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£606 was received from this source during the year. There isa considerable im- 
provement in the admission fees, which points to an encouraging influx of new 
Fellows. Turning to the payments, we find that out of an expenditure of £25,968 
no less than £17,618 was expended on the Gardens, an amount which speaks 
eloquently for the excellent standard maintained. Of this amount, £843 was spent 
on animals and their transport, £3,974 on food, £3,468 on salaries and pensions, 
£765 on horticulture and garden-work, £2,628 on works and buildings, and £3,466 
on menagerie expenses. We have commented on the expense of the Zoological 
Record on page 324. f 
Mr. Epwarp Best, who has been on the staff of the Geological Survey for 
38 years, has now retired. His place as acting secretary is taken by Mr. W. Topley, 
and Mr. A. C. G. Cameron has been promoted to the rank of geologist. 
Art the annual meeting of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society, held 
at the Norwich Museum on March 28, Mr. Thomas Southwell was elected president. 
The address of the outgoing president, Mr. H. B. Woodward, was devoted to various 
local topics, principally geological. 
Tue work of remounting the great series of microscopic preparations made by 
the late Professor de Bary, and acquired by the British Museum, is nearly completed. 
The slides illustrating the comparative anatomy of the vascular plants, and those 
dealing with the structure and life-history of the lower forms, have been successfully 
restored, and the Fungi, which have been left to the last, are three-parts done. The 
value to students of Botany of the presence of this great collection in this country 
can only be indicated, since it will always remain as the authentic basis of the great 
botanist’s work. 
ProFessor HEerpMAN sends us the ‘Sixth Annual Report of the Liverpool 
Marine Biology Committee.’ The laboratory at Port Erin appears to be a 
flourishing institution, and a considerable amount of work has already been turned 
out. The Committee have secured the services of Mr. Henry Vanstone, of the 
Royal College of Science, South Kensington, as ‘‘ resident Curator,” and important 
additions have been made during the winter to the laboratory. A great number of 
students appear, from what we have heard, to be availing themselves of the 
opportunities of working there. 
WE regret to learn that Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell has found the climate of Kings- 
ton, Jamaica, too trying for his health, and has been obliged to leave the Museum 
there and return to his old home near the Rocky Mountains. Mr. Cockerell was 
doing some good work in economic entomology, and his departure will be a great 
disappointment to him and a distinct loss to the Kingston Museum. His address 
will be Las Cruces, New Mexico, U.S.A. 
Mr. E. J. Btes has been appointed Director of the Laboratory at the Plymouth 
Marine Biological Station. 
WE hear that Professor Albert Gaudry has resigned the position of Professor 
of Palzontology at the Jardin des Plantes. 
