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worse than useless unless race and age are taken into 

 account. 



Fig. I. — Anopheles larvae in several stages of iheir esca_ e from (he ova. 



Two well-executed full-page diagrams by Messrs. Ross 

 and Fielding-Ould illustrate the life-histnry of the 



Fig. 2.— Portion of : 



parasites of malaria, while the last half of the volume is 

 occupied with the Report of the Malaria Expedition to 

 NO. 1668, VOL. 64] 



Nigeria of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. 

 The latter contains many good illustrations of the cha- 

 racteristics of the country and of the development of 

 .'Xnopheles. Two of these are here reproduced, one 

 (Fig. i) showing Anopheles as ovum and larva, the 

 other (Fig. 2) a breeding-ground of .Anopheles. 



A portrait and short obituary notice of the late Dr. 

 Myers and an illustration of the Kanthack Medal in 

 Pathology also appear in this volume. All the papers 

 are valuable contributions to the science of medicine, 

 and we shall look forward with interest to the publication 

 of future volumes. R. T. H. 



NOTES. 



The Cape papers, says the Times, report the formation at 

 Cape Town of a " South African Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science," to work as far as possible on the lines of the 

 British Association. In July last a meeting was held to establish 

 a congress of engineers, when an influential committee was 

 appointed. The proposal gradually widened until at length it 

 was found feasible to establish a local " British Association," and 

 a meeting for that purpose, held under the chairmanship of Sir 

 David Gill, F. R. S., the Astronomer Royal at the Cape 

 Observatory, was largely attended, and the formation of the 

 Association having been decided upon by formal vote, the title 

 was discussed, "South African" being carried by 31 votes 

 against 19 for "African." 



A Rei'TER telegram of October 14 from Cape Town states 

 that the Discovery sailed that day from Simon's Bay for Lyttel- 

 ton. New Zealand. 



The resignation of Dr. 

 John Young, professor of 

 natural history and lec- 

 turer in geology in the 

 University of Glasgow, 

 is announced. Dr. Young, 

 who was appointed in 

 1866 to the professorship 

 he now vacates, will re- 

 lain his connection with 

 the Hunterian Museum, 

 of which he has for a 

 number of years been 

 curator. 



Prof. John Jolv, 

 F.R.S., has, subject to 

 the approval of the Lord 

 Lieutenant, been co-opted 

 to fill the vacancy on the 

 Irish Lights Board caused 

 by the death of jMr. J. 



Mr. J. R. Jackson, 

 who for a period of forty- 

 three years has been (asso- 

 ciated with the Royal 

 Gardens, Kew, has re- 

 signed the keepership of 

 the Museum of Economic 

 Botany, and is succeeded 

 by Mr. J. M. Hillier, 

 whose place, in turn, has 



been taken by Mr. J. H. Holland, late of the botanic station 



at Old Calabar. 



: Lokoia, showing butts and furrows, in the latter of which Anopheles puddles 



