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[August 2, 1894 



visit of the Geologists' Association to Ireland did much 

 to direct atter.tion to the geological features, as well as 

 to the scenic beauties, of the eastern coast ; it may be 

 hoped that Mr. Welch's photographic series will form an 



The sixty-second annual meeting of the Brili&h Medical 

 Association is taking place at Bristol under the presidency of 

 Dr. E. Long Fox, who delivered his presidential address at 

 the evening meeting of Tuesday last. 



KtG. 3 — Pot-Holc C.\ 



--'.^. .^^andslone, Glcnariff. 



NOTES. 



We are pleased to learn that Prof. Prestwich, F. R.S., has 

 been made Foreign Nfember of the R. Accademia dei Lyncei, 

 Koine, for geology and palseontology. 



We regret lo hear of the death, from typhoid fever, of Prof. 

 t;. H. Williams, of lialtimore. The United .Slates has of late 

 yean produced a band of admirable petrographers, amongst 

 whom Prof. Williams has long held a foremost place. His 

 early death will be lamented by a large circle o( friends in 

 Earope. 



We are sorry to have lo record the death, at the age of sixly- 

 tix, of the Rev. Edward Male, who had been for some years the 

 -enior icieoce roaster of Eton College. Mr. Hale died on 

 July 25. 



The annual meeting of the Instilutioo of Mechanical En- 

 gineers wai opened at Manchester on July 31, and is proceed- 

 ing. Prof. Kennedy is presiding. 



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inlroduction and an inducement to another visit, this The British Pharmaceutical Conference began its annual 



time to the fascinating variety of igneous rocks and meeting at Oxford on Tuesday, July 31, whin Mr. N. II. 



Mesozoic strata in the north. Martin, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, look the chair, and delivered an 



GRF.NVILI.E a. J. Cole. address. 



The autumn meeting of the Iron and .Steel Institute of 

 Great Britain, which this year lakes place .at Brussels, from 

 August 20 to 24, will probably be very well altended, about 

 500 members having already intimated their intention of being 

 present. The arrangements for the meeting are being organ- 

 ised by an influenlial local reception committee, of which M. 

 Gilloii, president of the Society of Engineers of Lioge, is chair- 

 man, in conjunction with the general secretary of the Inslitule, 

 Mr. Bennett H. Brough. During the meeting, excursions will 

 be made lo the Antwerp Exhibition, the Mariemont Collieries, 

 the Couillet Steel Works at Charleroi, the works of the 

 Cockerill Company at Seraing, and the Angleur Slcel Works 

 at Liege. The prcigramme of papers to be rc.i<l and discussed 

 is a long one, there being no less a number than l»n ariangcd 

 for. The first on the list is, " On the Use of Caustic Lime in 

 the Blast Furnace," by Sir Lowthian Bell. Other papers are 

 to be contributed by Messrs. R. A. Iladfield, T. W. Hogg, 

 11. C. Jenkins, W. G. M'Millan, John Parry, and D. Selby- 

 Biggc, respectively, ami there are to be two papers of local in- 

 terest, wrillen by Belgian engineers. Their lilies are, "On 

 the Coal-Mining Industry of Belgium," by M. Briarl, President 



