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Thomson, Sir Charles Wheatstone, Prof. Huxley, Dr. 
Carpenter, Sir Henry Holland, Prof. Stokes, Prof. All- 
man, Dr. Hooker, Mr. Siemens, and others. Under the 
guidance of Captain Nares, the commander of the Cha/- 
lenger, Prof. Wyville Thomson, the scientific leader of 
the expedition, and other members of the staff, the 
visitors inspected with keen interest all the fittings and 
appliances with which the handsome ship has been fur- 
nished for carrying out the purposes of the expedition. 
Everything appeared complete, and the perfection 
and abundance of the preparations excited the universal 
admiration of the visitors. Government, in this in- 
stance, have acted with the most praiseworthy libe- 
rality. The ship itself has a greater tonnage than the 
three ships together which formed the expedition of Cook 
in 1772. After the visitors had completed their inspection, 
they were entertained to an ample luncheon in the ward- 
room, under the presidency of Captain Nares. A few 
toasts were drunk anda few very brief speeches made, in 
which some well-deserved compliments were paid to those 
most intimately connected with the expedition. Dr. 
Carpenter felt sure that under Prof. Thomson’s super- 
intendence “no fact would be let go, and that every fact 
would find its place and its value when results came to be 
worked out ;” while Prof. Thomson said that if the vessel 
were not thoroughly equipped, it was the fault of the 
scientific staff ; they had met with every encouragement 
from Government to ask for what is necessary, 
We are sorry to hear that the Chad/enger has already 
met with a little rough treatment from some of the 
elements she is bound to explore. In the fierce gales 
which prevailed on Sunday, she lost her cutter, and was 
compelled to put into Deal. We believe no serious delay 
will result from this accident, which, we hope, may be the 
only one of the kind the party may meet with. According 
to present arrangements she leaves Portsmouth on Monday 
next, : 
We cannot, however, but express our regret that the 
party were allowed to set off on an absence from England 
which may be prolonged for four years, animated, in-their 
voluntary exile, by no motive but a desire to promote 
the interests of science, without some more official and 
more extended acknowledgment from their scientific 
brethren throughout the country thana few after-lunch 
speeches on board the corvette. Our contemporary 
Punch has, however, given his accolade to the expedition 
in some spirited lines :— 
“Broadside guns have made room to ship batteries magnetic, 
Apparatus turns out ammunition, 
From main-deck to ground-tier I’m a peripatetic 
Polytechnic marine exhibition,” 
PROCEEDINGS OF ZOOLOGICAL 
COLLECTORS 
R. T. K, SALMON has lately transmitted to his 
agent, Mr. E. Gerrard, jun., of Camden Town, 
a fine collection of birds from the province of Antioquia, 
United States of Columbia. Amongst them are speci- 
mens of a new Humming Bird, which Mr. Gould has de- 
scribed as Adelomyia cervina. Myr. Salmon has now 
pushed forward into the upper valley of the Cauca, where 
he will enter upon untrodden ground. 
Mr. Henry M. Whitely has also been very active lately 
in the district he is now exploring, in the Andes of Cara- 
vaya, east of Cuzco, Peru. His last collection contains 
some very fine species of Tanagers, previously only known 
from d’Orbigny’s specimens in the Paris Museum. There 
are also several remarkable humming birds in * Mr. 
Whitely’s collection, one of which, being new to science, 
Mr, Gould has named Jo/ema Whitelyana, after its dis- 
coverer. 
Letters have been received from Mr. Charles R. 
NATURE — 
Thatcher, who is ev voute for the Philippines, announcing 
his arrival at Yokohama, v/@ San Francisco, and imme- 
diate departure for his destination. Mr. Thatcher w te 
attend principally to the land-shells and birds of the 
Philippine Archipelago. BP. bo Sam 
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NOTES 4 
THE Italian Government has ordered a massive gold medal, 
with a suitable inscription, to be prepared for presentation to 
Dr. Livingstone. The medal was to be ready by the 3rd inst 
and was to be consigned—with an official letter addressed in 
king’s name to the great traveller—to Sir Bartle Frere, in ‘the 
hope that he may either present it in person, or forward it to 
him by some safe hand. The Commendatore Negri Cristofer 
President of the Italian Geographical Society, has been th 
prime mover in bringing about the gratifying recognition of 
Livingstone’s labours in behalf of Science and humanity 
the Italians generally appear to be delighted with the id 
being the first to tender him this national; proof of the | 
estimation in which they hold him. On one side the m 
bears the bust of the king, with the legend “ Vittorio Emmanu 
If. Ré d'Italia,” and on the obverse ‘‘A Davide Livingston; 
Vittorio Emmanuele II. 1872.” 2 wi 
AT a meeting of the Geographical Society on Monday ni 
Mr. Francis Galton, who occupied the chair, stated th 
believed Sir Bartle Frere would probably be in Alexandria} 
night, and that Lieut. Grandy, leader of the ‘Li ingst 
Congo Expedition,” would land in Sierra Leone about the 15th 
of this month. Mr. Galton also announced that a long list « £ 
astronomical observations had been received from Livingst 
by Sir Thomas Maclear, at the Cape, who says they will tak 
three or four months to reduce, ne 
WE greatly regret to have to record the death, on Mon 
last, of John Keast Lord, the manager of the Brighton Aquari 
We learn from the Brighton Daily News that Mr. Lord was la 
up with a severe attack of paralysis some months since, b 
though it was known that he was not in the enjoyment of robu 
health, it was far from being generally thought that his indisp 
tion would so soon be brought to a fatal termination. Originally 
a captain in the Royal Artillery, in which capacity he served it 
the Crimean war, and took part in the battle of Balaclava, M 
Lord seems to have always entertained an intense love for tl 
study of natural history; and at the close of the {Russian 
paign he quitted the army for a field in every way more cong: 
to his tastes. He now devoted himself to the study of nature in 
good earnest, and spent some time in Vancouver Island, which 
he appears to have thoroughly investigated. The results of his 
labours were afterwards given to the world in “ The Naturalist 
in Vancouver Island.” Mr, Lord afterwards served on 
North American Boundary Commission, and later on v 
engaged by the Viceroy of Egypt to report upon certain ch ara 
teristics of that country. It was from Egypt, we believe, 
he was called by the directors of the Aquarium to take the ap- 
pointment for which he was so peculiarly fitted. F 
THE University of Cambridge has passed a resolution by 
which in future successful candidates in Moral Science can 
sent themselves for the next Natural Science Tripos, and 
versa. gh tai, 
AN examination for minor scholarships for students intenc 
to commence residence at Cambridge next October will be he 
at Clare College on Wednesday, March 26, 1873. One of th 
of the value of 50/. tenable for 3} years, will be awarded 
Natural Sciences. The subjects are Chemistry, Chem 
Physics (including Light, Heat, and Electricity), Comparati 
Anatomy and Physiology, and Geology. § Excellence in any two 
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