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Leicester Museum. — Mr. Montagu Browne, F.Z.S., of Birmingham, 

 author of " Practical Taxidermy," has heen appointed Curator of the 

 Leicester Museum, vice Mr. W. Jerome Harrison, F.G.S., who has been 

 appointed Demonstrator of Science in the Birmingham Board Schools. 



The late Mr. W. A. Lloyd. — It is with regret we announce the 

 sudden death last month of Mr. W. A. Lloyd, at his residence, Lower 

 Norwood. To Mr. Lloyd, probably more than to any one else, the 

 improvements made in the management of Marine Aquaria in recent 

 years are due. 



Great Auk's Eggs. — Two eggs of the Great Auk, recently discovered 

 in an old collection in Edinburgh, were sold by auction by Mr. J. C. 

 Stevens, London, on Friday, July 2nd, and were purchased by Lord 

 Lilford for £100 and 102 guineas respectively. 



" Notes on the Birds of Northamptonshire." — The first instal- 

 ment of a work bearing this title has been printed for private circulation 

 by the author, Lord Lilford, F.L.S., F.Z.S. The notes are most 

 interesting, and all the more valuable from being a record of personal 

 observations. This first instalment contains descriptions of seventy-five 

 species of birds. 



Photography. — The Secretary of the Photographical Section of the 

 Northamptonshire Natural History Society (Mr. H. Manfield) has been 

 awarded a medal for photographic exhibits at the Sydney Exhibition. 



Microscopical. — Mr. Thomas Bolton, 17, Ann Street, Birmingham, 

 has issued a pamphlet, price threepence, on the best methods of 

 examining living organisms under the microscope. 



Oxford Natural History Society. — A society already numbering 

 fifty members has been formed at Oxford. Its meetings will be held (by 

 permission of Professor Lawson) in the lecture rooms at the Botanical 

 Gardens. The sections will be presided over as follows : — Botany, 

 Prof essor Lawson, M. A. , (Phanerogams.) and Mr . H. Boswell (Cryptogams ;) 

 Ornithology, Mr. Oliver V. Aplin ; Entomology, Professor Westwood, 

 F.K.S. ; Geology, Mr. E. B. Boulton. Mr. G. C. Druce, F.L.S., is the 

 Hon. Sec. 



Sunshine Recorder. — The Meteorological Department has lately 

 issued to its principal stations a simple, yet trustworthy, instrument, 

 whereby the number of hours of sunshine is registered daily with 

 accuracy. This sunshine recorder consists of a glass ball, behind which 

 a graduated card, bent in the form of a semi-circle, is held in a brass 

 ring. The glass ball acts, of course, as a convex lens, and, when the 

 sun is shining, brings the rays to a focus just on the card, which is 

 thereby charred. As the sun's place changes in the sky, so does the 

 spot of light travel along the card ; but when clouds obscure the sun, an 

 uncharred interval is seen on the card. We trust there will be plenty of 

 work for this instrument this year. 



A Fresh Water Jelly Fish. — Graspedacustes Soiverbii, the name 

 given by Prof. Pay Lankester to a remarkable kind of Jelly Fish or 

 Medusa found recently in the Victoria Regia tank in the gardens of the 

 Botanic Society, London, has been replaced by Limnocodium victoria, 

 (Xl/ivr) a pond, and kw5uv a bell,) given priorly by Dr. Allman. It is new, 

 and the only Medusa which inhabits fresh water. It nourishes in water 

 at a temperature of 90° Fahrenheit, and is supposed to have been 

 introduced with tropical water weeds. Hundreds of adult specimens 

 are now in the tank. They measure only one-third of an inch across 

 the disc. Nature, of June 24th, contains a very full account of this 

 interesting organism. 



