212 NATURAL SCIENCE [September 
Lapy Humpury, widow of the late Sir George Humphry, Professor of 
Surgery at Cambridge, has presented her husband’s library to the surgical 
department of the university. 
On July 8th, the Geographical Institute of Lisbon, founded in commemora- 
tion of the 400th anniversary of Vasco da Gama’s departure for the Indies, was 
opened by the Geological Society of Portugal. 
THE German Botanical Society begins its annual meeting at Brunswick on 
September 21 at the same time as the German Association of Naturalists and 
Physicians. There will be an exhibition of scientific apparatus. 
Pror. Gustav Born, of Breslau, has received the Sémmering prize from the 
Senckenberg Society of Natural History at Frankfurt for his investigations on 
the growth of the larvae of amphibia. 
In the absence of Prof. Biitschli, Prof. V. Carus presided over the annual 
meeting of the German Zoological Society at Kiel, June 9-11. There were present 
thirty-seven members and thirteen guests. The next meeting will be held at 
Heidelberg at Whitsuntide, 1898. 
Dr Henry WoopwarpD, keeper of the department of geology in the British 
Museum (Natural History), has been permitted by the Treasury to retain his 
office for another two years. According to the rules of retirement in the Civil 
Service, his term of service would have expired next November. 
Tue Darwin statue at Shrewsbury was duly unveiled, and stands in front of 
the Free Library. It is the work of a Shrewsbury man, Mr Horace Mountford, 
is said to be an excellent likeness, and is the gift of the Shropshire Horticultural 
Society. 
ProFEssors D. T. Macdougal and Campbell, representing a Commission from 
the American Universities, have visited Jamaica with a view of founding there a 
botanical research laboratory. Other Commissioners have gone to Trinidad. On 
their return to the United States they will compare notes as to the best locality 
and come to a decision. 
Mr George Murray and Mr V. H. Blackman have returned from their trip 
to Panama, after a successful and profitable voyage. They have obtained a large 
quantity of plankton containing many new specimens, which will shortly be 
worked out, and have made numerous interesting observations on living forms. 
They spent two or three days in Jamaica on the way. 
AccorpiIne to Science, Mr R. W. Porter and Mr A. V. Shand, who are with 
Lieut. Peary, expect to pass the winter in Baffin Land for the purpose of ethno- 
logical and zoological studies and collections. In the summer of 1898 they hope 
to travel further north and to return to Aberdeen on a whaling ship from Cum- 
berland Sound. 
THE first meeting of the Jersey Natural Science Association was held on 
August 5, Dr A. C. Godfray in the chair. The attendance was small but 
enthusiastic, and included many well-known names. We wish the Association 
every success, but hope they will not find the usual trouble arising from the pro- 
posed library and museum. 
Amone those visiting Russia during the meeting of the Seventh International 
Geological Congress at St Petersburg are :—Dr John Ball, Mr L. Belinfante, Mr 
F, A. Bather, Prof. J. F. Blake, Mr J. H. Cooke, Mr P. Emary, Mr L. Fletcher, Sir 
Archibald Geikie, Mr Upfield Green, Mr G. F. Harris, Dr Frazer Hume, Prof. 
M‘Kenny Hughes, Mr Philip Lake, Mr D. A. Louis, Mr Henry Louis, Prof. 
Sollas, Dr P. L. Sclater, Mr G. A. Stonier, Mr J. J. H. Teall, Prof. H. G. Seeley, 
Mr H. Bauerman, and Dr Wheelton Hind. 
