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Arts, but representing more directly the business and thought of 
the City. The managers do not intend to restrict the reading 
and discussion of papers to the proprietors of the Institution, or 
to limit the range of subjects otherwise than by the provisions of 
the charter, which precludes politics and theology. 
ON Saturday last, the 17th, the Rugby School Natural His- 
tory Society made an excursion through Charnwood Forest. 
Mr. Hambly, the manager of the Mount Sorrel granite works, 
conducted them over his workshops and quarries ; and Mr. Ellis 
showed them his slate pits at Swithland, They also visited 
Woodhouse Eaves, the Beacon, the Monastery, and Bardon Hill. 
The geologists, botanists, and entomologists were alike well 
content with the results of a very pleasant day’s excursion. The 
party numbered forty-one. 
SIR JOUN PAKINGTON, as President of the Institution of Naval 
Architects, has addressed a letter to the President of the Board 
of Trade, in which, among other suggestions, he proposes as an 
additional clause in the ‘‘ Prevention of Accidents Act” that 
in future adjusters of compasses shall be duly certified by the 
Board of Trade, after examination, as properly qualified. 
WE are requested to state that the value of the Natural Science 
scholarship at Magdalen College, Oxford, will be 95/., and not 
8o/, as stated last week, and that the name of the successful 
competitor for the Johnson Memorial Prize Essay is John G, 
Gamble, not James S. Gamble. 
Dr. Murcuison, F.R.S., has been this week recommended 
hy the Grand Committee for election by the Governors as 
Physician to St. Thomas’s Hospital, Mr. Croft for election as 
Surgeon, Dr, John Harley and Dr. Frank Payne as Assistant 
Physicians, and Mr, Francis Mason and Mr, Henry Arnott as 
Assistant Surgeons. 
Dr. HOOKER reports that the upper valleys of the Atlas range 
are very steep and picturesque, and are thickly inhabited by a 
fine race of people called Shelloos. The first positive indication 
of ancient ice action met with was a stupendous moraine at about 
6,000 feet—a perfectly unmistakeable one, but, curiously enough, 
with no traces above or below it, no roches moutonneées, no striated 
or grooved surfaces, and no perched blocks, except on the moraine 
itself, The height of the peaks of the axis is very uniform for a 
considerable distance, and they have very steep faces ; there are 
no glaciers nor perpetual snow, properly so called ; but snow lies 
all the year in steep gullies of the north face, stretching down- 
wards for probably 5,000 feet from the summit. The vegetation 
is chiefly Spanish, 
THE following works on Science are amongst the publishers’ 
announcements for the next few weeks:—From Messrs. 
Longman—Dr, Ueberweg’s ‘‘System of Logic and History of 
Logical Doctrines,” translated by Thos. M. Lindsay ; ‘‘ Cooper’s 
Dictionary of Practical Surgery and Encyclopzedia of Surgical 
Science,” new edition by S, A. Lane; in Gleig’s School 
Series: ‘‘Animal Physiology,” by Dr. E. D. Mapother ; ‘‘ Phy- 
sical Geography,” by W. Hughes. From Mr. Murray— 
“Rambles among the Alps, 1860—1869,” by E. Whymper. 
From Griffith and Farran—‘‘The Theory and Practice of the 
Metric System of Weights and Measures,” by Prof. Leone 
Levi, F.S.A.; ‘‘A Compendious Grammar and Philological 
Handbook of the English Language,” by J. Stuart Colquhoun, 
M.A., barrister-at-law. From W. and R. Chambers—‘ Class 
Book of Science and Literature; Zoology from do.; Botany 
from do. ; Geology from do,” ; ‘‘Standard Animal Phy- 
siology,” Part I. for Standard 1V.; ‘‘ Standard Geography,” 
Part I. for Standard 1V.; “Standard Physical Geography,” 
for Standards IV., V., VI.; ‘‘Mackay’s Arithmetical Exer- 
cises,” for Standard Work, Parts I., 1I., I1I., 1V.; Part V., em- 
bracing Metric System; “ Standard Algebra ;” “Explicit Euclid,” 


Books I. and II. From S. Low, Son, and Co.—a complete 
treatise on the ‘Distillation and Preparation of Alcoholic 
Liquors,” translated from the French of M. Duplais, by Dr. 
