Nov. 2, 1871J 



NATURE 



the deep-water Lamellibranchiata : — Pecta grcenlan- 

 dicus of Chemnitz, but not of Sowerby ; * Area 

 j>ectunculoidcs Scacchi ; Yoldia Incida Loven ; Y. 

 frigida* Torell ; Nccera arctica* Sars ; A', obesa* 

 Loven. Among the novelties in the Gasteropoda of the 

 same zoneare thesubjoined : — Dcntaliiim abyssonim Sars ; 

 Siphonodciifalium vitreitDi Sars ; Eidima stcnostcma 

 Jeffreys ; Bt-la Trcvdyana;'^ Chrysodomus {Siphd) SarsiiJ* 

 Three Brachiopods occur in the Gulf, of which Rliyncho- 

 ncUapsilliacca and Tercbratella Spifzbergensis are found 

 in about 20 — 50 fathoms, and Tercbratula scpt^ntrionatis 

 in from 100—250. A few rare shells were obtained in 

 comparatively shallow water ; among them an undescribed 

 TeUina (of the section Macomd), a new Odostotnia, and 

 Chrysodomus {Slp/dio) Spi^zbcrgcnsis* Reeve. Nor were 

 even the Vertebrata unrepresented ; from a depth of 96 

 fathoms off Trinity Bay, a young living example of the 

 Norway " Haddock " {Sc-bastcs Non'igicus) was brought 

 up in the dredge. And off Charleton Point, Anticosti, in 

 112 fathoms, on a stony bottom, two small fishes were 

 also taken; one, a juvenile wolf-fish {Anarrhicas lupus) 

 the other a small gurnard, a species of Agonus, probably 

 A. hexagon us Schneid. 



The similarity of the deep-sea fauna of the St. Lawrence 

 to that of the quaternary deposits of Norway, as described 

 by the late Dr. Sars, is somewhat noticeable. Pcnnatulce, 

 Opiiiura Sarsii, Ctenodiscus crispatus, several Mollusca, 

 &c., are common to both ; but on the other hand, the ab- 

 sence of so many characteristic European invertebrates on 

 the American side of the Atlantic should be taken into 

 consideration. The resemblance between the recent 

 fauna of the deeper parts of the St. Lawrence, and that of 

 the Post-pliocene deposits of Canada, does not seem very 

 close, but our knowledge of each is so limited that any 

 generalisations would be premature. 



J. F. Whiteaves 



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THE REDE LECTURE AT CAMBRIDGE 



iNE of the indirect results of university reform has 

 been the establishing at Cambridge of the Rede 

 Lecture, one of the highest intellectual treats of the 

 whole year, as will at once be acknowledged when 

 the names of the distinguished persons who have de- 

 livered it since its establishment in 1S5S are known 

 —viz., Professors Owen, Phillips, Max Miiller, Willis, 

 Ansted, Airy, Tyndall, Miller, Ruskin, Huggins, General 

 Sabine, Sir W. Thomson, and Mr. Norman Lockyer. 

 For many years past there had been certain lecturers 

 at various colleges, whose duty it was to deliver lec- 

 tures on mathematics, philosophy, rhetoric, and logic ; 

 but in 185S the endowments for these lectures (originally 

 given in 1524 by Sir Robert Rede, Chief Justice of the 

 Common Pleas in the reign of Henry VIL) were amalga- 

 mated, and the result has been the delivery once a year of 

 the Rede Lecture by some distinguished man of science 

 chosen by the Vice-Chancellor for the time being. Such 

 is the history of the benefaction ; but it must now be added 

 that as the remains of this distinguished man lie in a 

 village church in Kent, that of Chiddingstone, near Eden 

 Bridge, in which parish he lived and died, without a me- 

 morial or inscription of any kind over his grave, it is pro- 

 posed to do for him what Cicero did for the unhonoured 

 grave of Archimedes, and an effort is, therefore, being 

 made to mark his place of burial by erecting a window of 

 stained glass in the chancel that he built. The cost of 

 the memorial, with suitable inscription, cannot be less 

 than 160/., but nearly 70/. has been raised by subscriptions 

 from the distinguished persons who have delivered the 

 lecture, and by other friends, members of the university 

 and otherwise— viz., the Earls of Powis, Derby, and 



« I am mdebled to Mr. Jeffreys for the identification of species to which 

 .an asterisk is attached. He corroborates also my determination of the re- 

 mainder. 



