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Two days afier it found its way out, the door having been 
left open, and immediately made off for the field from which it 
had been taken. The writer met it near the field walking (it 
‘ing chosen rightly between two branches into which the road 
diverges between the field and the farm-house) on the grass on the 
ide of the road : the farmer, an old man, was in pursuit, and called 
pon the writer to turn it back, which he did, but not without some 
difficulty, as it crossed from side to side, and made efforts to 
pass on, with all the tactics of an old animal, while it was barely 
three days old, and had been barely one when it was brought from 
the field. —I have the following from a well-authenticated source. 
A farmer in Bogside, Beith, of the name of Fleming, was looking 
out of his window one summer’s morning, about three o’clock, 
when he saw a fox crossing a field before it, carryinga large duck 
hat he had captured. On coming to a stone dyke about four 
feet high, on the side of the field, Reynard made an effort to leap 
er it with his prey, but failed, and fell back into the field. After 
making three attempts with the same result, he sat down and 
wed the dyke for a few minutes; after apparently satisfying 
himself, he caught the duck by the head, and standing up against 
the dyke with his fore paws, as high as he could reach, he placed 
he bill of the duck in a crevice in the wall ; then springing 
ipon the top, he reached down, and pulling up the duck dropped 
upon the other side, leaped down, and picking it up, went 
on his way. If this is not reason, it is nearly akin to it. 
_ We conclude with the following instances sent us by 
Mr. G. J. Romanes, of Cornwall Terrace, Regent's Park :— 
_A Colley dog accompanied his master witha flock of sheep 
down the Caledonian Canal, and between Ovan and Greenock 
suffered much from sea-sickness. Several months afterwards a 
imilar journey was undertsken by the same dog and man with 
another flock of sheep. Upon quitting the wharf at Oban, the 
dog, remembering that this was the point at which his troubles 
began on the former occasion, jumped ashore, leaving his master 
vith the sheep on board the steamer. Upon landing at Greenock 
he man was surprised to find his dog upon the quay awaiting 
s arrival—the animal having run by land from one whart to 
the other, over ground which he had never before traversed. 
The distance between Oban and Greenock is fifty miles in a 
traight line, but as this passes over high mountains as well 
s through a lake and two arms of the sea, it is not likely to have 
been the route taken, : 
_ My authority for this account is a, leading clergyman in 
Glasgow, who would, no doubt, be willing to give his name to 
ny one desiring it. 
The second instance, in its bearing upon Mr. Wallace’s theory, 
is even more conclusive. Another dog of the same kind sailed 
ith his master from Wick to Berwick, where he was lost. Ten 
(?) days afterwards he appeared at his home in Satherlandshire, 
footsore and exhausied, having, it must seem, run nearly the 
entire length, of Scorland. I am indebted for this information 
9a medical army-officer and well-known C.B. who had heard 
t from the owner of the dog. As my friend is at present in 
-health, I am unable co refresh my memory as to the number 
bf days occupied by the dog’s return journey, but I think it is 
orrectly stated. 
NOTES 
_ THE meeting to which we alluded last week in connection with 
memorial to the late Prof. Sedgwick, was held on Tuesday, 
nd was attended by a large number of scientific and uni- 
ersity friends of the late eminent geoiogist. Resolutions were 
assed that a geological museum be erected, to be called the 
edgwick Museum, and that a bust of the professor should be 
aced in it. A Cambridge and a London Committee were ap- 
Sinted. The Prince of Wales wrote that the object of the 
leeting would have his warm support, from the feeling of respect 
€ entertained for the late professor. 
Some efforts are now being made gradually to give the same 
imulus to the higher education of women as of men, The 
fational Union for Improving the Education of Women has 
fered seven scholarships of 25/. each, tenable for one year, for 
petition throughout the United Kingdom, the competitors 
) be young women over sixteen years of age. The scholarships 
NATURE 
41f 
will be awarded at the local examinations held during the present 
year by the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Edinburgh, 
and Trinity College, Dublin, the Science and Art Department, 
the Society of Arts, and the College of Preceptors. 
THE examiners for the Cambridge Natural Sciences Tripos 
for 1872 have represented to the Board of Natural Science 
‘Studies that they are of opinion that the time has now come 
when an increase in the number of examiners is urgently re- 
quired. The amount of physics now included in the subjects of 
examination is so large as to make it impossible to treat the 
examination in this subject any longer as an appendage to the 
examination in chemistry. The subjects of comparative anatomy, 
zoology, and physiology are also too wide to be undertaken as a 
general rule by one examiner. An increase in the number of 
examiners to seven would make it much more often possible to 
secure a real examination of the answers by two examiners, 
which is unquestionably desirable. The Board therefore recom- 
mend that in Regulation 1o for the Natural Sciences Tripos, for 
the words ‘‘two examiners” the words ‘three examiners” be 
substituted, and for the words ‘third examiner” the words 
‘fourth examiner” be substituted, and for the words “ five 
examiners” the words ‘‘seven examiners” be substituted. They 
recommend further that, in order to ensure the regular rotation 
of examiners, five examiners be nominated by the Board in the 
present year, of whom one shall be nominated to hold office 
for one year only. 
Mr. ARTHUR MILMAN, son of the late Dean of St. Paul’s, 
has been appointed Assistant-Registrar to the University of 
London, in the room of Dr. Hirst. 
Iris understood that Mr. Fowler, of Lincoln College, Oxford, 
author of the two works on Deductive and Inductive Logic, will 
be a candidate for the Professorship of Logic, vacant by the 
recent death of Prof. Wall. The appointment is made by Con- 
vocation. 
Tue late Mr. Julius Brenchley, whose death a month ago 
has been a great loss to scientific collectors, as well as to 
the town of Maidstone, left as the results of his voyage 
in the South Pacific, the last of his most extensive travels, the 
manuscript together with the. plates which illustrate it already 
drawn, of a work which he fully intended to have had printed, 
on the natural history of those regions. It is to be hoped 
that some means will be taken to insure their publication. 
IT is satisfactory to find that that the new ‘‘ Spanish Society 
of Natural History ” is continuing its career undisturbed by the 
political troubles around it, The third part of its Annals bear- 
ing date March 5, 1873, has reached this country, and is quite 
up to the mark of the parts which have preceded it. It con- 
tains the conclusion of Vilanova’s paper on ‘‘ the Pre-historic in 
Spain ;” a catalogue, by Gundlach, of the mamifera of Cuba ; a 
paper by Sharp, des ribing a new species of Spanish Coleoptera, 
and conteining the descriptions of several new biind beetles from 
the caves of the mountains of the Asturias ; a paper, by Colmeiro, 
on the elevations attained by cultivated plants in Ecuador ; also 
a long and careful paper by Colmeiro, on the Leguminosz of 
Spain and Portugal. This part completes the first volume, and 
contains index, and list of the members of the Society. On in- 
specting the latter it appears that only two of our countrymen 
have joined the Society. This fact has, we believe, been a con- 
siderable disap} ointment to the iounders of the Society, who 
hoped it would meet with a liberal support in this country. We 
hope that when the existence of t)e Society and the merit of its 
publications become more widely known, it will receive the 
recognition it deserves, 
