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the cause of Natural Science for which he has done so much. Mr. Moore was 

 awarded a well-earned annuity, and it is hoped that, by an arrangement with the 

 Derby trustees, he will still be able to undertake the duties of Consulting Curator, 

 and thus prevent the necessity of appointing a successor for the present. We are 

 glad to add that, notwithstanding his advanced age, the Rev. H. H. Higgins is still 

 able to take an active part in the affairs of the Museum, and has lately obtained 

 several important acquisitions. 



We also regret to announce the retirement of Major John Plant, F.G.S., who 

 has occupied the position of Curator and Chief Librarian of the Peel Park Museum, 

 Salford, since its foundation in 1849. Under Major Plant's direction this institution 

 has gradually developed into one of the principal attractions of the busy centre to 

 which it belongs. The library now contains some 60,000 volumes, in place of the 

 5,000 with which it started, and is provided with a handsome reading room. The 

 rooms in which the scientific exhibits are displayed are numerous and well 

 adapted to their purpose ; while the art galleries include the great Langworthy 

 Gallery, occupied with marble statues and fine oil paintings of the modern 

 English and French schools. Apart from his official work, Major Plant has taken 

 an active part in the proceedings of the Manchester Geological Society and other 

 local institutions ; and, by his retirement to Anglesey, a leading figure will be 

 removed from Manchester scientific circles. He is succeeded at Peel Park by Mr. 

 B. H. Mullen, M.A., late of the Science and Art Museum, Dublin. 



We have received a brief report of the work of the Essex and Chelmsford 

 Museum for 1891. A successful effort is being made to establish this institution as a 

 centre of intellectual activity, not only for Chelmsford, but also for the whole of the 

 county. Its work is chiefly in the direction of advanced teaching, but the practical 

 lessons learned in the Field Lectures on Geology and Botany, by Mr. W. H. Dalton 

 and Dr. J. E. Taylor, are sure to tend to the progress of Natural History research 

 in the county. 



Mr. Arthur Smith Woodward has been appointed Assistant-Keeper of the Geo- 

 logical Department of the British Museum, in succession to Mr. R. Etheridge, F.R.S. 



Mr. J. ScoTT Keltie has succeeded the late Mr. H. W. Bates as Assistant 

 Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society. 



The volume of the Palaeontographical Society's Monographs for 1S91 has just 

 been issued. It comprises continuations of the Monographs on Jurassic Gasteropoda, 

 by Mr. W. H. Hudleston, F.R.S. ; on Inferior Oolite Ammonites, by Mr. S. S. 

 Buckman ; and on the Devonian Fauna of the South of England, by Rev. G. F. 

 Whidborne. The imposing list of memoirs "in preparation" and "in course of 

 publication," appears as usual ; but we have good reason to believe that the large 

 majority of these are no further advanced than they were many years ago when the 

 titles were first announced. As, however, at least half the names on the list of 

 the Society's Council are quite unknown in the sphere of Palseontological Research, 

 we must not expect too much. 



In the last number of the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinbiiroh {\o\. xviii., 

 pp. 299-302), the Prince of Monaco gives an interesting brief account of his new 

 yacht, the " Princesse Alice, ' in which he hopes to continue his researches in 

 Oceanography and Marine Biology. 



The local use of various Building-stones formed the subject of the Presidential 

 Address to the Rochester Naturalists' Club, by the Rev. G. M. Livett (Rochester 

 Naturalist, vol. ii., 1891, pp. 33-4C). Noting first the use of Greywethers in the con- 

 struction of cromlechs, such as Kit's Coty House, he proceeds to call attention to 