Strathmore, the Vice-Chancellor, the Masters of Jesus 

 and Clare Colleges, the Provost of King's, Professors 

 Selwyn and Sedgwick, Mr. Beresford-Hope, M.P., Sir 

 John Lubbock, M.P., the Public Librarian, Rev. W. H. 

 Latham, and J. Brocklebank, with many others ; but the 

 amount thus subscribed, together with the local effort, is 

 inadequate for the full completion of the memorial, and it 

 is hoped that there will be some others who will be willing 

 to help on the work. Mr. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., the 

 present holder of the office of Rede Lecturer, has kindly 

 consented to receive subscriptions at 6, Old Palace Yard, 

 Westminster. 



It is proposed to erect the following inscription, from 

 the pen of Professor Selwyn, who will receive any sub- 

 scription forwa.rded to him at Cambridge. 



IN PIA.M MEMORIAM 



ROBERTI REDE MILITIS 



CAPITALIS JVSTICIARII 



DOMINI REGIS HENRICI VII. 



DE COMMVNI BANCO 



QVI HOC SACELLVM 



.EDIFICAVIT 



GRATI AC MEMORES 



BENEFICIORVM 



CANTABRIGIENSES SV[ 



HANC FENESTRAM 

 PONI CURAVERVNT 



THE CONJOINT EXAMINATION SCHEME* 



THE proposition carried at the last meeting of the 

 Council of the College of Surgeons clears away, we 

 suppose, the last difficulty in the way of an amalgamation 

 between the Colleges of iphysicians and Surgeons for the 

 purposes of examination and of issuing diplomas. It is 

 remarkable that the College of Surgeons should have 

 come back to the original proposal, though it was at first 

 demurred to and given to a committee for consideration. 

 The College of Physicians, at its Comitia on Thursday, 

 finally agreed to this proposal ; and it now only remains 

 for the General Medical Council to give its consent under 

 the Medical Act of 1858, so as to allow of the fusion in 

 question. 



In order to get at the practical working of the proposed 

 scheme of division of fees, we may take the present in- 

 come of the College of Surgeons from the membership 

 diploma, adding 10/. for each diploma issued to represent 

 the additional fee to include the College of Physicians. 

 The sum produced by the membership diploma during 

 the last financial year was close upon 8,000/. ; and if we 

 add 10/. for each of the 291 diplomas issued, we have in 

 round numbers the sum of 1 1,000/. The proposed scheme 

 is, that one-half of this should be devoted to all the e.x- 

 penses of the examinations, and that the remaining moiety 

 of 55,000/. should be divided into thirds. One-third is 

 to go to the support of the Museum of the College of 

 Surgeons and its unendowed professorships, one-third 

 for the maintenance of the personnel of the College 

 of Physicians, and one-third similarly to that of the 

 College of Surgeons. This will give the Hunterian 

 Museum and each of the Colleges some 1,800/. a year 

 apiece, irrespective of other sources of income. With 

 this income, it will, we imagine, be perfectly possible to 

 carry on satisfactorily the establishments in Pall Mall 

 and Lincoln's Inn Fields, if due economy be observed 

 and proper supervision exercised over the subordinate 

 officials. The Hunterian Museum will be upon a some- 

 what shorter allowance than heretofore ; but if this prove 

 insufficient, Parhament must be appealed to for a giant 

 in favour of what the Council of the College of Surgeons 

 properly characterises as an " institution of national as 

 well as professional importance." 



\Reprinled from The Lancet. 



