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Christ Church, limited to persons under nineteen ; at Magdalen 

 College, limited to persons under nineteen years on July 2, 

 1885. 



Mr. J. N. Dobie has been elected to a Natural Science 

 Scholarship at Exeter College in Biology and Chemistry. 



Cambridge. — Mr. G. F. Harmer, B.A., of King's College, 

 has been appointed Demonstrator of Comparative Anatomy. 

 Mr. Harmer was placed in the first class of the Natural Sciences 

 Tripos in 1SS3, being distinguished in Zoology and Comparative 

 Anatomy. 



An examination for Entrance and Foundation Scholarships 

 will be held at Gonville and Caius College, beginning on 

 January 9 next. Six Entrance Scholarships, varying in value 

 from 40/. to 80/., may be awarded. The successful candidates 

 must come into residence in October 1885. They may be 

 awarded for Classics, Mathematics, or Natural Science, sepa- 

 rately or combined. They are tenable for a year, when the 

 holder will be eligible for a Foundation Scholarship. The 

 scholarships may be increased or diminished each year, according 

 to the scholar's performances in the College or University 

 Examinations. Those who distinguish themselves in the Triposes 

 may have their scholarships prolonged after their degree. A 

 successful candidate, who after the examination enters for com- 

 petition at another College, forfeits ipso facto any scholarship for 

 which he may have been recommended. Candidates must be 

 under nineteen years of age on the first day of examination. 

 Undergraduates of the College may at the same examination 

 compete for scholarships, in which case there is no restriction 

 of age. Candidates in Natural Science will be examined in 

 Physics, Chemistry, Bi dogy, and Animal Physiology, and 

 will be expected to show proficiency in at least two of these 

 subjects, of which chemistry must be one. The Rev. A. W. YV. 

 Steel, Senior Tutor, will furnish fuller particulars. 



Eectures and Demonstrations on Physics and Chemistry in 

 Michaelmas Term : Prof. Stokes, short course on Double 

 Refraction and Polarisation ; Mr. Atkinson, Heat and Hydro- 

 statics ; Mr. Glazebrook, Electricity (el.), also Advanced 

 Physics ; Mr. Shaw, Physics, Elementary and Advanced ; 

 Mr. Hart, Mechanics and Heat (istM.B.); Electricity (Nat. 

 Sci. Tripos, Part 1) ; Practical Physics, Demonstrations and 

 Practical Work at Cavendish Laboratory. 



Chemistry : Prof. Liveing, General Course ; Prof. Dewar, 

 Dissociation and Thermal Chemistry ; Mr. Main, Elementary 

 Organic Chemistry ; Mr. Pattison Muir, General Principles, 

 and Elementary Chemistry, especially Metals ; Mr. Heycock, 

 General Principles (non-metals). 



Demonstrations in Spectroscopic Analysis, Prof. Liveing ; 

 Special Demonstrations for Medical Students, Mr. Sell and 

 Mr. Fenton ; also Special Demonstrations for Nat. Sci. Tripos, 

 Part 1 ; Mr. Robinson, Demonstrations in Analysis of Food 

 and Water ; Practical Work at the University, St. John's, Caius, 

 and Sidney College Laboratories. 



Prof. Lewis, Mineralogy and Crystallography ; Demonstra- 

 tions on Minerals, by Mr. Solby. 



Prof. Stuart, Mechanism and Applied Mechanics ; Mr. Lyon, 

 Rigid Dynamics. The Mechanical Workshops are open from 

 S to I and 2 to 6 daily. 



Geology : Prof. Hughes, Economic Geology and Geological 

 Surveying; Tides, Mr. E. Hill; Stratigraphy, Dr. R. D. 

 Roberts ; Palaeontology, Echinoidea, Mr. T. Roberts ; Con- 

 stituents of Rocks, Mr. A. Harker. Field Lectures will be 

 specially announced. 



Botany, Elementary, with Practical Work, Dr. Vines ; Phy- 

 siology of Plants, Advanced, Dr. Vines. 



Zoology and Comparative Anatomy : Prof. Newton, Evolu- 

 tion in the Animal Kingdom ; Elementary Morphology (Tnverte- 

 brata, Mr. Sedgwick ; Advanced Invertebrata, Mr. Harmer ; 

 Mammalia, Living and Extinct, Osteology, Strickland Curator 

 (Dr. Gadow). 



Physiology, Elementary Course, with Practical Work, Prof. 

 Foster ; Chemical Physiology, Advanced, Mr. Lea ; Adv.inced 

 Course of Physiology and Histology, Mr. Langley ; Preparation 

 for 2nd M.B., Mr. Hill. 



Human Anatomy, Muscular System, Prof. Macalister ; also 

 Demonstrations of Visceral Anatomy ; General Pathology, 

 Prof. Roy ; also Practical Class in Morbid Histology. 



Advanced Mathematical Lectures : Prof. Stokes, Optics ; 

 Prof. Cayley, Recent Developments in Analysis and Geometry ; 

 Prof. Darwin, Theoretical Astronomy ; Mr. Forsyth, Higher 

 Ugebra, Binary Forms ; Mr. Hobson, Higher Dynamics ; Mr. 



