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refused to admit telegony. Mr. Leonard Hill showed some of the guinea-pigs on 

 which he had repeated some of the experiments of Brown-Sequard, previously 

 repeated by Romanes (see Natural Science, vol. viii,, p. 286) ; he had failed to 

 prove the inheritance of a character produced by mutilation, the droop in the left 

 eyelid of guinea-pigs whose parents had had the left cervical sympathetic divided 

 turning out to be due to ophthalmia, from which a guinea-pig may suffer as well 

 as a man. 



The annual course of Christmas lectures, specially adapted for children, at 

 the Royal Institution this year will be delivered by Professor Silvanus Thompson, 

 F.R.S., on " Visible and Invisible Light." 



The presentation of the first Bolitho Medal to Mr. Robert Etheridge, sen., is a 

 peculiarly graceful act. We believe it has been recorded that Mr. Etheridge literally 

 sat down and wept over the geology of the Devon and Cornish area when first he 

 attempted to solve its mysteries, but having dried his tears, finally produced the 

 famous paper which unlocked many of its secrets. The medal is of gold and is 

 awarded by the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. 



The Hull Scientific and Field Naturalists' Club (Secretary, T. Sheppard, 78 Sher- 

 burn Street), has an attractive programme of lectures for the current session. Those 

 that are something more than the usual type delivered to a local society appear to be 

 "Recent Progress in Local Entomology," by J. W. Boult and J. Porter, and " The 

 Development of an Enghsh Village" (with local examples), by J. R. Boyle. 



The activity of Norwich as a centre of scientific work is well known, and the 

 pages of scientific literature have always provided a goodly string of Norfolk 

 men, especially in geology. Mr. James Moltram, in the last part (vol. vii., 

 pt. 2) of the Tratis. Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Soc, has now given us a history 

 of the Norfolk and Norwich Microscopical Society. This body was founded by 

 W. K. Bridgman, Rev. J. Crompton, Thos. Brightwell, Rev. J. Landy Brown, and 

 Arthur Morgan in 1852 and lasted until 1884. The Society did not itself publish, 

 but the papers of its members found a place in other journals. It will be sufficient 

 to mention that among its members were Frederick Kitton, Donald Dalrymple, 

 Elijah Bleakley, H. G. Grasspoole, Francis Sutton, and J. B. Bridgman. 



It is pleasing to learn that the Royal Photographic Society's Exhibition was 

 exceedingly well attended this year. Numerous excellent skiagraphs were shown, 

 one of the thorax, showing the outline of the heart distinctly ; several photographs 

 of plants and flowers ; also microphotographs of scientific and technical interest. 



The Geological Society of Stockholm has completed twenty-five years of 

 active life, and the fact is commemorated in a special number of its Forhandlihgar 

 (No. 173), to which contributions have been made by A. E. Nordenskiold, A. E- 

 Tornebohm, L. Holmstrom, F. Svenonius, Hj. Sjogren, M. WeibuU, H. Backstrom, 

 J. J. Sederholm, G. Holm, and A. G. Nathorst. 



The next International Congress of Criminal Anthropology will meet in 1901 

 at the Hague, by invitation of the Dutch Government. 



As we have already stated, the International Conference, held under the auspices 

 of the Royal Society to consider a catalogue of Scientific Papers, decided that the 

 International Catalogue of Scientific Literature to be begun in 1900, should relate to 



