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' * Tur arrangements are now completed for the session of the 
British Association, to commence on Wednesday next ; and we 
may fairly expect a successful meeting. The large number of 
foreign savants who have announced their intention of being 
present will add greatly to the interest of the meeting, and the 
inhabitants of the pleasant Scottish capital seem determined to 
display to the utmost their well-known hospitality, both in a 
public and private capacity. The President’s Address, as we 
have already announced, will be delivered on Wednesday evening 
at 8 o’clock ; and at the first meeting of the General Committee, 
at 2 P.M. on the same day, the Presidents, Vice-presidents, and 
Secretaries of each Section will be appointed. On Thursday 
morning at eleven, the different sections will assemble in the 
rooms appointed for them, for the reading and discussion of re- 
ports and other communications ; and the siltings will be resumed 
at the same hour each day till Tuesday, August $. All further 
information may be obtained by those wishing to be present from 
the local secretaries, 14, Young Street, Edinburgh. 
THE Emperor of Brazil has signified his intention of being 
present at the approaching meeting of the British Association. 
Tue Indian Civil Engineering College at Cooper’s Hill will be 
opened by the Secretary of State and members cf the Council of 
India on Saturday, August 5th. 
WE have great pleasure in recording the inauguration of an 
effort to raise a memorial to the memory of the late Prof. 
William Allen Miller, and desire to call thereto the attention of 
all our readers who appreciate the valuable contributions to 
science for which weare indebted to that eminent chemist. The 
committee consists of Dr. Miller’s fellow-professors at King’s 
College and fellow-labourers in science, with the Rev. Principal 
Barry as chairman, Profs, Bentley and Bloxam, and Messrs. 
Cunningham and Tomlinson as secretaries, and Prof. Guy as 
treasurer. The intention is to raise a fund to be devoted, first, 
to the preparation of a bust or portrait of the late Dr. Miller, 
and, secondly, to the institution of a prize or scholarship in con- 
nection with King’s College, and bearing his name. The ordi- 
nary amount of subscription is to be one guinea, and the list of 
subscribers will be published without any statement of the 
amounts subscribed. 
& Tue International Congress of Prehistoric Anthropology and 
Archzology, which was last year postponed on account of the 
war, will be held this year at Bologna under the presidency of 
Count Gozzadini, and with Prof. Capellini as organising secre- 
tary. The sittings will commence on the Ist of October, and 
will continue during the following week. Mr. John Evans, 
F.R.S., of 65, Old Bailey, has consented to receive the subscrip- 
tions of English members, the amount of which has been fixed 
at ten shillings, and the payment of which entitles the member 
to the volume of proceedings. 
THE President and Council of the Royal Geographical Society 
have addressed a letter to the Vice-Chancellors of the Univer- 
sities of Oxford and Cambridge on the subject of the teaching of 
Physical and Political Geography. They observe that in the 
scheme now under the consideration of the Universities for the 
examination of boys between the ages of sixteen and eighteen 
from all the first-grade schools of England, neither branch of 
geography is included in the list of subjects out of which the 
boys are at liberty to choose any five for examination. They 
point out that geography has always been regarded as an essential, 
though subordinate, element of liberal education, and that it has 
been more and more frequently selected as their subject by can- 
didates who pass the examination of the Science and Art De- 
partment cf South Kensington. They hope that the Universities 
may see reason to repair the omission in the scheme above 



rescue geography from being badly taught in our schools, but 
will raise it to an even higher standard than it has yet attained. 
THE examiners in the Schcol of Law and Modern History at 
Oxford have given notice that at the next examination in 
December, Geography will form an important branch, and that 
papers will be set in the Honours Examination on this subject 
alone. 
By the appointment of Mr. Alexander Herschel to the Pro- 
fessorship of Experimental Philosophy at the Newcastle College 
of Physical Science, a vacancy occurs in the chair of Natural 
Philosophy at Anderson’s University, Glasgow. Applications 
must be sent to the secretary by the 26th of August. 
IN a letter to the Athencum, the widow of the late Prof. De 
Morgan invites those who possess letters or other mementoes of 
the illustrious mathematician to lerd them for the purpose of 
preparing a biography. 
Pror. Marsu, of Yale College, has just started out on a 
second expedition for scientific exploration and discovery in the 
far West, which we trust will be still more fruitful in interesting 
results than the first one which brought to light so many extra- 
ordinary forms of fossil animals, that have been briefly described 
by him in the American Yournal of Science, and referred to from 
time to time in our pages. His party for the present season will 
consist of thirteen besides himself, embracing quite a number of 
his companions of last year, and it is his intention to spend five 
or six months in searching the cretaceous and tertiary strata of 
the Rocky Monntain region and the Pacific coast for vertebrate 
fossil remains. With the experience of the past year and ample 
facilities, he expects to make very extensive collections. 
Tue New York Commissioners of Fish and Fisheries seem 
unwearied in their efforts to stock the waters of the State with 
the best varieties of fish. Among other results obtained by 
them, has been the hatching out during the past season of 
3,000,000 shad eggs, or three times the total catch of the Hudson 
River. They have also bred several millions of white-fish, a 
million of salmon-trout, while of such fish as the black bass, pike, 
perch, and other varieties, they have supplied large numbers to 
those who would take and protect them. The period of their 
appointment will expire in the course of a year; but by that 
time, even if the commission should not be renewed, they will 
have made a most important impression upon the subject of the 
production of the fresh-water food supply. 
CoLLEcTORs of scarce works in Natural History, curiosities, 
stone implements, rare specimens, &c., should not neglect the 
opportunity of inspecting the collection of a well-known collec- 
tor, which will be sold at Thurgood and Giles’s Auction Room, 
7, Argyll Street, Regent Street, on July 31st and three follow- 
ing days ; and will be on view two days before the first day’s 
sale. 
THE old adage about civilisation, or at least science, softening 
manners, is certainly being exemplified just now in France. M. 
Paul de Saint-Victor having given utterance to a violent tirade of 
undying hatred against Prussia, M. de Quesneville thus replies 
in the Aoniteur Scientifique :—‘* L’humanité veut qu’on oublie ; 
Vinterét des peuples, qui sont tous fréres, la raison, le bon sens, 
tout nous dit que dans cette guerre qui vient de finir, la France, 
quia succombé, doit chercher sa revanche, non dans la puissance 
de la force brutale, mais dans sa régénération sociale, et qu'elle 
doit demander 4 son génie de prouver sa superiorité dans les 
sciences, dans les lettres, et dans les arts, et que ce doit etre 1a 
sa seule vengeance. C’est par ]4 que la France est vraiment in- 
vincible, c’est par la qu’elle doit rester la grande nation, la natin 
aimée et préférée, et non dans une lutte d’obus et de chassepots.”” 
Neble words these, and full of the most rare form of genercsily, 
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