M. McKennie; a treatise on ‘‘ The Manufacture of Vinegar,” 
by Prof. H. Dussance. From Cassell, Petter, and Galpin— 
“*Selected Obstetrical and Gynecological Works of Sir J. Y. 
Simpson,” edited by Dr. J. Watt Black ; “Model Drawing,” 
by Ellis A. Davidson, being the new volume of Cassell’s Tech- 
nical Manuals, with numerous illustrations and drawing copies ; 
the ‘Technical History of Commerce,” by Dr. Yeats, LL.D. ; 
the ‘‘ Natural History of Commerce” (second edition), by Dr, 
Yeats, LL.D. 
WE reprint the following sentence from the recently published 
address of the President of the Tyneside Naturalists’ Field Club, 
commending it to the notice of similar institutions throughout the 
country now that the season for excursions is commencing :— 
““We have no law excluding ladies from our club, but yet we 
have no lady members. Ladies, however, sometimes attend our 
meetings, and it would, I think, be an advantage to the club (may 
I hint also that it might be an advantage to the ladies?) if more 
of them came, and oftener. It is of infinite importance that 
mothers should be able to impart to their children an intelligent 
interest in Nature. They cannot do this unless they first possess 
that Interest themselves, and in what way can it be more 
pleasantly developed and refreshed than by meetings such as ours ? 
It may perhaps be objected that the length and occasionally the 
rugged character of our walks prove an obstacle to the presence 
of the weaker sex ; but my impression is that this is not the case 
to any very serious extent, and in many of our excursions ladies 
have proved themseves quite equal to walks as long and as 
arduous as are at all desirable for our purposes. I would there- 
fore recommend—not any new rule, which is needless—but 
simply that we should persuade our lady friends to join the club 
as members, and not as only casual visitors.” 
WE have received the prospectus of a proposed American 
Archeological Review and Historical Register, devoted to Archzeo- 
logy, Anthropology, and History, to be devoted to the rapidly 
increased interest displayed in these subjects in America, and 
designed not to meet the wants of men of science only, but of all 
interested in the Origin and Antiquity of Man. Its contents will 
include original contributions, the reports of learned societies in 
America and abroad, and a department of ‘‘ Notes and Queries.” 
The Review is intended to be published either monthly or quar- 
terly in New York, and will be edited by Dr. Wills de Hass. 
WE learn from the American Naturalist that Messrs. J. A. 
Allen and Richard Bliss, jun , of the Museum of Comparative 
Zoology at Cambridge, Mass., with Mr. C. W. Bennett, of 
Holyoke, Mass., started late in April on a six months’ collecting 
trip to the Plains and the Rocky Mountains. The primary ob- 
ject of the expedition is to collect the larger mammals of the 
West. 
THE Ohio Legislature has appropriated 21,000 dols. for conti- 
nuing the survey of that State, and 18,000 dols. for publication 
of the results. This survey is under the direction of Prof. 
Newberry himself ; and his corps, which has been employed for 
some time, will be increased by Prof. J. T. Hodge, Prof. J. H. 
Stevenson, and others, for the purpose of more speedily finishing 
the work. 
MANY scientific societies have been desirous of taking advan- 
tage of the International Exhibition and of the Albert Hall to 
hold meetings in connection with the Exhibition, and to bestow 
attention on scientific visitors. The small theatres have, how- 
ever, been occupied by specimens exhibited, and the Albert Hall 
is considered too large. 
A BRILLIANT meteor of unusual form was seen at Panama on 
the morning of May 1 at half-past two. It was due south and 
