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intellectual world. Men will arise who, like him, will 

 advance and extend scientific knowledge by research and 

 exposition, but rarely will the qualities of the investigator 

 and interpreter be combined with a more charming 

 personality. 



The funeral has been fixed to take place at Marylebone 

 Cemetery this afternoon, at 2.30 o'clock. 



NOTES. 



Among the honours which Lord Roseliery recommended on 

 leaving otiice, and which the Queen has approved, we notice 

 that Dr. Robert Cliffen, C. B. , whose work in various departments 

 of statistical science will be known to our readers, has become 

 K.C.B., and that I'rof J. \V. Judd has been appointed C.B. 

 Mr. James Blyth, the well-known agriculturist, has received a 

 baronetcy, Colonel V. D. Majendie, C.B. , has been promoted 

 to K.C. H. , and Captain Lugard has been appointed C.B. 



Thk International Meteorological Committee, at its last 

 meeting at Upsala, in August 1894, recommended that an 

 International Conference of the same character as that of .Munich 

 in 1S91, should be held at Paris about the middle of September, 

 probably September 15, 1896. A circular has just been distributed 

 among meteorologists, announcing that ^L Mascart has under- 

 taken to make the arrangements necessary for the meetings 

 of the conference. Mr. K. H. Scott will be glad to receive, 

 at the .Meteorological Office, notes on any questions suitable for 

 insertion in the programme for the conference. It is proposed 

 that the definitive programme .shall be prepared before the end 

 of the present year 1895, in order to give meteorologists 

 interested in the subjects proposed for discussion, time to 

 formulate their views thereon. 



TftE death is announced of Prof D. Kirkwood, for many 

 years Professor of Mathematics in Indiana .State University, 

 and known for his investigations of the orbits of planets and 

 comets. 



An influential committee has been formed in Paris, to collect 

 fimds for the erection of a monument to Francis Gamier, the 

 explorer. The Treasurer of the Committee is M. J. Ruetf, 

 43 rue Taitbout, Paris. 



Proi'. Fl'CHS has been elected a Correspondant of the Paris 

 .\cademy of Sciences, in the Section of Geometry ; Dr. Xansen 

 has been elected a Correspondant of the Section of Geography 

 and Navigation, and Dr. Laveran a Correspondant of the Section 

 of Medicine and Surgery. 



Prok. V\ii.|) has formally announced the resignation of his 

 office at St. Petersburg as from September 13. His future 

 residence will be at Zurich, and he requests that papers and 

 books hitherto addressed to him at St. Petersburg, should be 

 sent to his new address. 



The subject of the essays for the Howard Medal of the 

 Royal Statistical Society, to be awarded in 1896, with £zo as 

 heretofore, js " School Hygiene, in its Mental, Moral, and 

 I'hysical Aspects." Kssays should be sent in on or before June 

 30, 1896. 



Prof. C. Ij.ovd Morg.\n has accepted an invitation to 

 deliver four lectures in the Columbia University Biological 

 Course next winter. His subject will be "Some Habits and 

 iTistincts of Birds." Mr. Frank M. Chapman, of the American 

 Museum of Natural History, will also give four lectures upon 

 birds, from the zoologist's standpoint. 



The American Museum Expedition of 1S95 has already com- 

 pleted the exploration of the linta basin fossil fauna, and 

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established the fact that, like the Phosphorites of France, it is 

 completely transitional between the Focene and Miocene. The 

 ])arty is now passing north to explore Brown's Park on the 

 eastern base of the Uinta .Mountains, an ancient lake basin which 

 has been long known but hitherto unexplored for fo.ssils. 



The Fxecutive of the Midland Union of Naturalists at their 

 annual meeting, held on Monday last at Oxford, awarded to 

 Mr. Walter E. Collinge, .\s.sistant-Lecturer in Zoology and 

 Comparative Anatomy, -Mason College, Binningham, the 

 "Darwin Medal" for his recent researches on the cranial 

 nerves and sensory canal system of fishes. 



Mr. George S. Davis, who, .since Januar)' 1885, has at a 

 very hea\'y loss maintained the " Index Medicus,' announces 

 he will be obliged to discontinue that very useful publication, 

 owing to insufficient support. It would hardly be to the credit 

 of medical societies, and .scientific workers generally, if this 

 indis|)ensable monthly index is allowed to come to an end for 

 want of .something like ;f400 a year. 



The fortieth annual exhibition of the Royal Photographic 

 Society will be inaugurated on Saturday, September 28, by a 

 private view, followed in the evening by a conversazione. The 

 exhibition will remain open daily (Sundays excepted) from 

 .September 30 until November 14. Medals will be placed at the 

 disposal of judges for the artistic, scientific, and technical excel- 

 lence of photographs, lantern slides, and transparencies, and for 

 apparatus. The judges for the technical section are Captain W. 

 de W. Abney, Mr. Chapman Jones, and .Mr. Andrew Pringle. 



A.N International Exhibition of Hygiene, organised under the 

 direction of M. Brouardel, was opened at Paris on Thursday 

 last. The exhibits are divided into five groups, referring 

 respectively to (i) the hygiene of private houses; (2) city 

 hygiene; {3) the prophylactics of zymotic diseases, demography, 

 .sanitary statistics, &c. ; (4) the hygiene of childhood, including 

 alimentary hygiene, questions of clothing, and physical exercises ; 

 (5) industrial and professional hygiene. 



The Weekly Weather Report of the 29th uU. shows that the 

 rainfall for the first half of this year is much below the average 

 in all districts except the north-east of England. The deficiency 

 varies from 2'5 inches in the east of Scotland, to 5 inches in 

 the south-west of England, but in the west of Scotland the 

 deficiency amounts to 12 inches. Some heavy amounts have, 

 however, been measured recently ; at Churchstoke, Mont- 

 gomery, the abnormally large fall of 4^83 inches was recorded 

 on the 26th ult. 



A FEW days ago, the Lord Mayor of Liverpool, on behalf i>f 

 the Museum Committee of the Corporation (of which Sir 

 William B. P"orwood is chairman), opened in the Public Museum, 

 in presence of a numerous assembly, a large new gallery ex- 

 clusively devoted to ethnography. .\n interesting account of 

 the origin and history of the collection, and of the method of 

 its arrangement, was given by Dr. H. O. Forbes, the Director 

 of Museums. The African, Papuan, and New Zealand sections 

 are especially rich, while those of Mexico, Peru, and Patagonia 

 contain some very rare exhibits of exceptional value. 



At the annual general meeting of the Society of .\rts, the 

 following gentlemen were elected \ice-Presidents : — Sir Edward 

 Birkbeck, Mr. B. Francis Cobb, the Hon. Sir Charles W. 

 Fremantle, Sir Douglas Galton, and Prof W. C. Roberts- 

 .Vusten. To fill the places vacated by retiring members of 

 Council, there were elected, at the same meeting, .Sir Steuart 

 Colvin Bayley, M.ajor-General Sir Owen Tudor Burne, Mr. R. 

 Brudenell Carter, and Dr. Francis Elgar. Sir Frederick 

 lirannvell was elected Treasurer of the Society. 



