78 NATURAL SCIENCE. Jan., 



The Duke of Westminster has subscribed the sum of £i,ooo to the extension 

 fund of the Grosvenor Museum, Chester. The new portion of the building is 

 already well advanced. 



The Manchester Museum has issued a second edition of its illustrated General 

 Guide. Among the most recent acquisitions is a collection of the Coal-measure fossils 

 from Lancashire, presented by Mr. Robert Cairns. A similar collection was presented 

 some months ago by Sir U. Kay Shuttleworth. 



The Societe Industrielle de Mulhouse has just issued a guide to the Mulhouse 

 Museum. Among many other important collections therein contained, we may 

 note the geological specimens of Koechlin-Schlumberger ; the plants and marine 

 fossils of the Culm of Thann, collected by Albert Scheurer ; the Debay collection 

 of fossil plants from the Senonian of Ai.K-la-Chapelle ; the quaternary mammals 

 from the Mulhouse district ; and the Mi'ihlenbach, Rabenhorst, Schlumberger, and 

 Han herbaria. 



We regret to learn from the recently-issued Annual Report of the Brighton 

 Museum, of the retirement of Mr. Edward Crane from the chairmanship of the 

 Committee. Mr. Crane has served on the Committee for twenty-one years, and was 

 elected chairman eight years ago on the death of Dr. Thomas Davidson. During 

 this long period he has not only rendered inestimable service to the Museum, but 

 has also been one of the foremost promoters of the interests of Science in the town ; 

 and his resignation is only due to the feebleness caused by advancing years. There 

 is appended to the Report a scheme for the continuation of the Booth Collection of 

 British Birds. 220 species are already represented, and a special effort is to be 

 made to gradually complete the series. 



The address of the President, Mr. J. F. Whiteaves, to the Royal Society of 

 Canada, section iv., has just been issued separately. It is an account of our present 

 knowledge of the Cretaceous Rocks of Canada. 



The Palaeontographical Society announce the preparation of a monograph on 

 the " Anthracosias and Anthracomyas of the Coal-measures," by Dr. Wheelton 

 Hind. .\s Dr. Hind has already dealt with many of these forms in vol. xlix. of the 

 Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, we have good hopes that this monograph 

 may actually, as the Council promise, " appear at an early date." 



The North Staffordshire Naturalists' Field Club has issued a concise and 

 valuable report on the progress of geological and palasontological research in the 

 district, with a bibliography from 1679 to the present day. It has been prepared by 

 Mr. John Ward, of Longton. 



The Liverpool Geological Association have issued no. 5 of vol. xiii. of their 

 Jotirnal. It contains a paper by Mr. J. Herbert Jones on the influence of local 

 geology on the commercial importance of Liverpool, and a short discussion of the 

 metamorphic origin of granite by Mr. R. W. Boothman Roberts. 



The formation of Field Naturalists' Clubs in France seems to be on the 

 increase. We learn from La Feuille des Jeuncs Naturalistes (December i, 1893) that a 

 new Natural History Society has recently been founded at Macon, while similar 

 societies are in process of formation at Bourg and in Haute-Saone. There is also 



