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[ApriL 8, 1897 
appeared in NATURE, vol. liii. p. 419) were unequally 
inflated. Not only can the texture of both of them be 
satisfactorily made out, but on the right side there is a 
uniformly tinted hemi-cardiac-shadow, indicative of the 
greatly thickened right lobe of the liver. Indications of 
the base of the stomach are also to be made out, and on 
both sides of the body there are feeble shadows at places 
coincident with the oviducts. 
Messrs. Green and Gardiner have also favoured us with 
an advanced print of a sciagraph of a Pe/ody/es, which is in 
some respects sharper than those which they have placed 
on the market. They are continuing the work, and have 
recently exhibited before the Linnean and Malacological 
Societies sciagraphs of molluscs no less successful than 
those here under review—for they have obtained from 
the entire Vawti/us a pictorial record of the muscle scars 
and lines of origin of the septa (a reprint of which is 
shortly to appear in the Proceedings of the Malacological 
Society), and from an entire Chiton of the plate-margins, 
which lie beneath the body-wall and are of primary 
taxonomic importance. 
Mr. Green is one of our most accomplished zoological 
lithographers. Recent plates of his, which have appeared 
in the British Museum Catalogue of Snakes, and in the 
Proceedings of the Zoological and Malacological Societies, 
lead us to hope that in some departments of the work he 
may outrival his foreign contemporaries ; and with the 
Réntgen rays he and his colleague have been no less 
successful. Their portfolio is elegantly got-up ; and its 
value is materially enhanced by an accompanying intro- 
duction, dealing with geographical distribution and 
structure, from the pen of the distinguished herpetologist 
whose work incited them to action. We shall watch 
with intense interest the development of their enterprise, 
which has already produced results of the greatest 
service to the student of animal life. 
NOTES 
THE names of those who attended Prof. Sylvester’s funeral, 
copied from the Zzmes, were by inadvertence inserted at the 
end of Major MacMahon’s article, instead of beneath his 
signature, 
M. Rapau has been elected a member of the Section of 
Astronomy of the Paris Academy of Sciences, in succession to 
the late M. Tisserand. 
Sir JouNn Evans, K.C.B., Treasurer of the Royal Society, 
has been elected a Corresponding Member of the Academy of 
Sciences of Bologna, in succession to the late Right Hon. T. H. 
Huxley. 
PROF. ALBERT VON KOLLIKER, the eminent professor of 
anatomy in the University of Wiirzburg, has had the title of 
“« Excellency” conferred upon him. 
Dr. LAUDER BRUNTON, F-.R.S., will give one of the general 
addresses at the forthcoming International Medical Congress in 
Moscow. ; 
Pror, E. Ray LANKESTER, F.R.S., will preside over the 
meeting of the Museums Association, to be held at Oxford on 
July 7-9 of this year. 
THE ninth meeting of the International Congress of Hygiene 
and Demography, which was to have been held at Madrid in 
October of the present year, has been postponed till April 
1808. 
Dr. H. E. ArMsrronc, F.R.S., has been elected a member 
of the Atheneum Club, under the rule which empowers the 
annual election by the Committee of nine persons ‘‘of dis- 
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tinguished eminence in science, literature, the arts, or for public 
services.” 
A FINE bronze statue of the late Sir Richard Owen has just 
been placed in the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, 
facing the statue of Darwin. The funds for the statue were 
raised by public subscription. 
WE regret to have to record the death of Dr. G, A. Kenn- 
gott, for many years professor of mineralogy in the University 
of Ziirich, and director of the mineralogical museum there. 
A REeEvuTER’s telegram from Ottawa says that the Canadian 
Government intends to begin immediately the works for en- 
larging and deepening the canal system in the Dominion, secur- 
ing a uniform depth of 14 feet from Lake Superior to Montreal, 
at an estimated cost of 10,000,000 dollars. 
ACCORDING to a telegram which the Zazcet has received from 
Bombay, the Yersin serum treatment of plague has practically 
failed. So far the mortality has been 50 per cent. in the selected 
cases within forty-eight hours of the attack. The hospital 
mortality is stated to be 60 per cent. in all cases. 
Ir is now fifty years since Dr. H. C. Sorby, F.R.S., of 
Sheffield, published the first of his long series of papers. The 
Literary and Philosophical Society of his native city have deter- 
mined to celebrate the occasion by having his portrait painted, 
and have opened a subscription list for the purpose. The 
treasurer is Mr. A. T, Watson, Assay Offices, Leopold Street, 
Sheffield. 
Tue Ottawa correspondent of the 7z/es states that reports 
have been received from Mr.. William Ogilvie, a Govern- 
ment Surveyor, who is wintering on the Yukon, in which he 
speaks of gold discoveries on the tributaries of that river of 
almost incredible richness. Mr. Ogilvie has taken every means 
to verify the reports. On one stream three men had washed 
out 1200 dollars’ worth in eight days. The gold-bearing belt is 
300 miles long, and well within British territory. 
Dr. NANSEN delivered a lecture on his Arctic journey, on 
Saturday evening, at a meeting of the Berlin Geographical 
Society. After the lecture, it was announced that the Emperor 
had conferred on him the great gold medal for science and art, 
“*the highest distinction which can be bestowed in Germany 
for peaceful achievements.” Dr. Nansen also received the 
Humboldt gold medal of the Geographical Society, and was 
nominated an honorary member of the Society. On Sunday 
Dr. Nansen lunched with the Emperor at the Royal Castle. 
Tue British Consul at Chicago, in his report on the trade in 
his district for the past year, mentions that many goods of 
German make are finding their way into the Western States, 
and are taking the place of British goods. Amongst these are 
chemicals, quinine, ammonia, caustic soda, plate-glass, fuller’s 
earth, Portland cement, cutlery, needles, surgical instruments, 
paints, and oils. 
Sczence makes a strong protest against some vexatious pro- 
visions in the new Tariff Bill now before Congress. The Bill 
imposes a tax of 45 per cent. ad valorem on scientific apparatus 
“‘imported especially for colleges and other institutions” ; it 
imposes a tax of 25 per cent. on books imported for public 
libraries, on books ‘‘ printed in languages other than English,” 
on books ‘‘ printed more than twenty years,” and on books 
“‘devoted to original scientific research’; and it imposes a 
tax of 25 per cent. on works of art. This simple statement 
shows that men of science in the United States have abundant 
cause for complaint against the Bill. 
