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decided upon. The Society owes its present flourishing condition to Judge Daly, 

 who has been its president for thirty-three years. 



A collection of horns of mammals made in South Africa by Mr J. Rosen is 

 now being exhibited on loan in the Brighton Museum. Most of the known 

 species are represented, and many of the specimens are remarkably fine. One 

 pair of horns of a koodoo measure 47 inches in length. 



The Louisiana Society of Naturalists was founded on July 22nd. It starts 

 with forty-five members under the presidency of Prof. J. H. Dillard of Tulane 

 University, the secretary being Mr E. Foster. According to Science the Society 

 will establish a museum and library, and will publish proceedings. 



The Museum of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science is progressing 

 favourably, though hampered by want of funds. We trust the town authorities 

 will help in the matter after so much energy has been spent in getting things into 

 shape. The Society's library has received a set of the ' Challenger ' Reports from 

 the Government. 



Next year Mr J. E. Spurr will lead an expedition to Alaska to make a further 

 survey of the gold resources. $5000 has been appropriated by Congress for the 

 purpose, but according to Science an effort will be made to increase the appropria- 

 tion to $25,000 in order that a complete survey may be made and a geological map 

 of the region prepared. 



During the present session Prof. Boyd Dawkins will give a series of twelve 

 short addresses on geological subjects in the Manchester Museum. These are to 

 be delivered alternately on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. We are glad to 

 note that the Museum has just received a donation of £1500 from Mr Edward 

 Holt towards the building fund. 



According to the American Journal of Science, the Geological Survey of Canada 

 has recently acquired a mass of meteoric iron from Thurlow, Hastings Co., 

 Ontario. It is an irregularly-shaped, truncated pyramidal mass, with a more or 

 less rectangular base, measuring O^m. by - 135m., and weighs 5*42 kilos. It is 

 to be named the Thurlow meteorite. 



The International Ornithological Congress will meet this year at Aix on 

 November 9. The International Congress of Zoology will meet at Cambridge on 

 August 23, 1898. Sir William Flower has issued a circular letter asking for 

 co-operation with the general committee in raising a fund to defray the necessary 

 expenses of the meeting. The committee has just met in London to arrange 

 the preliminaries. 



Prof. Michael Foster has been delivering lectures in Baltimore during 

 October, and he now proceeds to deliver a course of Lowell Lectures at Boston. 

 In the middle of the month, Dr Nansen passed through London on his way to 

 America, where he has many engagements. Science announces that at the close 

 of his first lecture at New York a medal will be presented to him by the American 

 Geographical Society. 



At the annual meeting of the Hull Scientific and Field Naturalists' Club, 

 held on September 29, it was reported that great progress had been made during 

 the year. Thirty-eight new members had been elected, and the attendance at 

 meetings had increased by 50 per cent. The Society wisely arranges its pro- 

 gramme so that lectures of general scientific interest alternate with its more 

 technical and original local work. 



The Trustees of the British Museum have been approached by the Council of 



