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intervals, where each bringing his share, will lay before the meeting the researches 

 he pursues, the facts that he observes, and the novelties which may prove interesting 

 to the establishment." 



Such is the excellent and liberal view of the officers of the Paris Museum, a 

 view which cannot fail to bring about the end desired by the distinguished head. 

 Let us hope that Professor Milne-Edwards' example will be followed in other 

 institutions of a like nature. 



From the Report of the Manchester Museum from 1890-1894, just issued, we 

 learn that the opening of the Museum on every weekday has resulted in a marked 

 increase in the number of visitors. A more intimate relation with local societies 

 has been established, and permission has been given to the Manchester Concho- 

 logical Society to hold its monthly meetings in the Museum buildings. The label- 

 ling of the exhibited specimens has been improved in that the Museum now employs 

 a regular printer, who turns out from 100 to 200 labels each week. Distribution 

 maps have been adopted and specially coloured so as to show range both in time 

 and space of the object exhibited. The petrological collections have been examined, 

 and the rock-sections catalogued and arranged ; the Forbes collection of meteorites 

 has been catalogued ; the minerals have been re-arranged by Dr. Burghardt on a 

 chemical basis. Mr. Ogilvie Grant, of the British Museum, is naming the bird-skins, 

 which are being arranged in systematic order. The Insecta have been thoroughly 

 overhauled by Mr. J. Ray Hardy, and several important collections have been 

 incorporated. Mr. Pearcey has arranged a table case of foraminifera, and the 

 collection as now exhibited is one of the best in any public museum. The botanical 

 collections have been improved by the exhibition of flowers, leaves and fruits in 

 spirit, a judicious arrangement possessing considerable advantages over the dried 

 specimens exhibited in most museums. A long list of donations shows that the 

 Manchester Museum has many and generous friends. We congratulate Mr. W. E. 

 Hoyle on his excellent and favourable Report, and shall look with interest to the 

 catalogue of the library, which he promises shortly. 



Professor Sir William Flower opened the course of lectures at the 

 Whitechapel Free Museum on Thursday, March 14, by an address on 

 " Museums." Under the curatorship of Miss Hall, who was at first associated with 

 A. Vaughan Jennings, this Museum is rapidly assuming an important place in the 

 education of East London ; its collections are exhibited on approved modern 

 principles, and it is not as yet overburdened with the lumber of centuries that is 

 usually to be found in provincial museums. 



The annual meeting of the German Zoological Society will be held at Strass- 

 burg, in Elsass, from June 4 to 6. Professor Ehlers will open the meeting. Among 

 the papers promised are "On the Origin of the Vertebrata," by Professor Goette ; 

 " Nemertines," by Dr. Burger; "The Origin of the Vagus Nerves in the Bony 

 Fishes," by Dr. B. Haller ; and " Researches on the Cell," by Professor Dr. H. E. 

 Ziegler. 



The excursion list ot the Geologists' Association was published on February 21. 

 There is a larger list than usual, no less than fourteen separate outings being 

 arranged. Of these nine are half-day and three are whole-day, while four days are 

 set aside for Easter, four for Whitsun, and five for the summer excursion. At 

 Easter the Association will visit the Tertiary deposits on the north and south of the 

 Isle of Wight ; at Whitsun the Jurassic deposits of the Banbury district ; while the 

 long excursion will be devoted to the study of that remarkably interesting district, 

 County Antrim. This summer excursion will be the second visit to Ireland made 

 by the Association. 



