Nov.' 19, 1874] 



NATURE 



57 



The next Triennial Prize of 300/., under the will of the late 

 Sir Astley P. Cooper, Birt., will be awarded to the author of 

 the best essay or treatise on " The Anatomy, Physiology, and 

 Patho'ogy of the Sympathetic Nervous System." 



We learn from Hansa of the 15th inst. that the following 

 amounts have been included in the estimites for 1S75, presented 

 to the Imperial German Parliament for the service of the 

 " Deutsche Seewarte " : — 



A. — Salaries and Remuneration;. 



1. Central Station 39,000 marks 



2. Branch Stations ... 11,000 ,, 



B. — Contingent Expenses. 



1. Central Station 20,000 ,, 



2. Branch St.ations 4,800 ,, 



Total 74,800 marks 



which, at the rate of twenty marks to the sovereign, amounts to 

 3,700/. Two new departments are to be added to that esta- 

 blished at Hamburg for Marine M-^teorology, viz., for Storm- 

 warnings and Magnetism. 



A IIONG Kong telegram of the i6th inst. states that the 

 C/iMiiger had arrived there from Australia. 



We hear that a Horticultural Club is about 'to be formed 

 in London, and the preliminary steps that have been taken pro- 

 mise well. 



The last number of the Gardener's Chroni-.h states that a 

 specimen of Aralia skboldi at Kew is now in bloom, and that a 

 new garden plant, Raphidophora lancifolia, is now in cultivation 

 in this country. 



A SLIGHT shock of earthquake w.as felt in Carnarvonshire and 

 Anglesea on Sundiy morning. 



From a private letter dated Mauritius, Oct. 15, we learn that 

 Lord Lindsay had not yet arrived at that island, that the Ger- 

 mans were expected on the 25th, that the Dutch were at their 

 post at Bourbon, and the English the same at Rodriguez. 



The Earl of Derby has been elected by the Edinburgh students 

 as their Lord Rector, and Mr. Disra:li has been re-elected by 

 the iit^eniiiadolescenles of Glasgow University. 



Every term at Dulwich College a course of scientific evening 

 lectures is given, open to the students and their friends. This 

 term, for the first time, the applications for tickets have exceeded 

 the accommodation of the lecture theatre. The present course 

 is on Geology, by Prof. Harry G. Seeley, the titles of the lec- 

 tures being, " The Origin and Internal Structure of the Earth," 

 " The Origin and Succession of the Strata," " The Succession 

 of Life on the Earth," and " The Influence of Geological Pheno- 

 mena on Men and Animals." 



The Committee of Directors of the Crystal Palace Company's 

 School of Art, Science, and Literature have made arrangements 

 for the delivery of successive short series of lectures on special 

 subjec!s by gentlemen of eminence in art, science, and literature. 

 These lectures will be purely educational in character, and, as 

 far as possible, complete in themselves, but v/ill not in any way 

 supplant the permanent private classes, to which they are designed 

 to be accessory. They are intended to stimulate independent 

 thought, and to lead the student to a conception of ;ome of the 

 ulterior aims of the studies she pursues. They will be delivered 

 in the largest class-room of the school, generally on Fridays, in 

 the afternoon ; and the most moderate fee that is possible in each 

 case will be fixed. Ladies only will be admitted. The first 

 course will be of six lectures on "The Interpretation of Nature 

 as it relates to Man and his Education," by the Rev. Chas. 

 Pritchard, M. A., F.R.S., Savilian Professor of Astronomy in 



the University of Oxford. Fridays — November 13, 20, 27; 

 December 4, it, iS; to commence each day at half-past 

 three. 



At Emmanuel College, Cambridge, there will be an exami- 

 nation for open scholarships in natural science, commencing the 

 6th of April, 1S75. There is no limit as to age, but all candi- 

 dates will have to satisfy the examiners that they possess such a 

 knowledge of mathematics and classics as will enable them to 

 pr.ss the Previous Examination. The subjects of examin.'-tion 

 arc botany, chemistry, chemical physics, geology and mine- 

 ralogy, zoology, comparative anatomy, and physiology. Candi- 

 dates must send their names, with copy of register of birth and a 

 certificate of good conduct from some M.A. of the University, to 

 the tutor of Emmanuel, on or before March 31. A candidate 

 for a scholarship may also be eligible without further exami- 

 nation for a scholarship at Christ's or Sidney Colleges, in default 

 of properly qualified candidates at those colleges. 



A JOINT examination will be held at Clare College and Gon- 

 ville and Caius College, Cambridge, on Tuesday, March 16, 

 1S75, and three following days, when tvi'O scholarships for natural 

 S-iences will be offered for competition to students intending to 

 commence residence in October 1S75, each of the value of 60/. 

 per annum, tenable for two years, but subject to extension or 

 exchange for scholarships of longer tenure. Candidates are 

 required to send their names, with certificates of age and testi- 

 moni.als of good conduct, to one or other of the respective 

 tutors, the Rev. N. M. Ferrers, tutor of Caius, or the Rev. W. 

 Riynes, tutor of Clare, stating at which college they prefer to 

 be elected ;' but if not elected at such college it will be under- 

 stood that they are candidates also at the other college. Fur- 

 ther particulars may be obtained on application to the tutor of 

 Clare or the tutor of Caius. 



There was a meeting of the members of the Cambridge Uni- 

 versity Senate on the 12th inst., to discuss the report issued last 

 June of the Board of Natural Science Studies, recommending 

 alterations in the examination for the Natural Science Tripos. 

 Its main recommendations consist of a division of the Tripos. 

 The recommendations met with the unanimous approval of the 

 Senate. 



The following appears in the Times: — Where the excavations 

 for laying the water-pipes are being made near Rideau Hall, on 

 the grounds of the Governor-General of Canada, the workmen 

 have made a strange geological discovery. It is a stratum of 

 fossil rock seveial feet tliick, containing the most accurate and 

 beautiful petrified winged insects. There are some like butter, 

 flies, with the deUcate fibre of the wings in a most peifect state 

 of preservation. Seveial persons in New Edinburgh have 

 secured excellent specimens. 



On Thursday, Nov. 5, the members of the Geological Society 

 Club dined together at the Pall Mall Restaurant, to celebrate the 

 fifdeth year of the meetings of the Club. There was a good 

 gathering of the members, and among them were the Earl of 

 Enniskillen, Sir Charles Lyell, Profs. Huxley and Ramsay, Mr. 

 Godwin Austen, Mr. Prestwich, Capt. Gallon, &c. ; some of the 

 past retired members were also present. Letters apologising 

 for absence were read from Mr. Jesse Watts Russell, an original 

 member, the Duke of Devonshire, Earl of Selkirk, Lord Over- 

 stone, Mr. Darwin, Sir C. Fox Bunbury, and others. The 

 president of the Geological Society, Mr. J. Evans, took the 

 chair, and the vice-chair was occupied by Mr. Mylne, the 

 treasurer of the Club ; some toasts were given, and Sir Ch?'les 

 Lyell, one of the only two original members now living, re- 

 sponding in the name of the Club, took occasion to remark that 

 great as had often been the differences of opinion in the Geo- 

 logical Society from the lime of Buckland, Conybeate, De la 



