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bacilli, and indicates that the prevention and cure are to^ 

 be effected by removal of conditions favourable to their- 

 life and development. Mortar should be mixed with 

 germicides, as coal-tar, sulphate of copper, &c., and where 

 disease of the walls exist, the cure should be effected by; 

 inoculation of the walls with anti-nitrifying bacilli. 



NOTES. \ 



The Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers have made 

 the following awards for papers read and discussed before the 

 Institution during the past session: — Watt medals and pre- 

 miums to Prof. H. L. Callendar, F.R.S., and Mr. J. T. 

 Nicolson ; a Telford medal and premium to Mr. A. H. Preece ; 

 George Stephenson medals and premiums to Messrs. Whately 

 Eliot and W. O. E. Meade-King; a Crampton prize to Mr. 

 E. W. Anderson ; Telford premiums to Messrs. L. B. Atkinson, 

 Henry Fowler, and W. L. Strange. The presentation of these 

 awards, together with those for papers which have not been 

 subject to discussion and will be announced later, will take place 

 at the inaugural meeting of the next session. 



The Reception Committee of the Fourth International Con- 

 gress of Zoology have issued a circular containing particulars 

 with regard to lodgings and other accommodation at Cambridge 

 during the meeting in August next, and giving information as to 

 the railway fares from various parts of the Continent, and other 

 arrangements for the Congress. The circular is accompanied by 

 a reply-form, to be filled up and returned to the Secretaries by 

 any member of the Congress who wishes rooms to be taken for 

 him. These circulars have been sent to all who have already 

 informed the Reception Committee that they hope to be present 

 at the meeting, and will be sent to other zoologists on applica- 

 tion to the Secretaries of the Reception Committee, The 

 Museums, Cambridge. 



The Select Committee appointed to inquire into and report 

 upon the administration and cost of the Museums of the Science 

 and Art Department have agreed to the following preliminary 

 report : — Since the issue of the report of the Museums of the 

 Science and Art Department Committee in July 1897, your 

 Committee have continued the inquiry, but reserve for a further 

 report the publication of additional evidence with their final 

 review and recommendations. They feel, however, bound to 

 report without delay certain conclusions at which they have 

 arrived, on consideration of the evidence, as regards the South 

 Kensington Museum and the Geological Museum in Jermyn 

 Street. They are unanimously of opinion that with a view to 

 present efficient management, to economy of administration, to 

 future development of the collections, and to their full use for 

 the purpose of exhibition and of instruction, it is necessary — 

 (i) That the whole area on the east side of Exhibition Road 

 (except that occupied by the Royal College of Science, which 

 cannot be sacrificed except at great cost) be exclusively devoted 

 to the Art Museum and the Art Library, with provision for the 

 conduct of the business connected with Loans of Art Objects, 

 and the Art Schools. They are satisfied that the whole of this 

 space is required for the Art Schools, the due exhibition of the 

 Art Collections, and the administration connected with such a 

 museum. (2) That provision for the whole of the Science 

 Collection, the Science Library, for Loans of Scientific Objects, 

 and for the Science Schools be made on the west side of the 

 Exhibition Road. They are convinced that this concentration 

 of Art on one side of the road and of Science on the other is 

 essential to good administration, to satisfactory results from the 

 money expended, and efficiency both in the museum and in the 

 schools. This arrangement would allow space for the future 

 development both of the Art and of the Science branches. 

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They also unanimously recommend that the Geological Museum 

 in Jermyn Street be no longer occupied for the same purposes 

 as now ; and that the collections there exhibited be removed to 

 the west side of Exhibition Road, and made part of the Science 

 collections. 



The address of the British Institute of Preventive Medicine 

 is now Grosvenor Road, London, S.W., instead of Great Russell 

 Street, London, W.C. 



The death is announced of M. Deniontzey, Correspondant of 

 the Section of Rural Pkonomy of the Paris Academy of 

 Sciences. 



We regret to notice the announcement of the death of Dr. 

 Samuel Gordon, president of the Royal Academy of Medicine 

 in Ireland, and successor to the late Dr. Haughton as president 

 of the Royal Zoological Society, Dublin. 



At the Royal Institution on Thursday, May 12, Lord Ray- 

 leigh will deliver the first of a course of three lectures on " Heat," 

 and on Saturday, May 21, Mr. J. Arthur Thomson will begin 

 a course of two lectures on " The Biology of Spring." The 

 Friday evening discourse to-morrow is by Mr, E. A. Minchin, 

 whose subject is " Living Crystals." 



The death is announced of Dr. Karl Ludwig Fridolin von 

 Sandberger, who until recently was Professor of Mineralogy andi 

 Geology in the University of Wiirzburg, and Director of the Mine- 

 ralogisches Institut. Although known for his many important con- 

 tributions to mineralogical science, to the study of ore deposits 

 and to the microscopic structure of eruptive rocks, he was like- 

 wise distinguished for his researches on the fossil MoUusca of 

 various formations in the Rhenish provinces and other parts of 

 Germany. His published works date back to 1847. During 

 the years 1850-56 he issued, in conjunction with his brother 

 Dr. Guido Sandberger, " Die Versteinerungen des rheinischen 

 Schichten-systems in Nassau" — a work remarkable for the 

 beauty of its illustrations and the fidelity of its descriptions, and 

 one which was honoured by the award of the Wollaston Fund,, 

 which was given to the authors by the Council of the Geological 

 Society in 1855. In 1863 Dr. Fridolin Sandberger published 

 "Die Conchylien des Mainzer Tertiiirbeckens " ; in 1870-75 he 

 issued, m two volumes, " Die Land-und Siisswasser-Conchylien 

 derVorwelt"; and in 1882-5," Untersuchungen liber Erzgange,"^ 

 an authoritative work on the subject of mineral veins. In the 

 course of his long labours he turned his attention to the Mol- 

 lusca of many different formations, from those of Devonian age 

 to those of Pliocene and Pleistocene deposits. In later years his 

 work became more concentrated on mineralogical science. In 

 1875- he was elected a Foreign Member of the Geological 

 Society of London. He was born in 1826, and died at Wiirz- 

 burg on April 11. 



Mr. W. J. Lewis Abbott sends us the following particulars 

 concerning the career of Mr. Henry Lewis, who died on April 

 10, at the age of sixty-four : — Though apprenticed to a boot- 

 maker, throughout his early life Lewis spent much of his time 

 in the pursuit of natural history subjects, and thirty years aga 

 was led to the subject of flint implements, and forthwith became 

 one of the most ardent collectors. For many years weekly 

 visits were made to pits in the Thames Valley, in each of which 

 he set workmen hunting. He also successfully worked the 

 Botany Bay section, securing much more material than Skertch- 

 ley, consisting of worked flakes as well as finished implements. 

 His next work was upon the plateau, where he secured valuable 

 spoil. For the last ten years he visited the glacial and pre- 

 glacial deposits in search of worked flints and implements, 

 glacially striated and otherwise, and accumulated a mass of 

 material at present undescribed. His late Celtic discoveries at 



