354 NATURAL SCIENCE [ November 
By a slip last month we recorded an item of news that belonged to last year. 
Mr J. H. Collins was this year the recipient of the Bolitho Gold Medal. 
Pror. G. 8. Morse has received from the Emperor of Japan the Order of the 
Third Class of the Rising Sun “in recognition of your signal service while you 
were in the faculty of science in the Imperial University of Tokio, and also in 
opening in our country the way for zoological, ethnological, and anthropological 
science, and in establishing the institutions for the same.” 
_Pror. Dr Simon ScHWENDERER, Director of the botanical institute of the 
Berlin University, has been made a knight of the order Pour le Merite, in the 
class of Science and Art. 
ProFEssor Knutu of Kiel started in October on a scientific expedition round 
the world. According to the Botanisches Centralblatt, he will be away eight or ten 
months, and will visit India, Java, China, Japan, Hawaii, and North America. 
THE Hayden Memorial Geological Award for 1898 goes to Prof. Otto Martin 
Torell, director of the Geological Survey of Sweden. It is conferred by the 
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and consists of a bronze medal and 
the interest on the endowment funds. 
Mr W. P. Pycrarr of the British Museum has been entrusted with the 
examination and description of the embryology, pterylography, etc., of the 
Megapodes and other birds, collected by the Willey Expedition. 
Mr W. R. Oaitvie Grant of the British Museum, and Dr H. O. Forbes of 
the Liverpool Museum, accompanied by a taxidermist, leave on the 28th October 
for a scientific exploration of the Island of Socotra. They will remain there 
about three months, and will make a general collection of the natural history of 
the island. Among other interesting things to be looked for are supposed new 
forms of a wild goat and a wild ass. Dr Forbes will no doubt get a few lessons 
in turtle-riding. 
WE understand that a paper left behind by the late Félix Bernard of Paris, 
entitled “ Recherches ontogéniques et morphologique sur la coquille des Lamelli- 
branches” will be published shortly in the Annales des Sciences Naturelles. We 
are extremely glad to find that some one is looking after the manuscripts of our 
lamented friend. 
THE Botanical Gazette states that Mr A. A. Heller has resigned his position 
at the University of Minnesota, to devote himself entirely to collecting. Corre- 
spondence having reference to the Exchange Bureau should therefore be addressed 
to Prof. Conway Macinillan. 
Dr Scuarrr and Mr Welch have, according to the Jrish Naturalist, made a pre- 
liminary dredging trip to Lough Neagh, with interesting results. Dr Scharff and 
Mr G. H. Carpenter made a preliminary exploration of Macgillicuddy’s Reeks in 
September and hope to publish their results shortly in the above-named journal. 
Str Dyce DuckwortH delivered the Harveian Oration at the College of 
Physicians on October 18. Dr Wm. Ord will deliver the Bradshaw Lecture 
on November 10. The Goulstonian Lectures for 1899 will be devoted to the 
pathology of the thyroid gland, and will be delivered by Dr G. R. Murray. The 
1899 Lumleian Lectures will be delivered by Dr Samuel Gee. The Croonian 
Lecturer for 1899 is Prof. Bradbury, and for 1900 Dr F. W. Mott.—WNature. 
Tue Biological Station of the University of Indiana will next year be in 
Winona Park, Warsaw, Ind., eighteen miles from its present station in Vawter 
Park. One hundred and five students, representing eight States, were present 
this year, the session closing on August 18. The session consisted of two terms 
