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for his long and valuable researches into the palaeontology of the rocks of Ireland. 
We were quite aware that this had been a. possibility for some years past, and 
hasten to congratulate Mr Wright on his well-deserved distinction. 
THE monument to Charcot will be formally unveiled on October 28rd, in the 
Salpétricre, Paris. 
A tire of William Turner of Cambridge, 1507-1568, one of, if not the earliest 
British zoologist, has been contributed to the Zoologist for August, by the Rev. 
H, N. Macpherson. 
A MEMoIR of Fritz Miiller, the Brazilian naturalist, is to be undertaken by 
Dr A. Moller, of Eberswalde. Dr Moller begs the loan of letters or material that 
will help him in his task. 
Tue following grants have been made by the Berlin Academy :—2000 marks 
to Prof. Engler, for East African plants ; 600 marks to Prof. Graebner, for the study 
of German Heaths ; 500 marks to Dr Loesner, to complete his monograph on the 
Aquifoliaceae. 
Mr A. J. Herpertson, lecturer on geography in the Heriot-Watt College, 
Edinburgh, has obtained the degree of Ph.D. multa cum laude in geography at the 
University of Frieburg, in Baden. Dr Herbertson’s thesis was on the “ Distribu- 
tion of rainfall over the earth’s surface,” a subject which he has investigated while 
compiling the rainfall maps for the physical atlas about to be published by 
Bartholomew. 
Tue Hon. John Macgregor has presented a cheque for £500 to the fund for 
the endowment of a chair of Forestry in the University of Edinburgh. It will be 
remembered that the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society has asked the 
Government for a grant for the establishment of a State Forest near Edinburgh 
for research in forestry. 
THE Swiney Lectures on Geology, under the direction of the Trustees of the 
British Museum, will be delivered by Dr R. H. Traquair on Mondays, 
Wednesdays, and Fridays at 5 p.m., beginning Monday, October 3. They will 
be on the Palaeontology of Great Britain, and will be given in the Lecture 
Theatre of the South Kensington Museum. 
THe New Whale Gallery at the British Museum is the subject of an illus- 
trated article by Mr Lydekker in Knowledge for September 1. Owing to the 
difficulty of position, however, the photograph does not give one a proper idea of 
the gallery, which is well worthy a visit even from those not specially interested 
in zoology. 
WE learn from Science that the Lacoe collection of fossil insects contains the 
types of about two-thirds of those described from North America. Besides these 
there are 3500 specimens from the Oeningen Tertiaries, and a large collection from 
Florrisant, Colorado. The United States National Museum has now perhaps a 
collection of fossil insects second to none, in any case it has a collection of the 
first importance. 
Tue late Professor Victor Lemoine bequeathed his palaeontological collection 
to the Paris Museum, In order that the collection may be further supplemented 
Madame Lemoine has handed over the land at Cornay, near Rheims, whence the 
fossils were obtained, to the same institution. 
Tur South African Museum has so far advanced as to issue “ Annals of the 
South African Museum,” a handsome octavo serial, well illustrated by lithographic 
plates, and printed and published in London by West, Newman & Co. It will 
appear at irregular intervals, as matter for publication is available, and will 
