GLEANINGS. 261 
Grorcr Henry Lewes Sruprnrsnie.—This Studentship has been 
founded, in memory of Mr. George Henry Lewes, for the purpose of 
enavling the holder for the time being to devote himself wholly to the 
prosecution of original research in physiology. The Studentship, the 
value of which is slightly under £200 per annum, paid quarterly in 
advance, is tenable for three years, during which time the student is 
required to carry on, under the guidance of a director, physiological 
investigations to the complete exclusion of all other professional occupa- 
tions. No person will be elected as a ‘‘George Henry Lewes Student” 
who does not satisfy the trustees and director first as to the promise of 
success in physiological enquiry, and second as to the need of pecuniary 
assistance. Otherwise all persons of both sexes are eligible. Applica- 
tions, together with such information concerning ability and circum- 
stances, as the candidate may think proper, should be sent to the 
present director, Dr. Michael Foster, New Museums, Cambridge, not 
later than October 15th, 1879. The appointment will be made and duly 
advertised as soon as possible after that date. 
American Prepicrions or Commne Storms.—Much curiosity has been 
excited as to the method by which notices of storms travelling eastward 
over the Atlantic have been telegraphed from New York to the London 
office of that enterprising paper, the New York Herald. Kminent meteor- 
ologists have pointed out that itis long odds against a storm leaving 
the American coast at any date preserving its character and direction 
unchanged across the 3,000 miles of ocean which it would have to traverse 
before reaching this country. But it seems to have been forgotten that 
swift ocean steamers are continually proceeding from Europe to America, 
arriving at New York a little before an ordinary cyclone, which they met 
with say in the mid-Atlantic, could reach England. These steamers are 
probably boarded immediately on their arrival in America by the agents 
of the Herald, their logs overhauled, any storms through which they 
passed are examined in connection with those which have left the 
American shores some days previously, and from the information so 
gained telegrams are prepared and sent off. There can be no doubt but 
that if it were possible to maintain some five or six ocean stations—light- 
ships of some kind—at distances of from 100 to 500 miles west of 
Treland, and in telegraphic communication with our coast, our Weather 
Office could accurately foretell every storm approaching us from that 
direction. Whether it will be possible to fix and maintain such stations 
is a question for our inventors. 
Mr. Marspen’s Narursan History Acrency.—No branch of Natural 
History has made greater advances within the past few years than that 
which deals with the relationships of the faune of different countries, and 
the attendant phenomena of variation or similitude. The studies of 
Ornithology and Entomology specially lend themselves to this branch of 
enquiry, and as a consequence of the greater attention paid by critical 
students to this subject there has sprung up a considerable branch of 
business devoted to the sale or exchange of rare and foreign birds and 
their eggs; and insects and their larve. The advantages of a well- 
conducted agency of this nature must often have been experienced by 
those who may have had occasion to work out special groups, or to 
institute comparisons of allied forms of birds or insects. We have 
recently had an opportunity of visiting Mr. H. W. Marsden, of Glouces- 
ter, who has for many years conducted such an agency with a gradually- 
increasing amount of success and a proportionately-enlarging sphere of 
usefulness. We have been much interested in his extensive stock of rare 
birds, eggs, and insects from all parts of the world, but more especially 
from those regions which Mr. Sclater has named the Palearctic, 
embracing Europe and Amurland. Mr. Marsden spares no pains to 
