December 20, 1900] 



NATURE 



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901, exclusive of local committees, societies, institutions 

 and field clubs, each of which embraced a number of 

 donors, and of which there were 22, making in all a total 

 of 923 entries on the list, and of over 1000 individual 

 subscribers. The sum raised by local subscription, was 

 351/. Leeds heads the list with 54/., Calcutta fpllows 

 with 51/., the New York Academy with 50/., New 

 Zealand contributes 30/., Leicester 25/., South Aiistralia 

 21/. ; and these, with Boston, U.S.A., Bristol, Chelten- 

 ham, Chester, Chicago, Chili, Ealing, Nebraska, New 

 South Wales, New York, Paris, Servia, St. Petfers- 

 burg, Upsala, Warrington, and Washington, embrace 

 the chief colonies and centres in this way repre- 

 sented, together with the National Sunday League 

 and the students of the Royal College of Science. 

 The list includes the names of individuals resident 

 in extreme latitudes and on the opposite sides of the 

 globe, the sums contributed ranging from 100/. to half-a- 

 crown. 



The Executive Committee (of which we published a 

 list in Nature, vol. liii. p. 186) held twelve meetings, 

 under the chairmanship of Lord Shand, and duly 

 appointed sub-committees of their number for the 

 carrying out of details. Of the subscribers, 48 died 

 during the interval of payment and publication of the 

 list, and of the executive, two — viz.. Sir E. Frankland 

 and Sir W. Flower, passed away before the completion 

 of their task. Four members did not attend a meeting 

 at all. 



Concerning the statue, it may be placed on record 

 that the late Prof Max Muller early expressed in 

 writing the desire that Huxley and Tyndall should be 

 memorialised together, as are Goethe and Schiller at 

 Weimar. 



The medal, which we have not before described, bears 

 on the obverse a profile portrait, with name in full and 

 dates of birth and death ; on the reverse a female figure 

 with a lighted lamp in the left hand, and a laurel wreath 

 in right, which she is about to deposit on an altar bearing 

 the word EIIISTHMH^ the whole backed by the fore- 

 shortened faqade of the Royal College of Science. The 

 designs for the medal were obtained by prize competition, 

 and of the sixty-two persons who applied thirty-four com- 

 peted. The premiated designs were twice the diameter 

 of the dies (viz. 5 inches), and silver replicas of them, 

 presented to the Royal College of Science, hang in 

 Huxley's work-room, now a research laboratory bearing 

 his name, beneath his portrait by Legros, and sur- 

 rounded by personal relics and his working scientific 

 library and effects, in themselves second to no memorial 

 to his labours. 



Specimen copies of the medal have been presented to 

 Mrs. Huxley, to the British and South Kensington 

 Museums, and, conjointly with. an enlarged copy of the 

 obverse, to the Royal Society,; for their respective col- 

 lections. By purchase at the cost of production, there 

 have been acquired two sets of impressions by continental 

 museums, and copies of the obverse in various sizes, to 

 the number of thirty-six, by subscribers to the fund in 

 many parts of the world. 



Among the proposals for the once contemplated third 

 object of memorial, of which the amount subscribed did 

 not admit, there were submitted in writing suggestions 

 for a Studentship (i) at the Royal College of Science ; 

 (2) at the Zoological Gardens, in recognition of Huxley's 

 services to the Society, and of his connection with the 

 foundation of its Prosectorship ; for (3) a Scholarship at 

 one of the Universities, to be open to all boys of the 

 United Kingdom, and under the control of the Royal 

 College of Surgeons (with an offer of 50/. if acted 

 upon) ; for a Professorship (4) of Anthropology, 

 and (5) of Hygiene ; and (6) for a silver medal to 

 the size of the original design for award by the Royal 

 Society. 



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NOTE'S. , 



The following have been nominated presidents of sections for 

 the Glasgow meeting of the British Association, September 

 11-18, 1901 : A (Mathematical and Physical Science), Major 

 P. A. MacMahoji, F.R.S. ; B. (Chemistry), Prof. P^rcy Frank- 

 land, F.R.S. ; C (Geology), Mr. John Home, F.R^iS. ; D 

 (Zoology), Prof; J. Cossar Ewarj:, F;R.5.;"; E (Geography), 

 Dr. ;H. R. Mill; F (Statistics and EcQhpmic Science), Sir 

 Robert Giffen, K.C.B., F.R S. ; G (Engin€ering),.'Mr.- R. E. 

 Crompton ; H (AnthropologyV Prof, D, J.. Cunningham,, F.R.S. ; 

 L(Physiology), Prof. J. G. Mc,Kendrick,,F.R.S. ; K (Botany), 

 Prof. L Bajley-Balfour, F.R..S.; . ,. ;, ., . .',,/' , 



In accordance with a resolution which was passed by the 

 General Committee qf the British Association at the annual 

 meeting held last September at Bradford, the Council of the 

 Association. have recently considered the advisability of estab- 

 lishing a separate section for education. We are infornied that 

 the Council have decided that a section of educational science 

 shall be established, but that the section shall not necessarily 

 meet each year. The first meeting of the section will be held at 

 the Glasgow meeting, which will commence on September 11, 

 1901. :• . ',,:•■ .": v j: ..' .... . _ ...:•:'■. ■• 



For the purposes of a National Physical Laboratory, the 

 Queen has granted to the Royal Society Bushey House, Bushey 

 Park, which was formerly occupied by the Due de Nemours. 



The Linnean Society has undertaken the collection of title- 

 slips for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland as 

 regards botany for the International Catalogue of Scientific 

 Literature. All botanists are asked to support the endeavour to 

 compile a complete record. Societies and other publishing 

 bodies are requested to help by sending their issues as soon as 

 possible after publication, either by gift, :loan or . exchange, so 

 as to co-operate in producing a yearly record of botanic litera- 

 ture throughout the world. Communications for the catalogue 

 should be addressed to Mr. B. Daydon Jackson, Linnean 

 Society, Burlington House, London, W. Other scientific 

 societies will, we presume, render similar assistance to the work 

 of the International Council. 



A FEW weeks ago the new anthropolo^c^l collections in the 

 American Museum of Natural History in New York were 

 opened to the public, and these valuable collections now occupy 

 five halls, and others are being provided. We learn from our 

 contemporary, Science, that the accessions to the anthropological 

 collections of the museum obtained during the last three years 

 have largely been due to extended scientific research undertaken 

 by the institution. In this respect the methods of the American 

 Museum of Natural History differ considerably from those pur- 

 sued by a number of other institutions. It has not been the 

 policy of the museum to accumulate rapidly and indiscriminate ly 

 more or less valuable specimens collected on trading expeditions 

 or purchased from dealers ; but an endeavour has been made to 

 build up representative collections and to obtain, at the same 

 time, the fullest and most detailed information in regard to 

 specimens, so that each addition to the exhibit of the museum 

 can be made thoroughly instructive and will represent a 

 material contribution to science. There is no doubt this is the 

 best way to build up a museum, and it is to be deplored that 

 the various museums of the British Islands do not follow the 

 example so worthily set by this and other American museums. 

 Our English method is rather to wait like a spider in its web in 

 the hope that something will eventually be caught ; in the 

 meanwhile, other institutions are -intelligently collecting whole- 

 sale in diverse interesting regions, while we are content with 

 occasional specimens which usually have no history, or at most 

 a very imperfect one, and for these we often have to pay a stiff 

 profit to a dealer. 