Glazebrook, Higher Geometrical Optics ; Mr. J. J. Thomson, 

 Electrostatics ; Mr. Macaulay, Thermodynamics ; Dr. Besant, 

 Theory of Equations, Differential and Integral Calculus ; Mr. 

 Lock, Fourier's Series, and Vibrations of Strings and Bars ; 

 Mr. Stearn, Hydrodynamics ; Mr. Temperley, Laplace's Func- 

 tions ; Mr. Webb, Theory of Attractions and Elasticity, if a 

 sufficient number apply. 



The formal inauguration of the University College of North 

 Wales, Bangor, has been fixed for the 18th inst., and it is ex- 

 pected that the Duke of Westminster, the Earl of Powis, Lord 

 Aberdare, Lord Penrhyn, Mr. Mundella, and other gentlemen, 

 will take part in the proceedings. The fitting up of the 

 new laboratories and lecture theatres for the chemical and 

 physical departments is being rapidly pushed forward, and the 

 buildings include a very complete suite of rooms for the use of 

 each department. An excellent equipment of scientific appa- 

 ratus has been secured for all branches of chemistry and physics. 

 Mr. George Macgowan, F.R.S.E., formerly of Prof. Fresenius's 

 Laboratory, Wiesbaden, and now of Piof. Kolbe's Laboratory, 

 Leipzig, has been appointed Demonstrator in Chemistry under 

 Prof. Dobbie, and Mr. D. M. Lewis, M.A., Trinity College, 

 Cambridge, Demonstrator in Physics under Prof. Gray. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES 

 Sydney 

 Linnean Society of New South Wales, July 30. — Dr. 

 James C. Cox, F.L.S., Vice-President, in the chair. — The fol- 

 lowing papers were read : — Revision of the Lamellibranchiata 

 of New Zealand, by Capt. F. W. Hutton, F.G.S. This is a 

 carefully revised list of all the Lamellibranchiate mollusks of 

 New Zealand, with the corrected synonyms and localities of 

 each species. A list is also given of the names of each genus 

 which had been wrongly included by previous authorities in the 

 New Zealand fauna. — List of some New South Wales Zoophytes 

 identified by Dr. Kirchenpauer, hy Baron Sir F. von Mueller, 

 K.C.M.G., F.R.S., &c. The list contains the exact localities 

 of six species of Hydroida and fifteen of Bryozoa collected by 

 Miss Bate on the south-east coast, and Miss Hodgkinson at the 

 Richmond River. They were all detached from sea-weeds, and 

 identified by Dr. Kirchenpauer, Burgomeister of Hamburg. — 

 New Fishes in the Queensland Museum, part iii., by Charles W. 

 De Vis, M.A. Mr. De Vis in this paper goes through the 

 families Berycidce, Scianidce, Caranqida, Scombridtz, Trachiii- 

 ida, and Tri'lidce, describing in all twenty-three new species, 

 mostly from the coasts of Northern Queensland. — Census of 

 Australian snakes, with descriptions of two new species, by 

 William Macleay, F.L. S. The two new species are named 

 Dipsas boydii and Diemenia atra, both from the Herbert River 

 District, Queensland. The census gives the names, references, 

 and localities of 108 species of snakes, thirty-five of these being 

 innocuous, and seventy-three venomous. The paper concludes 

 with some remarks on the immunity from snake-bite enjoyed by- 

 Australia, as compared with India. — On a new species of kan- 

 garoo {Dorcopsis chalmersit) from the south-east end of New 

 Guinea, by N. de Miklouho-Maclay. A young kangaroo ob- 

 tained by N. de Miklouho-Maclay in New Guinea, in 18S0, has 

 proved to be (on account of the great size of the praemolars, the 

 general shape of the skull, and the direction of the hair on the 

 neck) a new sp-cies of Dorcopsis, which he describes as Dor- 

 copsis chalmersii, Mel. The specific name, Cha.mersii, is 

 given in honour of the well-known and distinguished mis- 

 sionary of the south coast of New Guinea. The paper con- 

 tains a full description of the animal and its dentition. — 

 On a complete debouchement of the sulcus Rolando into the 

 fissura Sylvii in some brains of Australian aboriginals, by N. de 

 Miklouho-Maclay. A complete junction of the sulcus Rolando 

 with the fissura Sylvii, which is very rare in brains of our race 

 (a single case only having been described by Prof. Turner), has 

 been found by the author in two out of four brains of Australian 

 aboriginals. The junctions of the sulcus Rolando with other 

 sulci are, according to Dr. Maclay, also not uncommon in brains 

 of men of dark races, and occur more frequently than in the 

 brain-, of men of the white race.— The Australian Hydromedu<a\ 

 part v. (conclusion), by R. von Lendenfeld, Ph.D. In this 

 paper the monograph on the Australian Hydromedusae is brought 

 to a close. All known Australian species are enumerated, with 

 the necessary references, and thirty new species discovered and 

 described by the author are added. The total number of species 



