1897] NEWS 141 



the collections of Hugh Strickland, \V. S. Symonds, and Wynnington Ingram. 

 Among other collections in the Museum are one of local birds, and a good one of 

 foreign marine shells the gift of the late Sir Geo. Whitmore. The heavy task of 

 transferring and re-arranging all the material falls on the shoulders of the curator, 

 Mr W. H. Edwards. 



The Zoological Museum of the Royal Academy of Science, St Petersburg, has 

 acquired thirty-three specimens of fossil bones and numerous remains of Post- 

 Tertiary mammals collected by J. Savenkov at Krasnoyarsk. Among them are 

 some bones and a piece of skin of Rhinoceros tichorhinus, which were taken from a 

 well-preserved specimen of a rhinoceros, covered with skin, found 60 versts east 

 of Kasatschje, on the bank of the Charaula, a left tributary of the Tomskaja. 



In the Annuaire Ge'ologique et Mineralogique de la Russie, vol. ii. livr. 3-4, 

 from which this news is taken, Marie Pavlov describes, with photographs, the 

 occurrence of a mammoth (Elephas primigenius trogontherii) near the town of 

 Yaroslavl, found during the making of a railroad, at a depth of 6 metres. The 

 remains have been sent to the Geological Museum of Moscow University. 



That there is still something new to be found in England is constantly 

 being shown by the active members of the Hull Scientific and Field Natur- 

 alists' Club. The last item is the Moonwort (Botrychmm lunaria), which Mr 

 Waterfall has seen growing wild at York. Mr Fierke, in a lecture on crabs, 

 gave a list of those found on the Yorkshire coast, and urged members to devote 

 a little more of their attention to the rocks and pools of the sea-shore, where, 

 we agree with him, they will find a rich field for useful work. The programme 

 of excursions and meetings for July-September should induce a large number to 

 join this vigorous body, which also holds out the inducement of a new and 

 better room over a cycle shop. 



Among those who received Jubilee honours were : Dr Edward Frankland, 

 Dr Huggins, Mr J. Norman Lockyer, Dr Thome Thome, Mr Wolfe Barry, 

 President of the Institute of Civil Engineers, and Admiral Wharton, Hydro- 

 grapher to the Admiralty, to be K.C.B.; Mr W. H. M. Christie, Astronomer 

 Royal, to be C.B.; Sir William MacCormac, President of the Royal College of 

 Surgeons, Dr S. Wilkes, President of the Royal College of Physicians, and Mr 

 Thos. Smith, Surgeon-in-ordinary to Her Majesty, to be Baronets ; Sir Joseph 

 Hooker and Lieut. -General Strachey to be G.C.S.I. ; Mr William Crookes, 

 President-designate of the British Association, and Dr Gowers, to be knights ; 

 Sir Herbert E. Maxwell to be Privy Councillor. 



We have received the report of the Raffles Library and Museum, Singapore, 

 for 1896, by Dr R. Hanitsch. A number of new cases have been introduced, and 

 the museum has undergone entire rearrangement. There is now exhibited the 

 beginning of a collection of the local marine fauna. A shifting of specimens has 

 also taken place, allowing more room to the birds and reptiles, and concentrating 

 the ethnological collections. Owing to the absence of a workshop, the exhibition 

 rooms had to be closed while the changes were in progress. Among the acquisi- 

 tions of the museum is a specimen of Madreporaria reticulata {!), 4 ft. 5 in. 

 by 2 ft. 8 in., picked up on October 20, 1896, by the Cable ship Sherard 

 Osborne in the Bali Straits, at fifteen fathoms, where it had grown round a 

 cable laid in 1888, thus giving another proof of the rapid growth of corals. 

 Lieut. Harvey, R.E., lent a boat and crew for dredging excursions on several 

 occasions, and other dredging trips were arranged by Mr G. Holt and the Com- 

 mittee. A zoological station has often been proposed, and is greatly needed ; a 

 simple movable shed, with plain furniture, jars, and preserving iluids, is all that 

 is absolutely required. 



