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The Liverpool Naturalists' Field Club held their Annual Meeting on January 25. 

 Mr. G. H. Morton, the President, read an Address on the " Recent and Fossil 

 Flora and Fauna of the country around Liverpool." This field-club was the first, 

 or one of the first, started in this country, and by the end of its first year totalled 

 482 members (1861). Five years later the total membership was 725, while now the 

 membership is under 300. The chief work of the Association all along has been 

 done in Botany. 



We learn from the newspapers that the Mitchell Library of Glasgow has 

 received a bequest of /500 from a man who passed as a tramp and who lived in a 

 model lodging house at Vauxhall. The incident is so unusual that it is as well to 

 chronicle it. 



On February 13 the Oxford University Junior Scientific Club held its 150th 

 meeting. This club has now been in existence a little over twelve years, and its 

 popularity shows no signs of decreasing. The editor of its Journal regrets, however, 

 that the junior members contribute little to the discussions and less to the papers. 

 The Oxford undergraduate still retains a wise dread of making a fool of himself. 

 Among papers recently reported in the Journal are an interesting account of Opistho- 

 coinus by Mr. Pycraft, and a note on the use of certain Aniline Stains by Mr. R. A. 

 Buddicom, which should prove of service to the histologist. Should this meet the 

 eye of any old members of the Club, we hope it will induce them to subscribe to the 

 Journal the small sum of 5s. per annum. Its editor is now A. W. Brown, Christ 

 Church, Oxford. 



The third International Zoological Congress will be held at Leyden in September. 

 Those intending to join should write to Dr. P. P. C. Hoek, Helder, Holland. 



The eleventh German Geographical Congress will be held in Bremen, April 17 

 to 19. Dr. W. Wolkenhauer, Laagenstrasse 44, Bremen, is the Secretary. The 

 special subjects for consideration are: — " Polar Exploration, especially the state of 

 the South Polar Question"; " Oceanography and Maritime Meteorology, as well 

 as the development of Charts " ; " Commercial Geography " ; " Geography of the 

 German North Sea Coast " ; " School Geography." 



The American Museum of Natural History, New York, has purchased the 

 unique collection of fossil mammalia made by Proiessor E. D. Cope, of Philadelphia. 

 The Museum thus acquires a valuable series of type specimens, and increases the 

 already important addition of fossil mammalia made to its collections since 

 Professor H. F. Osborn assumed the direction of the Department of Vertebrate 

 Palaeontology. 



The Museum at Hastings, originally opened in August, 1892, has recently 

 undergone some alterations, and was re opened in January by Lord Brassey. The 

 alterations have permitted the symmetrical grouping of the exhibits under two 

 heads, the works of nature and the works of man. The authorities of this Museum 

 are in full accord with the modern spirit, and endeavour to exemplify the history, 

 the industries, the geology, the botany, and the zoology of their own district. 

 Among the natural history exhibits may be noted collections of Wealden fossils, of 

 bryozoa, and of hydroids, made and arranged by Mr. P. Rufford, whose fine 

 collection of Wealden plants was recently acquired by the British Museum ; a 

 collection of invertebrata, mostly marine, presented by the Rev. J. W. Tottenham ; 

 good collections of birds and British lepidoptera. We learn from the Report that 

 " For educational purposes it is proposed to start a special section in connection with 

 a zoological laboratory, which has now become the usual supplement to a museum. 

 A portion of the museum will be screened off for the use of teachers and pupils, and 

 to be used for the display of specimens stored in chests of drawers." We have so 



