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NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, ETC. 367 



Deposits, by the Rev. F. Smith ; Flowering Plants, by the late Buchanan White ; 

 Mollusca, by H. Coates ; Birds, by Colonel Drummond Hay ; Mammalia, by 

 Buchanan White; and Chemistry of the Tay Water, by Dr. Andrew Thomson. 

 This series of local papers is of considerable value and interest, and we shall be 

 glad to see a second series dealing with the groups not yet investigated 



The Perthshire Society's Museum, which is in Tay Street, Perth, contains repre- 

 sentative collections of the local fauna, flora, and petrology of Perthshire, as well 

 as an index collection of general natural science. The latter is kept entirely distinct 

 from the former. The new museum building will be opened by Sir William 

 Flower on Friday, November 29, when, if we may judge of the energy of those 

 engaged, everything will be completely arranged. 



The Transactions and Annual Report of the Manchester Microscopical Society 

 for 1894 presents us with a portrait of Professor Weiss, the president, whose 

 address on "The Chromosomes of the Nucleus" is printed in full. The Society 

 numbers 217. It suffered a serious loss in the death of Professor Milnes Marshall, 

 its president for seven years. To commemorate his name a subscription list was 

 opened, and ^'33 pounds collected, of which ;^20 was sent to the Owens College 

 Committee, and the remainder spent on books for the Society's hbrary. There is a 

 balance in hand of £15 in the treasurer's report. Besides Dr. Weiss's address, there 

 is a paper by Dr. Moss on " The Value of the Radula as an aid to Classification," 

 in which the author shows that the radula alone cannot be of sufficient value for 

 the purpose. There is, also, among other papers, an interesting account of a visit 

 to Cumbrae and those grand old field-naturalists, Mr. and Mrs. David Robertson. 



Last month we briefly noted that Mr. Mansel-Pleydell had been the recipient 

 of a piece of silver plate in consideration of his services to Dorsetshire natural 

 history. We find that the occasion was the more interesting as it marked the 

 twentieth anniversary of the foundation of the Dorset Natural History and Anti- 

 quarian Club, which was due in great part to Mr. Mansel-Pleydell's exertions. The 

 plate took the form of a flower vase in delicate allusion to Mr. Mansel-Pleydell's 

 last work, " The Flora of Dorset." 



The accounts of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society are before us. 

 They show, in common with those of other similar societies, how much good work can 

 be done with a little money. The new number of the Transactions (vol. vi., part i) 

 is full of interesting papers, notably one on Neolithic Man in Thetford district by 

 W. G. Clarke. Mr. Southwell has some notes on additions to the Norwich Museum 

 in 1894, the principal of which were a variety of Caprimulgus europicus, a Scandi- 

 navian form of the Dipper {Cinclus melanogaster), a Richard's Pipit (Anthus ricardi) 

 among local birds ; a Rose Perch {Scoipisna dactylopfei'a){rom Yarmouth, an addition 

 to the fishes of the East Coast, and two large Breams {Ahramis branta) from the 

 river Wensum. Mr. F. Danby Palmer has collected some valuable notes on old- 

 time Yarmouth naturalists. 



A SUBSCRIPTION list has been opened in Bristol for the purchase of Mr. 

 Nockler's collection of Jenner relics in connection with the introduction of 

 vaccination. 



A BRONZE bust of Robert Brown, the botanist, has been presented by Miss 

 Paton to the Montrose Town Council. It has been placed in a niche in the house 

 where Brown was born in 1773. 



In the Proceedinf;s of the Birmingham Natural History Society (vol. ix. (2), 1895), 

 Mr. W. Jerome Harrison has published a Bibliography of Midland Glacialogy, 

 including over 150 papers, ranging from 1811-1894, which should be instrumental in 

 stemming the flood of glacial literature. 



