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North America. He examined all the principal collections of 
shells in the United States and Canada, and especially those made 
in the deep-sea explorations of the Gulf of Florida and Gulf of 
St. Lawrence. The former was in the charge of Dr. Stimpson 
at Chicago ; and Mr. Jeffreys was entrusted with specimens (some 
of them unique) of all the species which appeared to him the 
same as certain undescribed species dredged by him in the depths 
of the East Atlantic during the Porcupine expeditions of 1869 
and 1870. These specimens may be the only ones saved from 
the Museum of the Academy of Sciences at Chicago, which it 
is greatly feared was destroyed by the late deplorable confla- 
gration. Several species of North American land and fresh- 
water shells will also be found to inhabit the eastern hemisphere, 
although bearing different names. Through the kindness of Prof. 
Baird, Mr. Jeffreys had an opportunity of dredging on the coast 
of New England in a Government steamer ; and he everywhere 
received great hospitality and attention. He particularly acknow- 
ledges his obligation to Mr. Anthony, Prof. Agassiz, and Prof. 
Shaler, of Cambridge ; the Hon. S. Powel, of Newport, R.I. ; 
Prof. Baird, of Washington ; Prof. J. C. Draper, of New York ; 
Mr. Binney, of Burlington, N.J. ; Dr. Isaac Lea, of Philadel- 
phia; Dr. Stimpson and Mr, Blatchford, of Chicago ; and to 
Principal Dawson and Sir W. E. Logan, of Montreal. 
Les Mondes records the death of M. Henri Lecocq, Professor 
in the Faculty of Sciences at Clermont Ferrand, eminent both 
as a botanist and geologist. THis lifehas been spent in encourag- 
ing and assisting the cultivation of the sciences to which he 
especially devoted himself ; and by his will he has devoted his 
property to the same end. He leaves to the town where he 
resided the sum of 150,000 francs, of which 50,000 is bestowed 
on the botanic garden established by him, 50,090 to the main- 
tenance of water-supply and fountains, and 50,000 to the establish- 
ment of covered markets. M. Lecocq leaves besides to the town 
all his collections of natural history, zoology, botany, geology, 
and mineralogy, as well as all the cabinets which contained 
them. 
Mr. ALFRED HENRY GARROD, scholar in natural science of 
St. John’s College, Cambridge, and formerly Demonstrator in 
Physiology to Prof. Humphry, has been appointed Prosector to 
the Zoological Society of London. There is probably no other 
post in the world which affords opportunities for the study and 
advancement of animal physiology and comparative anatomy 
equal to those enjoyed by the possessor of this office, owing to the 
extraordinary extent of the Society’s vivarium in the Regent’s 
Park. Mr. Garrod, we understand, will not enter upon his 
duties until the beginning of the new year. 
Mr. Davipson, of King William’s College, Isle of Man, has 
been elected a Scholar in Natural Science at Sidney Sussex Col- 
lege, Cambridge. 
A SCHOLARSHIP is announced at Balliol College, Oxford, on 
the foundation of Miss H. Brakenbury, ‘‘ for the encouragement 
of natural science,” of the value of 7o/. for three years. This 
is open to all candidates who have not exceeded eight terms from 
matriculation. The examination begins on Tuesday, November 
21. Papers will be sentin (1) Mechanics and Physics, (2) Che- 
mistry, (3) Physiology, but no candidate will be expected to take 
up more than two subjects at the most. There will also bea 
practical examination in the above subjects. Further information 
can be obtained from the tutors, 
WE understand that the next number of the Contemporary 
Review will contain an important article by Prof. Huxley in com- 
ment on some portions of Mr. Mivart’s ‘*Genesis of Species.” 
