158 NATURAL SCIENCE. Feb.. 1S94. 



The following awards have been made by the Council of the Geological Society 

 of London, to be presented at the annual meeting on February 16: — The Wollaston 

 Medal to Professor Dr. K. A. von Zittel ; the Murchison Medal to Mr. W. T.Aveline ; 

 theLyell Medal to Professor John Milne ; the Wollaston, Murchison, and Lyell Funds 

 respectively to Messrs. A. Strahan, G. Barrov;', and W. Hill ; and a portion of the 

 Barlow-Jameson Fund to Mr. Charles Davison. 



The Committee of the Natural History Society of Northumberland has organised 

 a series of six popular lectures on Natural History, now being delivered on alternate 

 Saturday evenings in the Newcastle Museum. This month Dr. G. S. Brady discourses 

 on Natural History in Norway, and Professor M. C. Potter gives an illustrated lecture 

 on Tropical Vegetation in Ceylon. Subsequent lectures relate to forest trees, the 

 ancestry of the horse, and the history of photography. Mr. A. H. Dickinson has 

 succeeded the late Mr. Dinning as hon. secretary. 



The Palaeontographical Society have issued their volume of Monographs for 

 1893. It comprises instalments of Fossil Sponges, by Dr. G. J. Hinde; Ammonites, 

 by Mr. S. S. Buckman ; Cretaceous Star-fishes, by Mr. W. Percy Sladen ; and the 

 Devonian Fauna of S.E. England, by Rev. G. F. Whidborne. 



At the moment of going to press we learn of the election of Mr. Henry O. 

 Forbes to the Curatorship of the Liverpool Museum, in succession to the late Mr. 

 T. J. Moore. 



