1897] NEWS 141 
the collections of Hugh Strickland, W. S. Symonds, and Wynnington Ingram. 
Among other collections in the Museum are one of local birds, and a good one of 
foreign marine shells the gift of the late Sir Geo. Whitmore. The heavy task of 
transferring and re-arranging all the material falls on the shoulders of the curator, 
Mr W. H. Edwards. 
THE Zoological Museum of the Royal Academy of Science, St Petersburg, has 
acquired thirty-three specimens of fossil bones and numerous remains of Post- 
Tertiary mammals collected by J. Savenkov at Krasnoyarsk. Among them are 
some bones and a piece of skin of Rhinoceros tichorhinus, which were taken from a 
well-preserved specimen of a rhinoceros, covered with skin, found 60 versts east 
of Kasatschje, on the bank of the Charaula, a left tributary of the Tomskaja. 
In the Annuaire Géologique et Minéralogique de la Russie, vol. ii. livr. 3-4, 
from which this news is taken, Marie Pavlov describes, with photographs, the 
occurrence of a mammoth (Hlephas primigenius trogontherit) near the town of 
Yaroslavl, found during the making of a railroad, at a depth of 6 metres. The 
remains have been sent to the Geological Museum of Moscow University. 
TuHaT there is still something new to be found in England is constantly 
being shown by the active members of the Hull Scientific and Field Natur- 
alists’ Club. The last item is the Moonwort (Botrychiwm lunaria), which Mr 
Waterfall has seen growing wild at York. Mr Fierke, in a lecture on crabs, 
gave a list of those found on the Yorkshire coast, and urged members to devote 
a little more of their attention to the rocks and pools of the sea-shore, where, 
we agree with him, they will find a rich field for useful work. The programme 
of excursions and meetings for July-September should induce a large number to 
join this vigorous body, which also holds out the inducement of a new and 
better room over a cycle shop. 
Amone those who received Jubilee honours were: Dr Edward Frankland, 
Dr Huggins, Mr J. Norman Lockyer, Dr Thorne Thorne, Mr Wolfe Barry, 
President of the Institute of Civil Engineers, and Admiral Wharton, Hydro- 
grapher to the Admiralty, to be K.C.B.; Mr W. H. M. Christie, Astronomer 
Royal, to be C.B.; Sir William MacCormac, President of the Royal College of 
Surgeons, Dr S. Wilkes, President of the Royal College of Physicians, and Mr 
Thos. Smith, Surgeon-in-ordinary to Her Majesty, to be Baronets ; Sir Joseph 
Hooker and Lieut.-General Strachey to be G.C.S.I.; Mr William Crookes, 
President-designate of the British Association, and Dr Gowers, to be knights ; 
Sir Herbert: E. Maxwell to be Privy Councillor. 
WE have received the report of the Raffles Library and Museum, Singapore, 
for 1896, by Dr R. Hanitsch. A number of new cases have been introduced, and 
the museum has undergone entire rearrangement. There is now exhibited the 
beginning of a collection of the local marine fauna. A shifting of specimens has 
also taken place, allowing more room to the birds and reptiles, and concentrating 
the ethnological collections. Owing to the absence of a workshop, the exhibition 
rooms had to be closed while the changes were in progress. Among the acquisi- 
tions of the museum is a specimen of Madreporaria reticulata(?), 4 ft. 5 in. 
by 2 ft. 8 in, picked up on October 20, 1896, by the Cable ship Sherard 
Osborne in the Bali Straits, at fifteen fathoms, where it had grown round a 
cable laid in 1888, thus giving another proof of the rapid growth of corals. 
Lieut. Harvey, R.E., lent a boat and crew for dredging excursions on several 
occasions, and other dredging trips were arranged by Mr G. Holt and the Com- 
mittee. A zoological station has often been proposed, and is greatly needed ; a 
simple movable shed, with plain furniture, jars, and preserving fluids, is all that 
is absolutely required. 
