238 NATURAL SCIENCE. Marcu, 1893. 
Tue Croonian Lecture for 1893 will be delivered before the Royal Society of 
London on March 16, by Professor Rudolph Virchow, of Berlin. The subject is 
‘The Position of Pathology among the Biological Sciences.”’ 
NATURAL Science is represented in the programme of the Royal Dublin 
Society’s afternooon lectures by Professor W. J. Sollas and Dr. V. Ball, the former 
of whom is to speak on ‘‘The New Geology,” and the latter on ‘‘The Scilly 
Islands.” 
THE study of ethnology and anthropology is being taken up in Ireland with 
some enthusiasm. An anthropometric laboratory has been, for several months, 
established in Trinity College, Dublin; it is under the supervision of Professor 
D. J. Cunningham and Mr. C. R. Browne. The latter observer joined Professor 
A. C. Haddon last autumn on an ethnological expedition to the Aran Islands, in 
Galway Bay, when numerous measurements of the islanders were obtained. Pro- 
fessor Haddon and Mr. Browne have lately contributed their results to the Royal 
Irish Academy. A course of popular evening lectures on Anthropology is in 
progress at the Royal College of Science, Dublin, by Professor Haddon, who has 
also been lecturing on the subject at Belfast. 
TueE Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-on- 
Tyne has organised a series of popular Saturday evening lectures, delivered in its 
Museum. Dr. Embleton, Canon Tristram, Professor G. S. Brady, and Professor 
M. C. Potter are among the lecturers, and the public are taking full advantage of 
the facilities afforded them. 
Tue hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the Literary and Philosophical 
Society of Newcastle-on-Tyne was celebrated by a Conversazione on February 7. 
The President (Lord Armstrong) performed and explained some electrical experi- 
ments illustrating his recent researches; and the senior Secretary (Dr. R. Spence 
Watson) read a brief historical sketch of the Society. Next to the Literary and 
Philosophical Society of Manchester, which was founded in 1781, that of Newcastle- 
on-Tyne is the oldest in Britain. At the time of its foundation, there were, even in 
London, few learned bodies. The Royal Society was a hundred years old, and the 
Society of Antiquaries and the Society of Arts were at work, but the Linnean 
Society, founded in 1788, was the only association in England devoted to the investi- 
gation of any single branch of natural science. During the century of its existence 
the Newcastle Society had formed a great library, containing many almost unique 
works, and it is sad to have to relate that, on the morning after the Conversazione, 
nearly the whole of this library, except the Reference Department, was destroyed 
by fire. 
Av the anniversary meeting of the Geological Society of London, held on 
Friday, February 17, Mr. Hudleston was re-elected president, and Mr. J. J. H. 
Teall elected secretary, in the room of Dr. Hicks retiring. Owing to the feeble 
health of the President, the ordinary official annual dinner was not held this year. 
In view of our remarks in January on “‘ Scientific Dinners,”” we are glad to observe 
that Dr. Henry Woodward, a vice-president of the Society, initiated a less costly 
entertainment, which, we understand, was quite informal, and was attended by no 
less than go Fellows and their friends. Dr. Woodward occupied the chair, and 
was supported by Sir A. Geikie, Sir H. H. Howorth, Professor Maskelyne, Dr. 
Hinde, Professor Rupert Jones, Professor Lapworth, and the secretaries of the 
Geological Society. 
