us the full name and title of each Society, together with the 

 names of the President and Hon. Secretary.] 



~T)EDFORD PARK Natural History and Gar- 

 J J dating Society : President, Rev. J. W. Horsley, 

 M.A.; Vice-President, Mr. R. B. Sharpe, F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S. ; Secretary, Mr, R. J. G. Read. 



Bristol Microscopical Society (founded 1843) • 

 President, C. T. Hudson, LL.D., F.R.M.S., etc. ; 

 Hon. Secretary, E. B. L. Brayley, Clifton. 



Chichester and JFest Sussex Natural History and 

 Microscopical Society : President, Rev. F. H. Arnold, 

 LL.B., etc. ; Hon. Secretaries, Joseph Anderson, jun., 

 Aire Villa, Chichester, Alfred Lloyd, F.E.S., F.C.S. 



Colchester Students' 1 Association (founded 1881) : 

 President, James Round, Esq., M.P. ; Hon. Secre- 

 tary, Mr. T. Forster. 



Croydon Microscopical and Natural History Club 

 (established 1S70) : President, H. T. Merrell, F.L.S. ; 

 Hon. Secretary, W. L. Sarjeant. 



Dover Field Club and Natural History Society: 

 President, S. Webb ; Hon. Secretary, Rev. D. 

 Robinson. 



Louth Naturalists' Society: Patron, Rev. W. W. 

 Fowler, M.A., F.L.S. , Lincoln ; President, Edwin 

 Hall ; Vice-President. A. R. Yeoman, M.A. ; Hon. 

 Secretary and Treasurer, H. Wallis, Kew. 



Manchester Microscopical Society : President, Dr. 

 Tatham ; Hon. Secretary, George YVilks, 27, Wyn- 

 ford Street, Weaste. 



Norwich Science-Gossip Club (instituted 1870) : 

 President, Mr. A. W. Preston, F.R.Met. Soc. ; 

 Secretary, Mr. F. H. Ellingham. 



Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society 

 (founded 1839): President, Win. Bolitho ; Hon. 

 Secretaries, G. B. Millet and E. D. Marquand. 



Sheffield Microscopical Society : President, W. 

 Jenkinson, Esq. ; Secretary, Alfred Diaper, 275, 

 Abbeydale Road. 



Society of Amateur Geologists, No. 31, King 

 William Street, London, E.C. : President, Professor 

 G. S. Boulger, F.L.S.; Hon. Secretary, Mr. G. F. 

 Harris, F.G.S. 



Sydenham and Forest Hill Microscopical and 

 Natural History Club: President, Mr. E. L. C. 

 1'. Hardy; Hon. Secretary, Mr. A. C. Perrins, 

 12, Sunderland Villas, Forest Hill, S.E. 



SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



In the United States, picture-frames are now made 

 of paper. Paper-pulp, glue, linseed oil, and carbonate 

 of lime, or whiting, are mixed together, and heated 

 into a thick cream, which, on being allowed to cool, 

 is run into moulds and hardened. The frames are 

 then gilded or bronzed in the usual way. 



Dr. Thomas Andrews, F.R.S., the distinguished 

 chemist, has died at Belfast, aged seventy-two. 

 Another well-known chemist, Mr. Alfred Tribe, has- 

 died at the comparatively early age of forty-six. 



Science will be a gainer by the return of Sir 

 Henry Roscoe, Professor of Chemistry, Queen'- 

 University, as one of the Members of Parliament for 

 Manchester. 



Dr. Henry Woodward, F.R.S., editor of "The 

 Geological Magazine," has been presented with a 

 silver tea and coffee-service, and a cheque for ^253, 

 as a testimonial by the readers and contributors of 

 the above magazine, in celebration of his having 

 edited it for twenty-one years. Professor Bonney 

 made the presentation in the rooms of the Geological 

 Society, Burlington House. 



The electric light, supplied by a portable battery, 

 has been applied for lantern illumination. This will 

 be good news to lecturers, who have been tortured by 

 the oxy-hydrogen light. 



Seasonal dimorphism is stated by Dr. F. Dahl to 

 occur in spiders. This author has already pointed 

 out that Micrommeta virescens and M. ornatd were 

 simply two broods of the same species. He now 

 states that Met a segmentafa and M. menger are 

 respectively spring and summer broods of the same 



species of spider. 



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We are pleased to find that Mr. D. Morris, M.A., 

 F.G.S. , Director of the Public Gardens, Jamaica, 

 has been appointed Assistant-Director of the Royal 

 Gardens, Kew. 



Dr. J. W. Williams has been deputed by the 

 Council of the Practical Naturalists' Society to make 

 a survey of the migration of British birds, and to 

 draw up a list of species migrating, including such as 

 have recently become rare or extinct. He will be 

 glad if any of our readers will help him in the matter 

 by sending him records of arrivals, departures, &c, 

 and also the meteorological conditions prevailing. 

 His address is 27, Corinne Road, Tufnell Park, 

 London, N. 



It has been discovered that New Caledonia 

 contains coal, for Carboniferous strata have lately 

 been found near Noumea, and also on the western 

 side of the island. 



