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NATURE 
[Fuly 6, 1871 

Council: Arthur Brewin, Geo. Dines, F. W. Doggett, H. S. 
Eaton, Fred. Gaster, Rev. C. H. Griffith, Dr. R. J. Mann, W. 
W. Saunders, F.R.S., R. H. Scott, F.R.S., Thos. Sopwith, 
F.R.S., S. C. Whitbread, F.R.S., E. O. W. Whitehouse. 
THE annual distribution of prizes at Owens College, Manches- 
ter, was held on June 23, when the chairman, Mr. A. Neild, 
stated that the report of the Principal exhibits a very satisfactory 
amount of work done during the session, and a considerable in- 
crease in the number of students. The quality of the work has 
also not in any degree fallen off. The session was opened by a 
lecture from Dr. Balfour Stewart, on his appointment to the 
chair of Natural Philosophy ; but his work was interrupted soon 
afterwards by a terrible accident which occurred to him at Har- 
row. He was glad, however, to be enabled to say that Prof. 
Stewart had so far recovered that he would be able to resume 
work at the commencement of the next session. A great deal 
had been done of late in the North of England in the way of in- 
creasing the teaching of Natural Science. He thought that so far 
as the means at their disposal enabled them, the managers of 
Owens College had made the institution a great school of Natural 
Science. At the same time, he hoped they should never fall into 
the opposite error of neglecting classical study and all that be- 
longed to it. There is every reason to anticipate that Owens 
College will enter on its new premises in the course of session 
1872-73. In addition to the prizes in the various classes, the 
following scholarships, &c., were then awarded :—Shuttleworth 
Scholarship (Political Economy), value 50/. per annum, tenable 
for two years: James Parkinson ; Dalton Chemical Scholarship, 
value 50/. per annum, tenable for two years: William Robert 
Jekyll ; Dalton Senior Mathematical Scholarship, value 25/. per 
annum, tenable for one year: John Henry Poynting; Dalton 
Junior Mathematical Scholarship, value 25/. per annum, tenable 
for one year: Arthur Walton Fuller; Ashbury Scholarship 
(Engineering), value 25/7. per annum, tenable for two years : Ed- 
gar S. Cobbold ; Dalton Natural History Prize, value 152. : 
Charles Henry Wade ; Engineering Essay Prize, Books of the 
value of 5/7. : John Alfred Griffiths. 
THE Glasgow Star says that the trustees of Anderson’s Univer- 
sity have been informed by their president—Mr. Young, of 
Kelly—that a gentleman had of his own accord made an offer of 
2,000/. towards founding a chair of Applied Physics. Among 
other things, the trustees agreed to record their hearty approval 
of the scheme for establishing a College of Technology in 
Glasgow. 
THE conditions necessary to the completion of the Brown 
Trust by the University of London have now been fulfilled. 
The University has been placed in possession of an excellent site, 
and abundant funds are forthcoming to carry out the objects of 
the Trust by founding an institution for the reception and treat- 
ment of sick and diseased domestic animals, which will afford 
invaluable opportunities for the advance of our knowledge of | I forget the kindness with which Arago and Thenard received 
their diseases and their relation to those of man—a subject, says 
the British Medical Fournal, of scientific and national im- 
portance, 
Dr T. BUCHANAN WHITE, President of the Perthshire Society 
of Natural Science, and editor of the Scottish Naturalist, pub- 
lishes a first contribution towards a knowledge of the animals 
inhabiting Perthshire, in the form of a list of the Lepidoptera of 
the county. 
THE last number of Petermann’s ‘* Mittheilungen ” contains 
an admirable map of the Diamond Fields of Natal and the Orange 
River. 
Tuer York School Natural History Society has issued its 
thirty-seventh Annual Report, from which we are glad to learn 
that the members show no lack of interest in the various branches 
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of Natural Science. The collections exhibited at the close of last 
year were as follows: in Botany, three, varying from 257 to 96 
species; of Lepidoptera, five, ranging from 105 to 72 species ; 
of Coleoptera, six, containing from 212 to 64 species, and one 
illustrative of Insects generally. Three Natural History diaries 
were exhibited, and three recording astronomical observations, 
the latter especially being the result ot much care and labour, 
and the observatory has been very diligently used. We trust 
that the society will long continue to exercise its useful in- 
fluence, and that the members will profit in after life by the 
opportunities which have been afforded them. 
THE Eastbourne Natural History Society, although only estab- 
lished in 1867, has already done a useful work in compiling for a 
new ‘‘ Guide” to the neighbourhood a provisional list of the 
Fauna and Flora of the district. The space at their disposal 
being necessarily limited, it was impossible to give more than an 
enumeration of the animals and plants of the neighbourhood : 
but the attempt is worthy of note asa step in the right direction. 
The mammalia and reptilia are arranged according to Bell, the 
birds and fishes after Yarrell ; for marine mollusca ‘‘ Forbes’ 
Handbook,” and for land and freshwater species ‘‘ Jeffreys’ 
British Conchology,” are followed; while the butterflies and 
moths follow respectively Morris and Newman. The flowering 
plants and ferns are arranged according to the ‘‘ London Cata- 
logue ;” the mosses and algze after Wilson and Gray ; there is 
also a list of fungi. The secretary of the society, the Rev. A. 
K. Cherrill, will be glad to receive any additional information, 
A valuable museum, chiefly geological, has been bequeathed to 
the town, and is to be placed under the care of the society, so 
soon as a suitable building can be provided for its accommoda- 
tion. 
AT a meeting of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences, 
on the 28th of March, Baron Liebig spoke thus of the future 
relations between Germany and France :—‘‘ The Academy seizes 
this moment to declare openly that there exists no national 
hatred between the German and Latin races. The peculiar 
character of the Germans, their knowledge of languages, their 
acquaintance with foreign people, the past and present state of 
their civilisation, all tend to make them just toward other peoples, 
even at the risk of often becoming unjust toward their own; and 
thus it is that we recognise how much we owe to the great 
philosophers, mathematicians, and naturalists of France, who 
have been in so many departments our masters and our models. 
I went forty-eight years ago to Paris to study chemistry; a 
| fortuitous circumstance drew upon me the attention of Alexander 
Von Humboldt, and a single word of recommendation from him 
caused M. Gay-Lussac, one of the greatest chemists and 
physicists of his time, to make to me, a young man of twenty, 
the proposal to continue and finish with his co-operation an 
| analysis which I had commenced ; he introduced me as a pupil 
into his laboratory ; my career was fixed after that. Never shall 
the German student ; and how many compatriots, physicians and 
others, could I not name who, like myself, gratefully remember 
the efficacious assis‘ance afforded to them by French men of 
science in finishing their studies. An ardent sympathy for all 
that is noble and grand, as well as a disinterested hospitality, 
form some of the most noble traits of the French character.” 
THE British Medical Fournal states that a person named 
G. M. Raufer puffs and sells for three shillings, under the name 
of ‘‘ lemonade for strengthening the memory,” a fluid mixture 
of about 30 grammes, containing 15 parts of phosphoric acid, 
15 of glycerine, and 70 of water. ‘This is sold in Vienna, 
Ir is stated in the British Medical Fournal that the Emperor 
of All the Russias has intimated to the University of Helsingfors, 
through the Senate of Finland, his willingness to permit women 
