May 22, 1879] 



NATURE 



xxix 



DIARY OF SOCIETIES. 



London 



THURSDAY, May 21. 

 Zoological Society, at 5. — Tails : Prof. Mivart. 

 Royal Institution, at 3.— Dissociation : Prof Dewar. 

 Society of Arts, at 8. — ^Alizarine : Prof. Per kin. 



FRIDAY, May 23. 



Royal Institution, at 9.— Multiple Telegraphy: W. H. Preece. 



QUBKETT Microscopical Club, at 8.— On some Improvements in Micro- 

 scopical Turn-Tables : C. Spencer Rolfe.— On Stained Sections of Animal 

 Tissues and how tJ Prepare them : J. W. Groves. 



Society of Arts, at 8.— The Harbour of Kurachee : W. J. Price. 



SATURDAY, Mav 24. 

 Royal Institution, at 3. — Swift : Prof. H. Morley. 

 Physical Society, at 3. — On a New Harmonograph : W. J. Wilson. — On 



a New Induction Balance ; Prof. Hughes. 

 Linnean Society, at 3.— Anniversary Meeting and President's Address. 



MONDAY, May a6. 

 Royal Geographical Society, at i. — Anniversary. 

 Geologists* AssociatioiI'. — Excursion to Knockhult and Sevenoaks. 

 Royal Institution, at 3.— German Literature : Prof. Hillebrand. 



TUESDAY, U\v 27. 



Royal Institution, at 3. — Suggestions to Students and Readers of His- 

 tory : Prof. J. R. Seeley. 



Anthropological Institute, at 8.— Notes on Fetichism: Hodder M. 

 Wcstropp.— Letters to Prof. Max MuUer on the Kabi Dialect of Queens- 

 land ; John Matthew. 



West London Scientific Association, at 8. . ., _ 



Horticultural Society. — Great Summer Show. — Scientific Committee 

 at I. 



Metropolitan Scientific Association, at 7. . 



Society of Arts, at 8.— Civilisation and Barbarism in Africa : Edward 

 Hutchinson. 



WEDNESDAY, May 28. 



Geological Society, at 8.— On the Endothiodont Reptllia, with Evidence 

 of the Species Endothiodoti uniseries, Owen: Prof. R. Owen, F.R.S. — 

 Note on Eucmmerotus. Hulke, = Omitlwpsis, Seeley, ^BotliriosMn- 

 dytus, Owen, = Ckottdrastcalosaurus, Owen: J. W. Hulke, F.R.b.— 

 Description of the Species of the Ostracodous Genus Bairdia, M'Coy, 

 from the Carboniferous Strata of Great Britain: Prof. T. Rupert Jones, 

 F.R.S., and James W. Kirby.— Report on a Collection of Fossils from 

 the Bowen River Coal-field and the Limestone of the Fanning River, 

 North Queensland: R. Etheridge. Tun.— On a Fossil SquUla from the 

 London Clay of Highgate, part of the Wetherell Collection in the British 

 Museum: Dr. Henry Woodward, F. R.S.— On NecrosMla. [Vihom.a. 

 Supposed Stomatopod Crustacean irom the Middle Coal-measures, Cossall, 

 near Ilkeston, Derbyshire: Dr. Henry Woodward, F.R.S.— On the Dis- 

 covery of a Fossil .S"yw/V/rt in the Cretaceous Deposits of Hdkel, in the 

 Lebanon, Syria: Dr. Henry Woodward, F.R.S.— On the Occurrence of 

 a Fossil King Crab (Limuliis) in Cretaceous Formation of the Lebanon 

 Syria: Dr. Henry Woodward, F.R.S. 



HoRTicuLTt;RAL SOCIETY. — Great Summer Show. 



THURSDAY May 29. 



Royal Society, at 8.30. — On the Conduction of Heat in Ellipsoids of 

 Revolution : Ptof. C. Niven. — On a New Method of Investigating the 

 Magnetic Lines of Force in Magnets, demonstrating the Obliquity of the 

 Equator and Axis of Bar-Magnets : Dr. Shettle. — Preliminary Report to 

 the Committee on Solar Physics on a Method of detecting the Unknown 

 Inetiualities of a Series of Observations : Professors B. Stewart and 

 W. Dodgson. 



Zoot/ioiCAL Gardens, at 5. — Parrots:^ P. L. Sclater. 



Royal Institution, at 3, — Dissociation : Prof. Dewar. 



Horticultural Society. — Great Summer Show. 



FRIDAY, May 30. 

 Royal Institution, at 9. — Colour-Sense in Insects : Grant Allen. 

 Horticultural Society. — Great Summer Show. 

 SATURDAY, May 31. 

 Royal Institution, at 3.— Swift: Prof. Morley. 



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