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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 areso 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. 
Tue 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 Pyrola to Sesleria. 
The next part will complete the flowering plants, and commence the mosses and 
hepatics. 
Tue 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 award. 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 Palzontographical 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 (Palzozoic 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 ona 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, 
