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Renal Diseases, Lectureson Pathology and Therapeutics, &c. 
His reputation has been latterly much extended by his work on 
the early history of the Institution, and by his excellent biography 
of Faraday. Dr. Jones was a member of many learned and 
scientific societies, at home and abroad. It will not be easy for 
the managers of the Royal Institution to find one capable of so 
efficiently discharging the duties of Secretary. Our readers will 
remember that a short time ago a movement was set on foot to 
get up a well-deserved testimonial to Dr. Jones, which, in agree- 
ment with his own wishes, is to take the formof a bust to be 
placed in the Royal Institution. 
Dr. F. ARNOLD LEEs and Mr. T. B. Blow propose to form 
a club under the name of the Botanical Locality Record Club, 
the object of which shall be to collect and keep a record of the 
exact localities of all the rarer British plants, with the dates of 
the latest observance of each, to be published yearly at the end 
of each season. The yearly report, containing not only a detailed 
list of the localities, but also a geographical summary of each year’s 
work, is to be pubiished and distributed only to members of the 
club, and to certain learned societies; to the former a subscrip- 
tion of §s. will be charged. The names of botanists desiring to 
become members are to be forwarded to Mr. T. B. Blow, Wel- 
wyn, Hertfordshire. 
Mr. N. Hotmgs, Curator of the Museum of the Pharmaceuti- 
cal Society, has been appointed Lecturer on Botany to the West- 
minster Hospital, in the place of Mr. A. W. Bennett. 
Dr. ACLAND, the Regius Professor of Medicine in the Uni- 
versity of Oxford, has given notice that the following gentlemen 
have been appointed to Radcliffe Studeatships for the ensuing 
Term: Mr. A. W. Huirding, of University College Hospital ; 
Mr. Joseph H. Philpot, of King’s College Hospital ; Mr. 
William Garton, of St. Thomas’s Hospital ; and Mr. Frederick 
W. Jordan, of the Manchester Infirmary. 
AmonG the works recommended by the Board of Studies in 
Natural Science of the University of Oxford to students prepar- 
ing for examination at the University, is Sachs’s ‘‘ Lehrbuch der 
Botanik.” For the benefit of those unacquainted with the 
German language, the Delegates of the Clarendon Press have 
arranged with Prof. Sachs and with MM. Engelmann, of Leipzig, 
for an English translation of this work from the third edition, 
just published in Germany, and containing a large amount of 
additional matter ; the whole of the 460 woodcuts with which 
the original work is illustrated will be reproduced in the English 
edition. The translation has been entrusted to Mr. A. W. 
Bennett, who will also annotate the work on points where suffi- 
cient prominence does not appear to be given to recent researches, 
or undue prominence seems to be asssigned to certain theories, 
in which part of the labour he will be assisted by Prof, Thisel- 
ton Dyer. The work is expected to be ready by about the end 
of the year, 
Tue Edinburgh Botanical Society offers a prize of ten guineas 
for the best and approved essay on the Reproduction of Lyco- 
podiaceze, to be competed for by students who have attended the 
botanical class of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, during 
at least one of the three years preceding the award, and have 
gained honours in the class examinations. The author is ex- 
pected to give results of practical observations and experiments 
made by himself on the subject, illustrated by microscopical 
specimens. The essay and specimens to be given in on or before 
May 1, 1876, with a sealed note containing the author’s name, 
and a motto outside. Facilities will be given for carrying on 
observations and experiments at the Royal Botanic Garden, 
Edinburgh. A prize of ten guineas; is offered, through the 
Council of the Botanical Society, by Charles Jenner, Esq., for 
the best and approved essay on the Structure and jReproduction 
of the Frondose and Foliaceous Jungermanniaceze, 
is subject to all the conditions specified in the case of the — 
former. 3 
Mr. CHARLES B, PLowricHT, of the Hospital, King’s — 
Lynn, proposes issuing, under the title of ‘‘Sphzeriacei Bri- 
tannici,” a few sets, each containing one hundred specimens, 
intended to form a fair representation of the more important 
genera and species of the British Spheeriacei, 
be 1. 
THE soirée of the Royal Society is to take place at Burlington 
House on Saturday evening next, the 26th inst. 
WE regret to announce the death of Sir William Tite, M.P., 
at Torquay, on Sunday. 
WE regret to hear of the serious illness of the Rev. George - 
Henslow from a paralytic seizure, which has impaired the use of 
the lower limbs, but has not in any way affected his mental — 
faculties, or the use of his arms. We understand that he has 
appointed Dr. B. T. Lowne to take his place for the present 
season as lecturer on Botany at Bartholomew’s Hospital. 
IN pursuance of the recommendation of a committee appointed 
at a former meeting, a conference, presided over by theRey. H. 
Solly, took place on Saturday evening in further promotion of the 
movement for giving some of the advantages of University educa- 
tion to working men. The idea is to form a Guild of Operative 
tradesmen to arrange for the delivery of lectures in various 
places by lecturers provided by and sent from the University 
of Cambridge. 
meeting. The Council of Trades’ Delegates had passed a reso- 
lution expressing great satisfaction with the progress of the pro- 
posed scheme, while in the interviews which the chairman had 
had with the heads of the University every encouragement had 
been afforde| to the project, provided that a firm organisation 
could be secured to deal with. The following resolution was 
passed :—‘‘ That, ia the present defective state of technical and 
higher education for the workman, no adequate provision being 
made for those objects, either by the State or by private en- 
deavour, this meeting hails with satisfaction the proposal to form 
a Trades’ Guild of Learning to co-operate with the University 
of Cambridge and other parties willing to aid in the education 
of the people.” 
FREDERICH DAUTWITZ writes us that he will exhibit a col- 
lection of Cactacee at the Lustschloss, Schénbrunn, Vienna, 
where he will be glad to receive visitors. He is also desirous of : 
effecting exchanges, 
THE sum which was left as the proceeds of Prof. Tyndall’s 
lectures in America, after paying expenses, was 13,000 dols, 
This balance has been placed in charge of a committee con- 
sisting of Prof. Henry, General Hector Tyndale (Prof. Tyndall’s 
cousin), in Philadelphia, and Prof. Youmans, of New York, and 
these gentlemen are authorised to expend it in aid of students 
who devote themselves to original investigation. A suggestion 
has been made, and one worthy of encouragement, that efforts 
be initiated to secure an increase of this fund to at least 50,009 
dols., the whole to bear the name of the Tyndall Fund, so that 
the objects of the professor may be carried out to a fuller 
extent. 
SCIENCE is certainly in the ascendant in America at present. 
A fortnight ago we noted the princely gift of Mr. Anderson to 
Prof. Agassiz The California Academy of Sciences has 
recently received from Mr, James Lick a magnificent gift of a 
building site in the city of San Francisco, valued at about 
100,000 dollars. 
For the purpose of more fully carrying out the law of Congress 
in reference to the propagation of useful food fishes in the rivers — 
This prize — 
The price will 
Mr. Solly stated what had been done since last — 
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