394 NATURAL “SCIENCE. May, 
WE are glad to observe that a suitable inscription has been recently placed on 
the pedestal of the bust of Sir Richard Owen, which has a place of honour in the 
Pavilion of the Palzontological Gallery at the Natural History Museum. This bust 
is a plaster cast of the Hamo Thornycroft marble (1880), preserved at Sheen Lodge, 
and was presented to the Museum by the family about four years ago. The inscrip- 
tion reads as follows :— 
SIR RICHARD OWEN, 
GING MID WC, IED, IN, C40, CAO, 
Superintendent of the 
Natural History Departments 
of the British Museum, 
from 1856—1883. 
Born, Died, 
2oth July, 1804. 18th Dec., 1892. 
‘“‘ Accesserunt ossa ad ossa, unumquodque ad juncturam suam.’’— 
WOZECK XKKVAT Ce 
We are informed by Dr. Henry Woodward that the appropriate quotation from the 
Vulgate was selected by the Rev. Professor Bonney. 
THE fourth annual meeting of the Museums’ Association, which is to be held 
in London under the Presidency of Sir W. H. Flower, K.C.B., will commence on 
Monday, July 3, and probably extend over four or five days. The mornings will be 
devoted to the reading and discussion of papers, but the afternoons will be given up 
to the inspection of various metropolitan museums, under competent leadership. 
A GEoLoGicaL Society has recently been organised in Washington for the 
presentation and discussion of topics of interest to geologists. The constitution 
and standing rules were subscribed to by tog founders at the first public meeting, 
March 8, 1893. Its members are of two classes, active and corresponding. The 
annual subscriptions of the first are 2 dols., and of the second 1 dol. Meetings 
will be held on the second, and generally also on the fourth Wednesday of each 
month, from October to May inclusive. The journals and bulletins of the various 
societies appear to furnish sufficient opportunity for the publication of papers read 
before the Society, so that for the present the Society will not undertake to publish 
the papers presented. It will probably issue one bulletin each year containing the 
address of the retiring President, and such other matter as the Council directs. 
The officers, elected February 25, 1893, are C. D. Walcott (President), S. F. 
Emmons and W. H. Holmes (Vice-Presidents), A. Hague (Treasurer), Whitman 
Cross and J. S. Diller (Secretaries); the Council being G. F. Becker, T. M. 
Chatard, G. H. Eldridge, G. K. Gilbert, G. P. Merrill. We should like to have 
seen the organisation of local excursions among their objects, for field observation 
is an essential to the increase and diffusion of geological knowledge. 
THE collection of Lepidoptera (chiefly Micro-Lepidoptera) formed by the late 
H. T. Stainton has been presented by his widow to the Natural History Museum. 
The presentation is the more valuable as it includes the original drawings and 
papers illustrative of the specimens. 
THE Zoological Society of London has just issued its Annual Report of 
Accounts for 1892. We are glad to note a slight improvement in gate-money (£272) 
over 1891, which points to an increased appreciation in the efforts made by the 
Society to render the Gardens interesting to the public. It is curious to see a 
falling-off in the elephant rides of £3 19s. 4d., but still the comfortable amount of 
