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A LARGE addition is being made to the Bergen Museum, from plans by the 

 architect, Mr. Sparre. To the expected cost of /S,50o, the Norwegian government 

 has contributed half, while smaller sums have been given by the municipality of 

 Bergen and by private persons. The number of visitors to this museum shows a 

 steady increase, being 52,015 for 1896, of whom nearly four-fifths came on Sundays. 



Professor Achille Tellini has published a long account of the Museum of 

 Natural History in the R. Istituto tecnico "Antonio Zanon" in Udine, with a note 

 on other collections in the city of Friuli. The notice appears in the Aimali of the 

 Institute, series 2, volume xiv., 1S96 (1897). The museum was founded in 1866, and 

 contains the Bartolomeo Gastaldi collection, and that of Giovanni Michelotti, beside 

 many specimens given by Pirona, Taramelli, Zucchari, Brodmann, Bicknell, and 

 Gropplero. The other collections to be found in Friuli, and shortly described in the 

 pamphlet, are: the Museum of the "Jacopo Stellini " Lyceum; the Museum of 

 Natural History of the Udine Archiepiscopal Seminary ; the Provincial Museum of 

 Natural History; those of the Gymnasium, and of the " Scuole reali " of Gorizia ; 

 and the Museum of Natural History at Trieste. Mention is also made of many 

 private collections in the district. 



An Educational Museum was opened at the State House, Boston, U.S.A., on 

 May I. It includes, says Science, the exhibits of the Massachusetts schools at the 

 Columbian Exposition, together with the work of other schools, school appliances, 

 and a pedagogical library. Among educational appliances one might well include 

 methods of museum installation ; and such an exhibit would be of interest to many, 

 whether at Boston or elsewhere. 



The Field Columbian Museum, Chicago, has purchased from the widow of 

 Dr. Arthur Schott, the plants collected by him in Campeche, Tabasco, Upper 

 Mexico, Hungary, and elsewhere. 



The following fifteen candidates are recommended for election by the Council 

 of the Royal Society ;— Dr. R. Bell, geographer of Canada ; Sir W. H. Broadbent, 

 the physician ; Dr. C. Chree, of Kew observatory ; Mr. H. J. Elwes, the entomologist ; 

 Dr. J. S. Haldane, the physiologist ; Prof. W. A. Haswell, the zoologist, of Sydney ; 

 Prof. G. B. Howes, of the Royal College of Science, zoologist ; Dr. F. S. Kipping, 

 chemist, of the Central Technical College; Prof. G. B. Mathews, mathematician, of 

 Bangor ; Mr. G. R. M. Murray, Keeper of the Department of Botany in the British 

 Museum ; Mr. F. H. Neville, physicist, of Sidney Coll., Cambridge ; Prof. H. A. 

 Nicholson, of Aberdeen, invertebrate palseontologist ; Prof. J. Millar Thomson, 

 chemist; Dr. F. T. Trouton, physicist, of Trinity Coll., Dublin; and Mr. H. H. 

 Turner, professor of astronomy at Oxford. 



The gold medal of the Linnean Society has been awarded to the renowned 

 phycologist, Prof. Jacob Georg Agardh, of Lund University, Sweden. 



At the anniversary meeting of the Royal Geographical Society on May 17, the 

 Founder's Medal was presented to Dr. G. M. Dawson, director of the Geological 

 Society of Canada, an account of v;hose work, from the pen of Dr. G. J. Hinde, 

 appears in the Geological Magazine for May last. The Murchison Grant of the same 

 society is awarded to Lieut. S. Vandeleur, for surveying work in Somaliland, along 

 the Abyssinian frontier, and in the Niger region. The Boeck Grant was presented 

 to Lieut. Ryder, of the Danish Navy, and the Cuthbert Peek Grant to Dr. Thorwald 

 Thoroddsen. Mr. C. E. Douglas received the Gill Memorial for his explorations of 

 the New Zealand Alps. 



The 68th Annual Report of the Council of the Zoological Society, recently 

 issued, shows that the number of Fellows on Jan. i was 3.098, an increase of 71 

 over the previous year, and that the income for 1896 was £27,081, being more than 



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