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meeting was immediately held in connection with the distribu- 
tion of prizes by the Turners’ Company, for the best specimens 
of workmanship in the turning of articles in ivory and stone. It 
is creditable to this Company that it has by this means been en- 
deayouring to promote technical education for some years past, 
and if all the other City Companies took the trouble to follow 
the Turners’ example, and encourage the introductlon into the 
various trades and handicrafts with which they are connected of 
a scientific method of workmanship founded upon scientific 
knowledge of material and on sound scientific theory, we believe 
they would be doing eminent service that would be fruitful of the 
best results to the trade and commerce and manufactures of the 
kingdom. 
Mr. T, W. Burr writes us that he has, since 1853, been in the 
habit of using a sidereal dial similar to that described by Captain 
Mayne, in NATuRE, vol. viii. p. 366. 
THE death of Prof. John Lewis Russell is announced as 
having taken place at Salem, U.S., on the 7th of June, in the sixty- 
fifth year of his age. Prof. Russell was well known as an ardent 
student of botany, and especially in the department of New 
England cryptogams, in which he was a recognised authority. 
He took much interest in the scientific societies of Salem, having 
been connected more or less with their foundation and adminis- 
tration during the active years of his life. 
Pror, AGassiz has recently lost one of his most valuable 
assistants in the death of Dr. G. A. Maack, on the 6th of August | 
last, in the thirty-third year of his age. He was connected with 
the Cambridge Museum for several years, during which time 
he was detailed by his chief to act as geologist of the Darien 
Isthmus exploring party, under Commander Selfridge, and also 
prosecuted similar researches in Brazil and elsewhere in South 
America. He was specially charged with the osteological 
collection of the Cambridge Museum, which he managed 
with great ability. 
THE death is announced of Mr, George Ormerod, of Sedbury 
Park, Gloucestershire, F.R.S., F.S.A,, D.C.L., &c., a well- 
known antiquary. He was eighty-seven years of age. 
THE Yournal of Botany records the death of Dr. J. Lindsay 
Stewart, late Conservator of forests in the Punjaub, who had 
rendered great service to the cause of forest administration in 
India, by the commencement of the large and now flourishing 
plantations in the plains of the Punjaub, and who was also a 
copious writer on Indian botany. 
“CONTRIBUTIONS to our knowledge of the Meteorology of 
the Antarctic Regions,” published by the Meteorological Com- 
mittee, will be of value both to meteorologists and to future 
Antarctic navigators, The work has been executed by Mr. R. 
Strachan, and the materials which form the paper have been ex. 
tracted from the Meteorological Registers kept in the Antarctic 
Regions, on board H.M.S. Zvebus and Terror, during the 
months December 1840—March 1841, December 1841—March 
1842, December 1842—March 1843, and on board H.M. sloop 
fagoda during January-March 1845, 
As a result of the inquiry into the recent typhoid epidemic, we 
are glad to see that the Dairy Reform Company have secured the 
co-operation of Prof. Corfield, M.D., Prof. Voelcker, Ph.D., 
and Prof, Wanklyn, to carry out the precautions which have 
been adopted. A medical and veterinary examination of the 
employés and stock on each farm is made every week, and 
reports are forwarded to the Company’s chief office in Orchard 
Street, where they are open to the inspection of customers from 
TO A.M. to 4 P.M., on week days. Orders of admission to all 
their establishments have been given to the medical officers of 
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health for the following districts :—St. James's, Marylebone, 
Kensington, St, George’s, Paddington, Chelsea, and St. Pancras. 
WITH reference to our note in last week’s number concerning — 
the Leeds Daily News, we are glad to be able to say that the 
Leeds Mercury and the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer also. 
report the transactions of the Leeds Naturalists’ Field Club. : 
Messrs. CHURCHILL have in the press and will publish during 
the ensuing season the following works of interest to scientific § 
men :—‘‘On Food, Physiologically, Dietetically, and Therapeu- 
tically considered,” by F. W. Pavy, M.D., F.R.S. ; a third and 
enlarged edition of Dr. Lionel Beale’s ‘ Protoplasm, Dissentient™ 
Demonstrative, and Speculative,” with 16 plates; a second 
edition of ‘‘The Thanatophidia of India,” by J. Fayrer, 
M.D., C.S.1. ; a new illustrated work on ‘‘ Medicinal Plants,’ 
by Robert Bentley, F.L.S., and Henry Trimen, M.B., F.L.S, 
This work will include full botanical descriptions and an account 
of the properties and uses of the principal plants employed — 
in medicine, especial attention being paid to those which are 
officinal in the British and United States Pharmacopeeias, 
The plants which supply food and substances required by the 
sick and convalescent will be also included. Each species will 
be illustrated by a coloured plate drawn from nature. This 
work will be published in monthly parts, of which we 
may expect the first very shortly. A translation by Arthur 
E. J. Barker, of Frey’s “‘Manual of the Histology and — 
Histo-Chemistry of Man,” a treatise on the elements of 
structure and composition of the human body ; the book will be- 
largely illustrated with engravings on wood, and specially — 
revised by the author. ‘‘ The Microscope and its Revelations,” — 
by Dr, W. B, Carpenter, F.R.S. ; a new edition with upwards — 
of 500 engravings.” ‘Experimental Investigations of the — 
Action of Medicines ;” being a handbook of Practical Pharmaco- 
logy, with engravings, by T. Lauder Brunton, M.D., one of the 4 
lecturers at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital ; ‘The Student’s Guide © 
to Zoology,” with engravings on wood, by Andrew Wilson, — 
Lecturer on Zoology at Edinburgh and author of ‘Elements of _ 
Zoology ;” ‘On Long, Short, and Weak Sight, and their 
Treatment by the Scientific use of Spectacles,” by J. Soelberg — 
Wells, F.R.C.S., fourth edition, with engravings, ee 
Messrs. BLacKwoop will shortly publish, ‘‘ Economic Geo- _ 
logy, or Geology in its relation to the Arts and Manufactures,” 
by David Page, LL.D. ; and an “Advanced Text-Book of 
Botany,” for the use of Students, by Dr. Robert Brown, — 
F.R.G.S., with numerous Illustrations. ty Sea 
Messrs. STRANAN & Co, announce, as nearly ready, “The — 
, Great Ice Age and its Relation to the Antiquity of Man,” by q 
|, James Geikie, F.R.S.E., of H.M. Geological Survey. This _ 
| work will be copiously illustrated. y 
THE third session of the Newcastle College of Science com- 
menced on Tuesday, presided over by the Dean of Durham. 
Prof. Herschel delivered an address. The necessity for shortly 
providing more accommodation was considered, and it was 
understood that an effort was about to be made to raise funds for a 
a new college. The very rev. chairman also mentioned that a 
College of Agriculture was about to be founded in Central North- _ 
umberland in connection with the University of Durham. : 
THE annual distribution of prizes to the successful competitors 
in the Guildford Science and Art classes, awarded by the Go- 
vernment Department of Science and Art, took place on the 
evening of October 1, at the Town Hall. In addition to the 
Guildford prizes those won by the students of St. John’s, Woking, | 
were also distributed, as well as the Night Art Class of the 
Guildfold Working Men’s Institute. The number of students 
has continued steadily to increase upon former years, 62 having — 
