7i6 NATURAL SCIENCE. ^°l-' 



On October 5 a number of members of the British Ornithologists' Union 

 dined together and formed a P.ritish Ornithologists' Club, which will meet monthly 

 in l.ondon from June to October in each year, and issue a monthly Bulletin. The 

 object of the Club is to promote social intercourse between members of the Union, 

 and a small annual subscription will be levied to cover publication and other 

 expenses. The first committee consists of the Earl of Ciainsborough, Dr. Sclater 

 (P'ditor of The Ibis), Dr. Bowdler Sharpe (Secretary and Editor of the Bulletin), 

 and Messrs. Bidwell, Seebohm, and Howard Saunders (Treasurer). At the opening 

 meeting, Mr. Edward Degen read a paper on " Some of the Main Features in the 

 Evolution of the Bird's Wing," which will appear in exteiiso in an early number of 

 The Ibis. 



Colonel Bailey, R.E., Lecturer on Forestry in the University of Edinburgh, 

 has been appointed Secretary of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, in 

 succession to Mr. Arthur Silva White. At the anniversary dinner of the Society, 

 held in Edinburgh on October ig, under the Presidency of the Marquis of Lome, 

 Mr. White was presented with a sum of ;f4oo and an honorary diploma of fellow- 

 ship. 



The Societe Scientifique de Chile has issued the first part of the second 

 volume of its Actes. It comprises one elaborate memoir of 174 pages by Professor 

 F. P. Borne on a Chilian spider, Latrodectus formidabilis, and a record of the Pro- 

 ceedings of Meetings. The first Annual Meeting was held on April 4th, when the 

 Societ}' was reported to be in a flourishing condition both as regards membership 

 and finances. The Actes are published in bi-monthly parts and freely distributed 

 al)road . 



The last (June) part of Timehri, the Journal of the Royal Agricultural and 

 Commercial Society of British Guiana, contains among other matter valuable 

 papers by Mr. J. J. Quelch, on the Bats and Birds of Prey of British Guiana, and 

 numerous short notes on the Natural History of the Colony. There is also a brief 

 article by Mr. T. S. Hargreaves on Guiana Gold. 



The Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club is somewhat dilatory in its publications, 

 the volume of Transactions for the years 1886-89 having only been issued last month. 

 In addition to the ordinary reports of meetings and e.xcursions, the new volume 

 contains many brief but valuable contributions to the Natural History of the Club's 

 district, and there are several plates, illustrating papers on Archrrology. 



Part VII. (1891-92) of the Transactions of the Leeds Geological Association has 

 just appeared. The frontispiece is a photograph of the base of the trunk of a fine 

 Carboniferous tree, found in the Gannister at Meanwocd; and the principal con- 

 tributions to local geology are those of Mr. B. Holgate on Glacial Deposits in Teesdale, 

 and Mr. J. E. Bedford on Glacial Action in the Leeds District. Many general 

 questions of great interest are also briefly treated, and there aie the usual reports of 

 excursions. 



