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The Hundred-and-tenth Meeting of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union was held 

 at Knaresborough, on Saturday, July 14, 1S94, ^'^^ the investigation of the Nidd 

 Valley from Nidd Viaduct to Goldsborough Mill. 



The meeting of the French Association for the Advancement of Science will 

 take place at Caen, from the 9th to the 15th August; the Geological Society of 

 France will hold their extraordinary meeting at Lyons from the 19th to the 26th 

 August ; and the Botanical Societies of France and Switzerland at Geneva and the 

 Valais from the 5th to the 14th August. 



The meeting of the Museums' Association at Dublin called out some interesting 

 papers. Mr. H. B. White of the Dublin Museum described certain of the fittings 

 and appliances there used. Mr. W. E. Hoyle, of the Manchester Museum, des- 

 cribed some beautifully arranged cases, illustrative of the structure of the 

 Foraminifera and the classification of the Pelecypoda ; the latter explain the two 

 difierent systems of arrangement according to shell-teeth and gill-structure. Messrs. 

 Hoyle and Bolton explained an elaborate system of cataloguing fossils on a modifi- 

 cation of Dewey's decimal method. Mr. G. H. Carpenter showed some attractive 

 cases that he has arranged in the Dublin Museum to illustrate the chief features in 

 the struggle for life, evolution, and geographical distribution of animals. Mr. 

 H. O. Forbes, of Liverpool, advocated the centralisation of type-specimens in metro- 

 politan museums, a suggestion that gave rise to a lively discussion. Mr. F. A. 

 Bather, of the British Museum, had a great quantity of useful information, collected 

 from museums in different distant parts of the world, which he endeavoured to im- 

 part to his colleagues. Professor T. Johnson, of Dublin, upheld the value of a 

 Botanical Museum, especially in its relation to agriculture. 



The Missouri Geological Survey has been in trouble, and we regret to learn 

 that Mr. Arthur Winslow has been forced by circumstances to retire from its 

 directorship. In his successor, however. Dr. C. R. Keyes, who has lately done much 

 good work on the Iowa Survey, the State secures a skilled observer already well 

 acquainted with the geology of Missouri. 



Those interested in the United States Geological Survey will find an apprecia- 

 tive notice of Major Powell's administration in the May-June number of the Journal 

 of Geology. The writer. Professor T. C. Chamberlin, dwells chiefly on the value of a 

 topographic survey inspired by a feeling for the genesis of physiographic features. 



The " Societa Geologica Itahana," which was started in 1881 at Rome, now 

 numbers 223 members. In the last number of its Bolletino (anno xii., fas. 4) will be 

 found a series of papers dealing with the geology of Piedmont, more especially 

 with the fossil Foraminifera, Coniferse, etc., and a geological bibliography of some 

 1,100 entries. 



The " Society for the Study of the Amur Regions " has now become the nucleus 

 of a new branch of the Russian Geographical Society. It will have its head- 

 quarters at Khaborovsk, and be known as " The Amur Branch." A yearly subsidy 

 of 2,000 roubles will be given by the Government. 



The " Recent Territorial Arrangements in Africa " is the title of a short paper 

 by Mr. Ravenstein in the Geographical Journal for July. In it are given two maps, 

 one of the Congo State, and another of the Somali-land area, to illustrate the 

 present arrangements come to by the eagles over the carcass of Africa. 



