Suly 7, 1870] 
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Ir is with very great pleasure we state that an English friend 
has just received a letter from Baron Liebig, in his own hand- 
writing, dated Munich, the Ist inst. Although still very weak, 
he is now able to get into his garden for some little time daily. 
If he continues to progress as he is now doing he proposes going 
to Switzerland, to the Engadine, in three weeks, where it is hoped 
he may soon become quite strong. 
DeaATH has been busy lately among the more eminent mem- 
bers of the medical profession. We have this week to record the 
decease of Sir James Clark, Bart., M.D., F.R.S., chief 
physician to Her Majesty, which took place on the 29th ult., in 
the 82nd year of hisage. Sir James had held the appointment 
of physician to several members of the Royal Family, was the 
author of several works on climate and on consumption, and was 
a member of the Senate of the University of London. He 
attended the poet, John Keats, during his last illness at Rome 
in 1821. 
THE Radcliffe Observer at Oxford, the Rev. R. Main, 
has just issued a second Radcliffe catalogue, containing 2,386 
stars deduced from observations extending from 1854 to 1861. 
The well-known care taken by the observer in the reduc- 
tion of observations, and the admirable instruments in the 
observatory under his charge, render this volume a very valuable 
addition to our astronomical libraries. 
WE have received from Mr. Van Voorst a most beautiful 
book, which every scientific man in this and other lands will 
be glad to possess. Its contents are sixteen portraits of eminent 
scientific men, photographed by Dr. Wallich, the well-known 
naturalist, and with a skill quite unsurpassed, so far as we 
know, in any previous attempts. Dr. Wallich states that his 
aim has been to supply likenesses that shall be both characteris- 
tic, free from some errors in taste but too frequently manifest in 
photographic portraiture, and trustworthy as records of individual 
feature and expression ; and in all these points the likenesses are 
admirable. We could hope that the success of this volume 
would be such as to induce Dr. Wallich to enlarge his scientific 
series. We may add that the present portraits are those of 
General Sir E. Sabine, Sir R. I. Murchison, Profs. Owen, 
Bentham, Huxley, Tyndall, Stokes, Ramsay, and Williamson, 
Dr. Hooker, Sir C. Lyell, Sir W. Logan, Viscount Walden, 
. the Rev. G. B. Reade, and Messrs. Lassell and Prestwich. 
Ar the meeting of the French Academy of Sciences on the 
27th ult. the section of Anatomy and Zoology presented the fol- 
lowing list of candidates for the place of correspondent vacant by 
the death of Prof. Carus, In the first rank, Prof. Brandt of St. 
Petersburg ; in the second rank and in alphabetical order MM. 
Bischoff (Munich), Darwin, Huxley, Hyrtl (Vienna), Leuckart 
(Leipzig), Loven (Stockholm), Steenstrup (Copenhagen), and 
Vogt (Geneva). The election was to take place on Monday 
last. 
A CoMMITTEE of the House of Commons having reported 
in favour of the establishment of the national natural history 
museums on the Thames Embankment, Mr. Beresford Hope in- 
quired, on Monday evening last, whether it was the intention of 
the Government to carry out this recommendation. The Chancel- 
lor of the Exchequer replied that such an appropriation would 
deprive the ratepayers of a large portion of the land which was 
to be laid out as public gardens, and therefore Her Majesty’s 
Government were not prepared to ask Parliament to carry out 
the recommendations of the committee. We are very glad to 
hear that the Government does intend to insist on so large a 
portion of the Embankment being rescued from the builders. 
. 
But have the interests of the ratepayers been so jealously guarded 
when other claims than those of science were placed in com- 
petition with them ? 
Art the D.Sc, examination of the University of London, just 
held, candidates passed in the following branches :—Branch 
I.—Mathematics, John Hopkinson, Trinity College, Cambridge, 
and Owens. Branch I[V.—Inorganic and Organic Chemistry or 
Mineralogy : James Bottomley, B.A., Owens College; David 
Watson, Royal School of Mines; John Watts, private study. 
Branch V.—Organic and Inorganic Chemistry : James Campbell 
Brown, Royal College of Chemistry and private study ; Charles 
Romley Alder Wright, Owens College. Branch VIII.—Physi- 
cal Optics ; Heat ; Acoustics : John Hopkinson, Trinity College, 
Cambridge, and Owens. The D.Sc. examination is intended by 
the University to be the highest possible test of proficiency in 
some one particular branch of science, and can be taken in any 
one of sixteen different branches. It is encouraging to find that 
not only havea larger number passed the examination than in any 
previous year, but that it has been taken in branches in which 
there has hitherto been no candidate ; and moreover, that one 
gentleman has passed in two distinct branches» Owens College 
may well be proud of the number of successful candidates it has 
sent up. 
AT a meeting of the Council of the Royal School of Mines, 
held on Saturday, July 2nd, the following awards were made :— 
Two Royal Scholarships of 152. each for first year’s students, to 
W. H. Greenwood and F. C. Milford; H.R.H. the Duke of 
Cornwall’s Scholarship to P. C. Gillchrist ; the Royal Scholar- 
ship of 25/7. to R. R. Atkinson; the Dela Beche medal and 
prize of books to W. Gowland ; and the Director’s medal and 
prize of books to P. C. Gillchrist. The Edward Forbes medal 
and prize of books were not competed for this year. The title 
of Associate of the Royal School of Mines was conferred upon 
the undermentioned gentlemen :—In the Division of Mining— 
Messrs. William Gowland, Archibald Liversidge, and H. J. 
Renwicke. In the Division of Metallurgy—William Gowland, 
Dillon, Liversidge, A. W. Bickerton, F. W. Bayley, and T. 
Jones. In the Division of Geology—W, Johnson Sollas. 
THE examination for women above eighteen years of age, 
conducted by the University of Cambridge, has been proceeding 
during the present week, at three centres, London, Manchester, 
and Rugby. The number of entries last year was thirty-six, this 
year they have increased to eighty-four, and we are glad to ob- 
serve that there are candidates in several branches of natural 
science which were not touched last year, among them Zoology, 
Botany, and some of the higher branches of Mathematics. 
THE Atheneum states that the University of Vienna has de- 
cided to admit women to all the advantages of its medical 
school, and that two French students have already availed them- 
selves of the privilege. 
A TELEGRAM from Athens speaks of an earthquake which has 
taken place in the island of Santorin, The town is a mass of 
ruins, and seyeral small islets have been submerged. 
Dr. PETERMANN announces in the Cologne Gazette that the 
Warag, one of the best steamers of the Russian fleet, left 
Helsingfors on the 7th of June, under the command of Captain 
Kramer, on a scientific expedition to Nova Zembla and Spitz- 
bergen. The MWarag is to proceed zi@ Bergen, Hammerfest, 
and Vardo. It will be accompanied by two or three steamers 
from Archangel, with the Grand-duke Alexis and several 
eminent scientific men on board. ‘This expedition is to be the 
precursor to a more important one which is being prepared by 
the Russian Geographical Society, and will proceed next year to 
the North Pole. 
