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A Museum of Anatomy and Surgery has been founded in St. Petersburg. For 

 its use, a building on the banks of the Neva has been purchased by the Pirogoff 

 Chirurgical Society, and this will be reconstructed with the aid of 60,000 roubles 

 bequeathed to the Society by the late Countess Musin-Pushkin, and 30,000 provided 

 by the Government. The museum is to be arranged on the lines of that of the 

 Royal College of Surgeons. 



The following is the list of awards of the medals and funds made by the 

 Geological Society, London, for the present year : — Wollaston Medal, Professor 

 E. Suess ; Murchison Medal, Mr. T. Mellard Reade ; Lyell Medal, Mr. A. Smith 

 Woodward ; Wollaston Fund, Mr. A. Harker ; Murchison Fund, Mr. P. Lake ; 

 balance of the Lyell Fund, Dr. W. F. Hume and Mr. C. W. Andrews ; Barlow- 

 Jameson Fund, Mr. Joseph Wright, of Belfast, and Mr. Storrie, of Cardiff. 



The Union of Irish Field Clubs is undertaking a Directory of Irish Naturalists, 

 which will doubtless forward the good work being accomplished by the Union, and 

 be useful to their English colleagues. 



We learn from Nature that it is proposed to form a society to bring together 

 more closely those who have taken up reptiles as their hobby, and it is hoped that 

 by this means interest may be kept up and mutual help secured by all concerned, 

 Dr. Arthur Stradling has consented to become President. In order that a working 

 basis may be secured at once, those who intend to become members should com- 

 municate with the Secretary, Kand Rectory, Wragby, Lincolnshire. 



The third International Congress of Psychology will be held at Munich from 

 August 4 to August 7 in this year. The President Elect is Professor Stumpf, of 

 Berlin ; the Vice-President is Professor Lipps, who is also chairman of the 

 reception-committee. All persons, whether male or female, who desire to further 

 the progress of psychology are invited. The subscription is 15s., which entitles 

 members to the daily journal and to a copy of the report. All who intend to read 

 papers are requested to send their names and subjects to the Secretary, Dr. Freiherr 

 von Schrenk-Notzing, Max Josephstrasse 2, Munich, before May 15. 



A meeting of the Farmers Institute was held at the New Mexico College of 

 Agriculture from January 2 to January 4, when various papers dealing with the 

 practical and scientific aspects of agriculture were read. The chair was taken by 

 Professor S. P. McCrea, Director of the New Mexico Agricultural Experiment 

 Station. 



A company has been formed in Paris in order to extend the methods of Pasteur 

 in medicine. Messrs. Duclaux, W. Roux, J. B. Pasteur, and Radot form the 

 executive council. A monument is to be erected at Melun, near Fontainebleau, to 

 commemorate Pasteur's experiments in vaccinating sheep suffering from anthrax, 

 which were first made in that district. It is also proposed to erect a statue of the 

 deceased investigator in some public place in Paris. 



According to the Irish Naturalist, Professor Sollas, of Dublin, will leave in 

 March for Sydney, to take charge of an expedition that is being despatched to make 

 deep borings in a coral atoll. The scheme, which is supported by a strong scientific 

 committee, has been financed by the Royal Society to the extent of /800 ; and the 

 Government are placing a gunboat at the disposal of the party, to convey them 

 from Sydney to Funifuti, in the Central Pacific, which has been selected as the 

 scene of operations. 



By the kindness of Dr. Henry Woodward we are able to announce the safety of 

 Dr. Forsyth Major and his companion Robert. They were at Antananarivo on 

 December 1. Dr. Major states that the country is somewhat unsettled around 

 Vakinanzaratra, but improvement is rapid. Both have enjoyed good health, and 

 worked in the forest right through the rainy season of last year without harm. 



