an infinity of harm, and the fruits of which we are reaping, is at 
length to be reversed. In the speech to which we refer Mr. Glad- 
stone said :—‘*‘I do not at all deny that many fields of inquiry 
have been so much widened and deepened of late years, that it is 
both becoming and proper for the Government from time to time, 
according to circumstances and occasions, to take part in, and 
“give encouragement and assistance to, those things, many ee 
which indeed cannot be prosecuted without that assistance.” 
The paper read at the meeting to which we refer was one by 
Mr. G. Smith on a Chaldean account of the Deluge which he 
has recently deciphered. This communication was of such high 
importance that we hope to be able to refer to it at length next 
week. 
THE next meeting of the British Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science will be held at Bradford, not on September 19, 
1873, as was fixed at the Brighton meeting, but for the con- 
venience of many who have objected to the date, a fortnight 
earlier than that time. The Vice-Presidents appointed are Earl 
Rosse, Lord Houghton, Mr. W. E, Forster, M.P., and the 
Mayor of Bradford (Mr. Thompson). At Bradford an exe- 
cutive committee of sixteen persons, and also a larger general 
committee have, as usual, been appointed to prepare for the 
next meeting of the Association, anda public subscription, which 
isnot to be less than 4,000/., has been opened, for the purpose 
of defraying the estimated expenses in connection with the visit 
of the Association to the town. Of this sum 1,500/. will be 
required for the erection of a temporary building as a reception 
room. At a meeting held the other night 1,000/, were contri- 
buted on the spot, including 250/. by the Mayor. 
Ar the recent second M.B, examination at the University of 
London, the Scholarship and Gold Medal in Medicine were 
awarded to Mr. B. N. Dalton, of Guy’s Hospital, the Gold 
Medal in Medicine to Mr. W. Ottley, of University College, the 
Scholarship and Gold Medal in Obstetric Medicine to Mr. Robert 
Eardley Wilmot, of King’s College, the Gold Medal in Obstetric 
Medicine to Mr. W. C. Greenfield, of University College, the 
Gold Medals in Forensic Medicine to Messrs. M. Harris, of Guy’s 
Hospital, and W. Ottley, of University College. 
THE Brakenbury Natural Science Scholarship at Balliol Col- 
lege, Oxford (80/, per annum for four years), has been awarded 
to Mr. R. B. Don, of Clifton College. No fewer than four other 
scholarships in Natural Science have already been gained during 
the present year by boys from Clifton College, viz., two at St. 
Peter’s College, Cambridge, one at Christ College, Oxford, and 
one at Magdalen College, Oxford. 
VicE-CHANCELLOR BACON has decided that the conditions of 
the legacy under which sums of money were left by the late Mr. 
- James Yates to endow the Professorship of Mineralogy and Geo- 
logy at University College, and to found a Professorship of 
Archeology at the same college, have not been fulfilled, and that 
the legacies have therefore reverted to the heir-at-law of Mr 
Yates. 
In accordance with the anticipation we have already ex- 
pressed, Dr. Macalister has been chosen to fill the newly-founded 
chair of Comparative Anatomy at Trinity College, Dublin. Dr, 
Macalister continues to hold the Professorship of Zoology in the 
University of Dublin. 
Mr. J. A. WANKLYN has, according to the Chemical News, 
become a candidate for the Chemical Preelectorship at Cam- 
bridge. 
Mr. E, G, Pirr has been appointed Medical Officer of the 
south district of St. George’s-in-the-East. 
Mr. Bass has eae mae with Doe ‘towards the eree- 
tion of a free library. 
A MADAME DE PERINOT has left to the French Academy 
Sciences a legacy of 20,000 francs for the foundation of a prize, | 
be awarded every two years, for the purpose of assisting antes 
nomers and encouraging astronomical researches. 
THE two Actonian prizes of 105/. have been awarded by tl 
Managers of the Royal Institution t@ the Rev. George Henslo 
and to Mr. B. Thompson mpage for “ Essays on the Theory of 
the Evolution of Living Things.” 
Tuer Baroness Burdett Coutts’ prize for the best essay on the 
Isochronism of the Balance-spring was divided by the adjudicators 
equally between Mr. Palmer, of Leominster, and Mr. Moritz 
Immisch, of Regent Street, neither taking precedence of the 
other. p 
Ir is satisfactory to learn that 116 citizens or New York have 
lately tendered to Mr. B. Waterhouse Hawkins an expression 
of their sympathy with him in his grief at the loss of his model 
of the gigantic fossil reptiles of North America, which were 
broken to pieces and carted off as rubbish by order of certain 
unenlightened officials of the public parks, as mentioned in 
NATURE some time ago. Mr. Hawkins has presented some 
casts of the pelvic and other bones of Hadrosaurus (one of the 
most interesting of these restorations) to the Museum of the 
Royal College of Surgeons. 
Tue new Medical Microscopical Society will meet at § P.M. 
on December 6, in the college dining hall, St. Bartholomew’s 
Hospital, to sanction rules, elect officers, and receive names of 
intending members, &c. > 
Messrs, L, REEVE and Co, announce a new and important 
part of Bentham and Hooker’s “Genera Plantarum” at the 
commencement of the new year. It will include Dna 
Valerianaceze, Composite, and Rubiacez. 
WE have received from Mr. Quaritch, of Piccadilly, a list of 
yery valuable books he has for sale from the libraries of © 
late Dr. Robert Wright, F.R.S. late of Madras, of the late Pro 
Babbage, of the late Mr. G. R. Gray, F.R.S. of the British 
Museum, and the library of an architect. . 
THE official Report of the Proceedings of the Meteorologi 
Conference at Leipzig in August last will appear in the Jo : 
of the Austrian Meteorological Society, and is now in the press. 
A translation is being prepared by Mr. Robert H. Scott, and 
will be issued under the authority of the Meteorological Con 
mittee as soon as possible after the appestanite of the German a. 
original. 
We have received the first number of the Telegraphic Fourwtaly : 
whose expected appearance we announced some time ago, and 
to judge from the prospectus to the first issue, it promises to 
perform good services to the scientific and industrial department _ 
with which it is connected. From one paper we learn that the — 
total number of marine cables laid is 213, measuring 43, 783% 
miles. 
WE have received from the United States Government copies” 
of their official tri-daily weather-map and bulletin, containing the 
result of meteorological observations takensimultaneously at about: d 
eighty stations. 
WE learn from the Photographic News that Dr. Vogel, tet 
President of the Berlin Society for the Advancement of Photo- i 
graphy, and instructor in the art at the Royal Industrial College, i 
has been made a Professor. Thus we have the first instance of — 
the appointment of a Professor of Photography, and we heartily” 
join the German photographers in their congratulations on 
chair being so worthily filled. Dr. Vogel is about to pallet 
photographic dictionary. 
