158 NATURAL SCIENCE. Feb.. 1893, 



A Naturalists' Field Club has been founded at Limerick, and has joined the 

 other Irish Societies in adopting the Irish Naturalist as its organ. 



The Cambridge Entomological Society has extended its scope so as to include 

 other branches of Natural History, and will henceforth be known as the Cambridge 

 Entomological and Natural History Society. The Society is not confined to 

 members of the University, and at the present time is in a more flourishing condition 

 than it has been for some years past. The secretary is Mr. W. Farren. 



The medals and funds at the disposal of the Council of the Geological Society 

 of London will be awarded as follows, at the Annual Meeting on February 17 : — 

 Wollaston Medal, Professor N. Story Maskelyne, and Fund to Mr. J. G. Goodchild ; 

 Lyell Medal to Mr. E. T. Newton, and Fund divided between Miss C. A. Raisin and 

 Mr. Alfred N. Leeds ; Murchison Medal to the Rev. O. Fisher, and Fund to Mr. G. J 

 Williams ; Bigsby Medal to Professor W. J. Sollas. 



At the meeting of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain on January 17 

 a biographical notice of the late foreign secretary, Mr. Thomas Davies, was read, 

 with the announcement that a memorial fund would be collected for the benefit of 

 the widow and family of the deceased. Professor Story Maskelyne is president of 

 the committee, Dr. Hugo Miiller is treasurer, and Mr. H. A. Miers has undertaken 

 the duties of secretary. Donations may be forwarded to Dr. Hugo Midler, F.R.S., 

 13 Park Square East, Regent's Park, London, N.W. 



A NUMBER of Conchologists residing in and around London have decided, if 

 possible, to found a society devoted exclusively to the study of Mollusca, with its 

 headquarters in the Metropolis. It is suggested that monthly meetings should be 

 held from November to June, for the exhibition of specimens and the reading and 

 discussion of papers, which it is intended should in due course be published and 

 distributed to members. It is not proposed to form a library or a collection— at all 

 events for the present. It is estimated that a subscription of los. 6d. per annum 

 would be sufficient to effect these objects (no entrance fee being charged to those 

 who join in the course of the first year). A circular has been issued by Mr. E. R. 

 Sykes (of 13 Doughty Street, London, W.C.), who will be glad to hear from all who 

 are willing to further the object in view. In the preliminary list of supporters we 

 observe the names of Colonel Beddome, Lieut. -Colonel Godwin-Austen, Messrs. 

 Cosmo Melvill, E A. Smith, and B. B. Woodward, the Rev. R. Boog Watson, and 

 Dr. H, Woodward. 



