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presented to M. Pasteur on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of his birth- 

 day. Subscriptions were received, and a gold medal accompanied the address that 

 was presented to the veteran pathologist on December 27. 



The 150th anniversary of the foundation of the American Philosophical 

 Society will be celebrated at Philadelphia from May 22 to May 26, 1893. 



When is the Catalogue of the Linnean Society's Library destined to appear? 

 It has been promised to the Fellows for several years, and so far there has been no 

 fulfilment. The Linnean Society's Library is so useful to a large body of workers, 

 and the courtesy and helpfulness of the officers and staff are so abundant, that there 

 has been hitherto no public grumbling on the subject. It is to be hoped that an 

 energetic effort will soon be made to bring out the Catalogue, since its absence 

 considerably impairs the efficiency of this branch of the Society's work. 



The Yorkshire Naturalists' Union has issued as the seventeenth part of its 

 Transactions another instalment of Mr. J. G. Baker's " North Yorkshire." This is 

 the fifth part of the work, and contains a list of the Flora from Pyvola to Scshria. 

 The next part will complete the flowering plants, and commence the mosses and 

 hepatics. 



The North Staffordshire Naturalists' Field Club has issued vol. xxvi. of its 

 Transactions (1892). The Garner Memorial Medal has now been established, and 

 will be awarded in alternate years for original researches in the Society's district. 

 The Council regrets that funds do not allow of an annual aw.ard. The medal will 

 be of silver, or, at the option of the recipient, it may be substituted by a bronze 

 medal and a gift of books. 



The last part of the Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society 

 (vol. xii., pt. ii., 1892) contains an important illustrated account of the exploration of 

 a tumulus at Howe Hill, Duggleby, by J. R. Mortimer. Other papers relating to 

 the county are a description of the geology of Grassington and Wensleydale by 

 J. R. Dakyns, notes on Flamborough Drifts by G. W. Lamplugh, and a summary of 

 the Lias and Oolite formations by James W. Davis, the editor. Mr, G. R. Vine 

 has a detailed memoir on some Cretaceous Polyzoa, and Dr. Tempest Anderson 

 contributes some personal observations on the volcanoes of Iceland 



The Palaeontographical Society is to be congratulated on having issued its 

 volume of monographs for 1892 within the year to which the subscription relates. 

 The volume contains the final part of Professor Nicholson's monograph on 

 Stromatoporoids, and further instalments of the monographs of Jones and 

 Woodward (Palaeozoic Phyllopoda), Hudleston (Jurassic Gasteropoda), Buckman 

 (Lower Oolite Ammonites), and Whidborne (Devonian Fauna of S. England). 

 The plates and illustrations are of the usual high standard, but there is a marked 

 preponderance of illustrations of ammonites ; the Society's stock of plates of these 

 fossils long in hand must by this time be almost exhausted. We have on a former 

 occasion referred to the misleading list of " announcements," and regret to find 

 that it still remains unrevised. In the case of several of these monographs 

 announced as " in preparation," we believe the statement is false, and that members 

 of Council are aware of the fact ; indeed, the Treasurer of the Society (Mr. R. 

 Etheridge, F.R.S.) authorises us to state that he is not preparing the two memoirs 

 placed under his name, and has no intention of doing so. The length of the list 

 of subscribers is gratifying, but the false promises made by the Council are not 

 calculated to retain this support, as scon as the true state of affairs is discovered. 



