158 NATURAL SCIENCE. FEB., 1893. 
A Naturatists’ Field Club has been founded at Limerick, and has joined the 
other Irish Societies in adopting the Ivish Naturalist as its organ. 
TuHE 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 ina 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 Miller is treasurer, and Mr. H. A. Miers has undertaken 
the duties of secretary. Donations may be forwarded to Dr. Hugo Miller, 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 ros. 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. 