THE following are among the Publishers’ announcements of 
scientific works for the approaching season :—From Messrs. Long- 
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n.ans :—The Royal Institution, its Founder and its First Professors 
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by Dr. Bence Jones, Hon. Sec. ; Spectrum Analysis in its Applica- 
tion to Terrestrial Substances and Physical Constitution of the 
Heavenly Bodies, familiarly explained by Dr. H. Schellen, with 
Notes by William Huggins, LL.D, D.C.L., F.R.S, 1vol. 8vo. 
with coloured plates and other illustrations; a Smaller Star 
Atlas, for the use of schools and junior students of Astronomy, 
by R. A. Proctor, B.A., F.R.A.S., in twelve circular coloured maps 
and two index maps, with an introduction showing how the stars 
may be recognised and their motions studied and understood ; 
Popular Lectures on S -ientifi- Subjects, by Prof. Helmholtz, trans- 
lated by H. Debus ; Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, 
being an abridgement of the late Dr. Pereira’s Materia Medica, 
and comprising all the medicines of the British Pharmacopceia, 
together with such others as are frequently ordered in prescrip- 
tions, and required for the use of medical practitioners, edited by 
Robert Bentley. From Mr. Murray :—The Principles of 
Geology, or the Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants 
considered as illustrative of Geology, by Sir Charles Lyell, Bart., 
F.R.S., 11th edition, thoroughly revised, illustrations, Vol. 1 ; 
The Metallurgy of Copper, Zinc, and Brass, including Descriptions 
of Fuel, Wood, Peat, Coal, Charcoal, Coke, Fire-Clays, by John 
Percy, I’. R.S., new edition, revised, many illustrations. From 
Messrs. Macmillans :—A Treatise on the Origin, Nature, and 
Varieties of Wine, being a complete manual of Viticulture and 
(Enology, by J. L. W.- Thudichum, M.D., and August Dupré, 
with numerous illustrations ; the Ministry of Nature, by the Rev. 
Hugh Macmillan; a series of Science Primers, under the joint 
editorship of Profs. Huxley, Rosco>, and Balfour Stewart ; the 
following will be ready about Christmas : Introduction, by Prof. 
Huxley ; Chemistry, by Prof. Roscoe; Physical Science, by 
Prof. Balfour Stewart. From Messrs. Bell and Daldy :—Alpine 
Plants, containing more than one hundred coloured illustrations 
of the most striking and beautiful Alpine flowers, with descine- 
tions by D. Wooster. From Messrs. Deighton, Bell, and Co :— 
The Desert of the Exodus, Journeys on Foot in the Wilderness 
of the Forty Years’ Wanderings, by E. H. Palmer, M.A., Fellow 
of St. John’s College, with maps and illustrations from photo- 
graphs and drawings taken on the spot by the Sinai Survey Ex- 
pedition, and C. F. Tyrwhitt Drake. From Mr. Goodwin :—A 
new and greatly-improved edition of What are the Stars? a 
treatise on Astronomy, by Mary Storey Lyle. From Messrs. 
Rivingtons :—Elementary Statics, by Hamblin Smith, 3rd 
edition, revised and corrected ; Geometrical Conic Sections, by 
G. Richardson, M.A., Assistant-Master at Winchester College, 
and late Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge; Analytical 
Geometry of Two Dimensions, by H. E. Oakley, M.A., late 
Fellow and Senior Mathematical Lecturer of Jesus College, 
Cambridge, H.M. Inspector of Schools. From Messrs. Cassells :— 
Elementary Astronomy, by Richard A.Proctor, B.A., F.R.A.S., 
with nearly fifty original illustrations ; Elementary Geography, 
by Prof. D. T. Ansted, M.A., F.R.S., Examiner in Physical 
Geography in the Department of Science and Art, illustrated 
with original diagrams. 

WE are glad to learn that the Rev. E. Smith and Mr. Irving 
are busy with a new and complete flora of the neighbourhood of 
Nottingham, which we hope will ultimately include the whole of 
that county. The work is being done under the auspices of the 
Literary and Philosophical Society of Nottingham. 
Dr. PETERMANN has written to several German papers to 
announce the success of a new German Arctic Expedition. 
According to a telegram received by him a few days ago, and 
since confirmed, Lieutenants Weyprecht and Payer have pene- 
trated to 79° N. latitude, and have actually discovered the 
open Arctic Sea, which has been so long searched for, They 
employed a Norwegian sloop, and penetrated northwards be- 
tween Spitzbergen and Nova Zembla, and they report an open 
sea from 42° to 60° E. lorgitude, and that but li:tle ice was 
