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the affiliated colleges of the University. In addition to this, Science says, he offers 

 to transfer to the city another thirteen acres as a site for the Sutro Library. This 

 contains 200,000 volumes. 



The Board of Governors of the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New 

 Zealand, have issued a guide to the collections, compiled by Captain F. W. Hutton. 

 This has been written " more for the ordinary visitor who would like to know some- 

 thing about the things he is looking at, but whose knowledge is in another direction. 

 The main object, however, of the guide is to make the museum a real educational 

 establishment, and in writing it the wants of teachers have been kept in view." 

 Captain Hutton has succeeded in doing this admirably. 



Attention must be drawn to the remarkably successful case of Bustards 

 recently placed in the British Gallery of the British Museum (Natural History). 

 Among the whole series of taxidermic triumphs at that institution we cannot recall 

 anything better, while as an illustration of the male displaying before the female, it 

 is perfect. 



The statue of Richard Owen to be placed in the hall of the British Museum 

 (Natural History) has during the past month been on view in plaster at the 

 museum. It is a striking likeness and has a satisfactory pose, the hands being 

 especially lifelike. Owen holds a bone of Dinornis, on which he appears to be 

 demonstrating to an audience. 



As we announced in September last year, the Swiney Lectures to be delivered 

 this year by Dr. J. G. Garson, will deal with "The Geological History of Man." 

 As no arrangements have as yet been made for the lecture theatre at the Natural 

 History Museum, Dr. Garson will speak in the lecture theatre of the South 

 Kensington Museum. The lectures will commence on Friday, October 4, and will 

 be continued on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays during the month. They will 

 be delivered at five o'clock, a considerable improvement for public convenience, and 

 will be illustrated by the limelight lantern, thus marking progress in this department. 



The Natural History Department of the Science and Art Museum at Dublin 

 has received the collection of British insects formed by the Rev. W. F. Johnson of 

 Armagh. Many of his specimens of Coleoptera are record finds for the British 

 Islands, and this gives the collection a peculiar interest. 



Mr. Adrien Dollfus announces, in La Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, that he 

 has succeeded in obtaining promises of voluntary assistance in the naming of speci- 

 mens for school museums in France. This is a great stimulus to boy-collectors, who 

 are often hindered from pursuing their subject by the difiiculty of obtaining advice 

 and help. 



The Report of the Geological Photographs Committee of the British Association 

 shows good progress. One thousand and fifty- five photographs were received and 

 registered up to the month of August, 1894, and 123 have been received during the 

 last twelve months. The collection will shortly be deposited in the Museum of 

 Practical Geology. The Committee issue a circular of recommendations as to 

 suitable apparatus, size of photograph, etc. It is greatly to be desired that the 

 Committee should induce some person in England to devote his attention to the 

 publication of a series of geological photographs, and so render them accessible 

 to the public, as is done by Mr. Welch, of Belfast, whose collection of photographs 

 of geological features in Ireland is remarkable alike for beauty of execution, 

 uniformity of size, and scientific interest. 



