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Dr. Exton was elected the first President, and Mr. David Draper the first Secretary. 

 The Vice-Presidents are Mr. A. R. Sawyer and Mr. John Ballot ; the Honorary 

 President, Mr. Lionel Phillips ; and the honorary Vice-Presidents, Professor 

 T. Rupert Jones and Dr. Guybon Atherstone. The formation of the Society is 

 almost entirely due to the energy of Mr. Draper, whose work on the geology of 

 South Africa was made known during his recent visit to England. The head- 

 quarters of the new Society will be Johannesburg, and the subscription two guineas 

 a year. 



La Feuille des jeunes Naturalistes announces the foundation of a new Society 

 in Prance, La Societe Grayloise d'histoire naturelle et d'archeologie, at Gray, in 

 Haute-Saone. No. 1 of the Bulletin of the Society will shortly appear, and will deal 

 with the cryptogams, the coal-flora of Ronchamp, and the prehistoric antiquities of 

 the district. 



The Kiev branch of the south-west section of the Imperial Russian Geographi- 

 cal Society, which was dissolved by Imperial ukase in 1876, will probably be 

 re-established, thanks to the more liberal spirit of the new regime in Russia. The 

 Society has done excellent work in the ethnography of Ukraine. A new section of 

 the same Society has been formed at Troitzkossavsk, near Kiakhta, on the Russo- 

 Chinese frontier, under the presidency of Dr. Saburov, director of the local lyceum. 

 It will occupy itself mainly with anthropology and ethnology. The Society already 

 possesses the foundations of a museum of archaeology and ethnology. The first 

 meeting was held on September 4-16, 1894. 



The Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg has founded a new section, that of 

 geography and anthropology. Dr. Anutschin has been elected head of the section. 



The Botanical Gazette gives publicity to the fact that the students of the 

 American Brewing Academy of Chicago have among themselves a society which 

 numbers 200 members and is known as " Saccharomyces Cetevisia." 



In 1 891, Dr. G. Baur and the late Mr. C. F. Adams made extensive collections 

 of the land-fauna on the Galapagos Islands. All of the sixteen islands, with 

 exception of Narborough, Wenman, and Culpepper, were visited. We learn that a 

 series of these important collections, containing many new species, described by 

 Allen, Baur, Dall, Garman, Ridgway, and Scudder, is now offered for sale as a 

 whole. Besides single specimens of the gigantic land tortoises (two species from 

 South Albemarle and Duncan), forms of Amblyrhynchus and Tropidurus from the 

 different islands are available, as well as bird-skins representing eleven species. 

 More detailed information will be gladly given by Dr. G. Baur, University of 

 Chicago, Chicago, 111. 



A few weeks ago, says L'Anthvopologie, a well-known professor arrived at the 

 Russian town of Vitebsk for the purpose of making anthropometric studies of the 

 local inhabitants. The measurement of the heads gave rise to the conviction that 

 he was the devil in person affixing his seal to their foreheads, and the more 

 courageous among them resolved to attack him and, if possible, to destroy him. 

 Fortunately, the ispravnik of the district prevented the infuriated peasants from 

 carrying out their intentions, and advised the professor to leave the district with all 

 speed. 



We learn from the Scottish Geographical Magazine that Herr Julius Payer, who 

 was leader of the Austrian expedition on the Tegethoff, intends to lead another 

 expedition to the Arctic regions in 1896. Herr Payer goes mainly for artistic 

 purposes, but a naturalist will accompany the party. M. Andree, the chief 



