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HA RD IF/CA'E'S SCIENCE- G OSSIP. 



SCIENCE DIRECTORY. 



/I LB ANY Naturalists' Club, Edinburgh. Hon. 

 ^J- President, Rev. J. Pulsford, D.D. ; Presidents, 

 Rev. A. B. Morris and W. E. Hoyle, M.A., F.R.S.E., 

 M.R.C.S. ; Secretary, P. Caradoc Williams, F.I.C. 



Clydesdale Naturalists' Society. President, T. J. 

 Henderson, 24 Florence Place, Hillhead ; Vice- 

 Presidents, E. C. Eggleton, R. Christie, John M. 

 Campbell ; Hon. Secretary, John Mackay, 78 

 Gloucester Street, Kingston, Glasgow. 



Great Eastern Railway Mechanics'' Institution, Na- 

 tural History and Microscopical Section. President, 

 Mr. Thomas Rea ; Hon. Secretaries, Mr. Claud S. 

 Scott and Mr. D. O. Ewing. The meetings are 

 held at G. E. R. Mechanics' Institution at Stratford, 

 Essex. The "Section" has been in existence one 

 year, and numbers about fifty members ; started to 

 encourage the study of natural history and micro- 

 scopy amongst the men employed on the Great 

 Eastern Railway. 



Guernsey Society of Natural Science. President, 

 T. Guille, Esq., Montauban ; Hon. Secretary, Wm, 

 Sharp, Granville House, Mt. Durand. 



Hackney Microscopical and Natural History Society 

 (The Morley Hall, Hackney). President, Dr. M. C. 

 Cooke, M.A., LL.D., F.L.S., 146 Junction Road, 

 Upper Ilolloway. Hon. Curators, F. Coles, F.L.S., 

 C.F. Holland, F.R.M.S. ; Hon. Librarian, R. Paul- 

 son; Hon. Secretary, Collis Willmott, F.R.M.S., 

 Triangle, Hackney. 



Hampshire Field Club. (Established 18S5, for the 

 study of the Natural History and Antiquities of the 

 County.) President, Professor F. S. P. F. de Chau- 

 mont, M.D., F.R.S.; Hon. Treasurer, W. E. Darwin, 

 J. P., B.A., F.G.S. ; Hon. Secretaries, Morris Miles, 

 44 Carlton Road, Southampton, T. W. Shore, F.G.S. , 

 F.C.S., Hartley Institution, Southampton ; Hon. 

 Local Secretaries : Alton — Rev. J. Vaughan, M.A. ; 

 Andover — Rev. H. R. Clutterbuck, A.K.C.L. ; 

 Bournemouth— R. G. Pinder, M.R.I. B.A. ; Fording- 

 bridge— E. Westlake, F.G.S.; Winchester, C. R. 

 Pink, M.R.I. B.A. 



Lincoln Science Club. President, the Rev. W. W. 

 Fowler, M.A., F.L.S., etc. The School-house. 

 Vice-President, Mr. W. J. Gant, M.R.C.S., etc. ; 

 Hon. Secretary, the Rev. W. W. Fowler. Members 

 meet at each other's residences once a month. 



Liverpool Science Students' Association. President, 

 Mr. William Narramore ; Vice-Presidents, Mr. Henry 

 Ashton Hill, Mr. Osmund W.Jeffs; Hon. Secretary, 

 Mr. W. H. Read, 24 Fern Grove, Lodge Lane, 

 Liverpool ; Hon. Treasurer, Mr. John Edwards ; 

 Hon. Librarian, Mr. E. O. Windle ; Botanical 

 Referee, Mr. H. Leaton Edwards. 



Royal Historical Society. President, the Lord 

 Aberdare, G.C.B., F.R.S. ; Librarian, W. E. Poole, 

 II Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, W. ; Secretary, 

 P. Edward Dove, F.R.A.S., 23 Old Buildings, 

 Lincoln's Inn, W.C. Cambridge Branch — Professor 

 J. R. Seeley, M.A. (Caius), Chairman; J. R. Tanner, 

 B.A. (St. John's), Hon. Secretary. 



School of Pharmacy Students' Association. Presi- 

 dent, Professor Attfield, F.R.S. ; Hon. Secretary 

 and Treasurer, Mr. F. W. Short, 17, Bloomsbury 

 Square, London, W.C. 



Society of Amateur Geologists, 31 King William 

 Street, London, E.C. President, A. C. Maybury, 

 D.Sc, F.G.S.; Secretary, G. F. Harris, F.G.S., 49 

 Gloucester Street, Belgrave Road, S.W. 



SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



Mr. E. F. im Thurx recently read a paper at the 

 Linnean Society on the plants found by him during, 

 his ascent of the singular mountain, Roraima, 

 British Guiana. Among them are three new genera 

 and fifty-four new species. The mountain appears to- 

 have been a centre of distribution. 



The meeting of the British Association for 1S87 

 will be held in Manchester, and it is expected that 

 Professor Sir Henry Roscoe will be President. 



A LONG and animated discussion took place at the 

 recent meeting of the Entomological Society, on the 

 proposal to transpose many of the most familiar 

 generic names. The project was almost unanimously 

 condemned. 



Apropos of "Primrose Day," a correspondent 

 expresses his opinion that Conservatives would act 

 better up to their political creed by planting primroses. 

 on that day, rather than gathering them by tons, and 

 thus helping to destroy the prettiest and most charac- 

 teristic of our English wild-flowers ! 



We are pleased to notice that Liverpool is about 

 to do honour to one of its most distinguished and 

 us-eful citizens — a man who has spent his life in the 

 cause of scientific education. A subscription has 

 been opened to present the Rev. H. H. Higgins with, 

 a testimonial in recognition of his scientific services. 



Dr. Richardson's "Asclepiad" for the current 

 quarter is well worth buying, if only for the sake of 

 the article on "The Poverty of Wealth.'' 



Mr. Josiah Rose has written a charming little 

 brochure entitled " Notes on Fairs." It is printed in 

 blue ink on green English paper, as an optical 

 experiment, and there can be no doubt as to the 

 greater comfort of reading print under these circum- 

 stances. 



