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H, C. Rawlinson, F.R.S., late President Royal Geo- 

 graphical Society, 



W. B. Baskcomb. 



James K. Shuttleworth. 



Geo. Busk, F.R.S. 



Geo. J. Allman, F.R.S., President of the Linnean 

 Society. 



J. Arthur Phillips. 



T. H. Huxley, Sec. R.S. 



E. Ray Lankester, F, R. S . 



H. C. Sorby, F.R.S., President of the Royal Micro- 

 scopical Society. 



W. T. Thiselton Dyer, Assistant-Director, Royal 

 Gardens, Kew. 



Henry W. Acland, F.R.S., President of Medical 

 Council. 



H. W. Chisholm, Warden of the Standards. 



D. T. Ansted, M.A., Cant., F.R.S. 



J. H. Gladstone, F.R.S., Fullerian Professor, Royal 



Institution. 

 J. Scott Russell, F.R.S. 



A. Lane Fox, Colonel, F.R.S. 

 Rayleigh, F.R.S. 



Robert S. Ball, LL.D., F.R.S., Astronomer Royal, 

 Ireland. 



H. C. Seddon, Major, R.E. 



Charles V. Walker, F.R.S., President of the Society 

 of Telegraphic Engineers. 



Joseph Whitworth, F.R.S. 



G. Carey Foster, F.R.S., President of the Physical 

 Society. 



Balfour Stewart, F.R.S. 



R. B. Clifton, F.R.S., Professor of Experimental 

 Philosophy, Oxford. 



W. F. Barrett, Prof. Physics, Royal College of Science, 

 Dublin. 



J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S. 



Francis Galton, F. R. S. 



J. Cameron, F.R.S., Major- General, Director Ord- 

 nance Survey. 



M. Foster, F.R.S. 



E. A. Scbiifer. 



B. Samuelson, M.P. 

 E. Klein, F.R.S. 

 W, N. Hartley. 

 Francis Guthrie, LL.B. 



P. Martin Duncan, F.R.S., President of the Geo- 

 logical Society. 



P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. 



J. E. Davis, Capt. R N., Hydrographic Department, 

 Admiralty. 



H. Dent Gardner, 



John Allan Brown, F.R.S. 



William Hackney. 



Ettrick W. Creak, Staff Commander, R.N. 



W. H. Preece. 



W. Chandler Roberts, F.R.S. 



A. B. Kempe, B.A., Barrister-at-Law, Western 

 Circuit. 



Alex. Crum Brown, Professor of Chemistry, Edinburgh 

 University. 



James Dewar, Professor of Mechanism, Cambridge. 



Urban Pritchard, M.D. 



R, H. M. Bosanquet, M.A., F.R.A.S., F.C.S., 

 Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford. 



Sydney H. Vines. 



Alfred E. Fletcher. 



Herbert M'Leod, Prof, of Experimental Science, 

 Indian C.E. College. 



Alex. B. W. Kennedy, C.E., Prof. Engineering, Uni- 

 versity College. 



Arch. Geikie, F.R.S., Director, Geological Survey, 

 Scotland. 



Cornelius B. Fox, M.D., F.M.S. 



Nicholas Brady, M.A. 



Thomas Stevenson, F.R.S.E., F.G.S., M. Inst. C.E. 



Johnjellett, D.D., F.R.S. 



Thomas Pigot, Prof. Engineering, Royal College of 

 Science, Dublin. 



J. P. O'Reilly, Prof. Mineralogy and Mining, Royal 

 College of Science, Dublin. 



T. Lauder Brunton, M,D., F.R.S. 



J. E. H. Gordon. 



\V. Galloway, Prof. Chemistry, Royal College of 

 Science, Dublin. 



Henry E. Armstrong, F.R.S. 



Thomas Andrews, LL.D., F.R.S., President of the 

 British Association. 



James Thomson Bottomley, M.A., F.R.S.E. 



W. F. Donkin. 



Claude R. Conder, Lieut. R.E. 



Charles E. De Ranee, F.G.S,, H.M. Geological 

 Survey. 



Nathl. Barnaby, Chief Constructor of the Navy. 



W. Topley. 



J. Clerk Maxwell, F.R.S., Prof, of Experimental 

 Physics in University of Cambridge. 



G. G. Stokes, Sec. R.S. Lucasian Professor, Cam- 

 bridge. 



NOTES 

 The current number of the Fortnightly Review contains an 

 article by Dr. Bridges, in which he tries to prove that Harvey 

 did not discover the circulation of the blood by vivisection. 

 Harvey's owm statements are so explicit, and the methods he 

 employed have been so often expounded, that there is little new 

 to be said on the point. Harvey, as Dr. Bridges admits, dis- 

 covered the true functions of the heart, and inferred the existence 

 of the complete systemic circulation by observations on living 

 animals, interpreting the facts observed by aid of the faculty of 

 reasoning. Malpighi demonstrated the capillary part of the 

 circulation by other observations on living animals, dealing with 

 his new facts by aid of the same faculty. But to say that the 

 movements of the heart were discovered by vivisection and the 

 brains of Harvey, but the circulation of the blood ' ' by the mi- 

 croscope of Malpighi " is as absurd as to ascribe the glory of the 

 former discovery to Harvey's scalpel and that of the other to 

 Malpighi's brains. 



The following are the numbers of visitors to the Loan Collec- 

 tion of Scientific Apparatus during the week ending July 15 : — - 

 Monday, 3,464; Tuesday, 3,300; Wednesday, 602; Thursday, 

 495 ; Friday, 451 ; Saturday, 3,403 ; total, 11,715. During the 

 present week 13 demonstrations of apparatus were given on 

 Monday, 1 1 on Tuesday, 5 on Wednesday ; 6 are to be given 

 to-day, 5 on Friday, and 5 on Saturday. 



The annual meeting of the Helvetic Society of Natural 

 Sciences wiU take place at Basle, on August 20-23. Scientific 

 men of all countries are cordially invited to the meeting ; and 

 those who wish to make any communication are requested to 

 write, before August i, to Dr. H. Christ, 5, Baumleingasse, 

 Basle. 



The Scientific Societies of Belgium held their first united 

 Congress at Brussels this week, from the i6th to the i8th. The 

 following, we learn from the Society of Arts yournal, are some 

 of the subjects which have been discussed : — Greater facilities 

 for the transmission of scientific objects ; as to the opening of 

 public scientific institutions at convenient hours, and especially 

 in the evening; the organisation of libraiies and scientific collec- 

 tions in the towns and communes ; the publication of elementary 

 treatises on various branches of science ; establishment at one 

 of the littoral towns of a collection of works concerning the 

 coast ; a study of the geological formation of the district round 

 Brussels ; the part played by molluscs in nature ; the malaco- 

 logical zones of Belgium. On the i8th there was to be a scien- 

 tific excursion into the environs of Brussels. 



At a meeting of the Council of the Yorkshire College of 

 Science, held last Friday, an offer by Mr. George Salt, of 150/. 

 a year for three years as a temporary provision for a professor- 

 ship of Biology, was accepted, Mr. Salt's stipulation that Mr. 



