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NATURE 



[May I, 1890 



David Sharp, M.B., CM. (Edin.), 



President of the Entomological - Society of London. Hon. 

 Memb. Inst. New Zealand, &c. Distinguished as an Entomo- 

 logist, especially for his knowledge of the order Coleoptera, 

 many of the more intricate groups of which he has studied with 

 reference to their structure, classification, geographical distribu- 

 tion, &c. ; is attached to Science, and anxious to promote its 

 progress. Author of the following memoirs : — '• On Aquatic 

 CarnivOTOus Coleoptera or Dytiscidse," forming Vol. II. (Ser, 2) 

 oftheScient. Trans. Roy. Dubl. Soc, 1879-82; " Memoirs on 

 the Coleoptera of New Zealand" (j(5jV/., 1886); and, with the 

 Rev. T. Blackburn, " Memoirs on the Coleoptera of the 

 Hawaiian Islands" [ibid., 1885); besides upwards of one 

 hundred minor contributions to the Transactions of various 

 Societies in England and on the Continent. Has also just 

 completed a memoir on the Dytiscidse, Staphilinidae, &c., of 

 Mexico and Central America, being Coleoptera, Vol. I., Part 2, 

 of Messrs. Godman and Salvin's " Biologia Centrali-Ameri- 

 cana " (pp. 824, pis. 19), and is now engaged in studying the 

 Clavicornia and Rhynchophora for the same work. Since 1885 

 he has written the whole of the Insecta (except the Neuroptera) 

 for the Zoological Record. 



J. J. Harris Teall, M.A., 



F.G.S. Has taken a leading place among the petrographical 

 geologists of this country, having enriched the literature of the 

 science with important original contributions. Among these, 

 special mention may be made of the following : — " The Patton 

 and Wicken Phosphatic Deposit " (Sedgwick Prize Essay, 1875) '• 

 *' Petrological Notes on some North of England Dykes " {Quart. 

 Journ. Geol. Soc, 1884, p. 209); "On the Chemical and 

 Microscopical Characters of the Whin Sill " (op. cit., p. 640) ; 

 "The Metamorphism of Dolerite into Hornblende-schist" {op. 

 cit., 1885, p. 133); "The Lizard Gahhxos" {Geol. Mag., 1886, 

 p. 481) ; "On the Origin of certain Banded Gneisses" {op. cit., 

 1887, p. 484). In 1888 he published a valuable treatise on 

 " British Petrography," containing the results of much original 

 research, and presenting for the first time a general review of 

 the microscopic characters of all known British rocks. In the 

 same year he was appointed to the Geological Survey, where he 

 is specially charged with the investigation of the petrography of 

 the crystalline schists. 



Richard Thorne Thorne, M.B. (Lond.), 



F.R.C.P. Assistant Medical Officer to H.M, Local Govern- 

 ment Board. Has made numerous original observations in 

 regard to the spread of disease, and especially on an epidemic 

 of typhoid fever, and its dissemination by water at Caterham 

 and Redhill. Author of " The Use and Influence of Hospitals 

 for Infectious Diseases " (Proc. of the Internat. Sanit. Confer- 

 ence at Rome) ; and of a large number of Reports on Public 

 Health to the Privy Council and Local Government Board. 

 He was appointed along with Sir W. G. Hunter to represent 

 Great Britain at the International Sanitary Conference of Rome, 

 1885. Is distinguished for his acquaintance with Sanitary 

 Science, as shown by his being President of the Epidemiological 

 Society, Lecturer on Public Health at St. Bartholomew's Hos- 

 pital, Examiner in Public Health to the University of Oxford, 

 the University of London, and the English Conjoined Board. 



Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, M.A., 



Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. University Lecturer 

 on the Advanced Morphology of Invertebrates in the University 

 of Cambridge. Author of : (in the Quart, yourn. Micros, Sci. , 

 1883-88) "Note on the Early Development oiLacerta muralis " ; 

 *' On the Head-kidney ol Bdellostoma" ; "On the Supra-renal 

 Bodies of Vertebrata" ; " Binop/nlus gigas" ; " JIaplodiscus 

 piger" ; (in the Proc. Zool. Soc, 1884) "On some Points in 

 the Anatomy of Phcenicoplerus and its Allies " ; " Note on the 

 Placentation of Tetraceros quadricornis" ; " Notes on Callithrix 

 gigot" ; (in the Proc. Roy. Soc.) "Note on the Development 

 of the Supra-renal Bodies of Vertebrates " ; " Preliminary Note 

 on a Balanoglossus Larva from the Bahamas " ; Note on the 

 last paper ; and a Report of Investigations into the Crustacean 

 Fauna of Plymouth Sound, carried on in the laboratory of the 

 Marine Biol. Assoc, in accordance with instructions from a 

 Committee appointed by the Royal Society. 



NOTES. 



M. Eugene Peligot, the eminent French chemist, died at 

 Paris on April 15. He was born on March 24, 181 1. In 1832 

 he was admitted to the laboratory of J. B. Dumas, and three 

 years afterwards he became Professor of Chemistry at the 6cole 

 Centrale. In 1846 he succeeded Clement Desormes at the Con- 

 servatoire des Arts et Metiers ; and here, until recently, he con- 

 tinued to deliver courses of lectures on general chemistry. He 

 also lectured at the National Agricultural Institute on analytical 

 chemistry applied to agriculture. For more than 40 years he 

 was connected with the French Mint, and at the Hotel des 

 Monnaies he lived and died. M. Peligot was elected a member 

 of the Paris Academy of Sciences in 1852, and in 1885 he 

 received the dignity of a Grand Officer of the Legion of 

 Honour. 



The death of Dr. F. Soltwedel, Director of the Botanical 

 Station at Semarang, in Java, is announced. He was a very 

 energetic botanist, especially in the direction of applied botany. 



We learn from the Botanisches Centralblatt that Mr. Thomas 

 Hanbury, of Mortola, near Mentone, has offered to defray the 

 expense of the erection of a building in the Botanic Garden at 

 Genoa, to provide a laboratory, lecture-rooms, and space for 

 botanical collections. The building is to become the property 

 of the University of Genoa, and will be erected under the direc- 

 tion of Prof. Penzig, the Director of the Botanic Garden ; and 

 it is hoped that it will be completed by the time of the Inter- 

 national Botanical and Geographical Congress to be held in 

 Genoa at the time of the great Columbus Festival in 1892. It 

 is intended that the new Institute shall bear the name of the 

 " Hanbury Botanical Institute." 



During his visit to the Canaries, in 1889, made for the pur- 

 pose of taking observations on the atmospheric absorption of 

 the solar spectrum, Prof. O. Simony, of Vienna, landed upon 

 the lonely rock of Zalmo, near the Island of Ferro, and dis- 

 covered a very curious lizard, which was subsequently described 

 by Prof. Steindachner {Anz. k. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1889, p. 260) 

 as Lacerta sifiionyi. At the request of Lord Lilford, Canon 

 Tristram has also recently visited the same spot, and obtained 

 some examples of this lizard, which Lord Lilford has presented 

 to the Zoological Society's collection. Simony's Lizard is a fine 

 large species, very dark in colour, but obviously allied to the 

 well-known Lacerta ocellata of Southern Europe. 



The fifth of the series of photographic exhibitions at the 

 Camera Club, will be open for private and press view on 

 Monday, May 5, at 8 p.m., and on and after Tuesday, May 6, 

 it will be open to visitors on presentation of card. It will con- 

 sist of photographs by the late Mrs. Julia Cameron. 



The fFrench Exhibition, which is about to be opened at 

 Earl's I Court, will illustrate the arts, inventions, products, 

 and resources of France and her colonies, and will, it is said, 

 include many of the best objects shown at the Paris Exhibition 

 of last year. 



An archasological museum has been established in connection 

 with the University of Pennsylvania. Science says it contains— 

 in addition to the American specimens — a fine collection of 

 flints,{bronze implements, and pottery from Europe, as well as 

 objects from' Asia, Africa, and the South Sea Islands. At the 

 same University a museum of economic botany is about to be 

 formed. It will consist of all kinds of woods, vegetable fibres, 

 grains and drugs, arranged so as to illustrate the processes of 

 manufacture from the raw product, and the various uses to 

 which each material may be put. 



