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few ; but still there are other sources from which grants 
may well be made to assist really promising students in 
attaining so desirable an end; and it is to be hoped that 
it may be regarded as a legitimate and not unfrequent 
outlet for public or private grants, to enable young men, 
who will ultimately engage in teaching, towards the 
attainment of experience which must always be of value 
to them in the exercise of their profession. 
F. O. BOWER 
NOTES 
THE following is the list of Fellows elected into the Royal 
Society on Friday last, June 4:—Shelford Bidwell, M.A., 
William Colenso, F.L.S., Harold B. Dixon, F.C.S., Major- 
Gen. Edward Robert Festing, R.E., Andrew Russell Forsyth, 
M.A., Prof. A. H. Green, M.A., Prof. Victor Horsley, 
F.R.C.S., Raphael Meldola, F.R.A.S., Philip H. Pye-Smith, 
M.D., Henry Chamberlaine Russell, B.A., Adam Sedgwick, 
M.A., Prof. W. Cawthorne Unwin, B.Sc., Robert Warington, 
F.C.S., Capt. William James Lloyd Wharton, R.N., Henry 
Wilde. 
ARRANGEMENTS are being made by the officers of several 
French Societies for holding an International Congress at 
Biarritz for discussing papers upon climatology, mineral and 
thermal springs, and allied subjects. A letter has been received 
from the Foreign Office transmitting copies of documents, and 
stating that the French Government is anxious that members of 
scientific Societies in this country should assist. The co-opera- 
tion of the Royal Meteorological Society has also been specially 
asked by the President of the Congress, Dr. Durand Fardel. 
The sittings at Biarritz will occupy the first week in October, 
and be followed by a three weeks’ tour to the principal watering- 
places of Southern France. Fellows of the Royal Meteorologi- 
cal Society will be allowed to travel over all French railways at 
half price. For further particulars apply to the Assistant Secre- 
tary of the Society. 
Tue Council of the Society of Arts have awarded the Society’s 
silver medals to the following 1eaders of papers during the 
Session, 1885-86:—To Prof. Francis Elgar, LL.D., for his 
paper on the load-lines of ships ; to Henry Davey, for his paper 
on machinery in mines; to Prof. W. C. Unwin, for his paper 
on the employment of autographic records in testing materials ; 
to C. V. Boys, for his paper on calculating machines ; to Prof. 
Leonard Waldo, D.Sc., for his paper on watch-making by 
machinery ; to John Mackenzie, for his paper on Bechnanaland 
and Austral Africa ; to Edward Combes, C.M.G., for his paper 
on the industries and commerce of New South Wales; to G. 
Gordon Hake, for his paper on Cyprus since the British occupa- 
tion; to Prof. W. N. Hartley, F.R.S., for his paper on photo- 
graphy and the spectroscope in their application to chemical 
analysis ; to Prof. R. Meldola, for his paper on the scientific 
development of the coal-tar colour industry; to B. H. Baden 
Powell, C.I.E., for his paper on Indian manufactures from a 
practical point of view ; to Capt. Richard Carnac Temple, for 
his paper on the every-day life of Indian women. Thanks were 
voted to the following members of the Council for the papers 
read by them :—To Capt. Douglas Galton, D.C.L., C.B., 
F.R.S., for his paper on results of experiments on mechanical 
motors for tramways made by the Commission at the Antwerp 
Exhibition ; to W. H. Preece, F.R.S., for his paper on domestic 
electric lighting. 
THE Society of Arts conversazione will be held, by permission 
of the Royal Commission, at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 
South Kensington, on Friday, July 16 next. 
Mr. TaLrourD ELy has resigned the Secretaryship of Uni- 
versity College, London. 
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THE Russian Geographical Society has awarded this year its 
great gold medal to M. Yurgens for his remarkable work as chief 
of the Arctic Meteorological Station at the mouth of the Lena. 
The Medal of Count Liitke has been awarded to Col, Pyevtsoff 
for his most valuable account, full of new and interesting infor- 
mation, of his journey in N.W. Mongolia and Northern China, 
published, with a map, in the fifth volume of the West Siberian 
Branch of the Society. Great gold medals have been awarded 
to M. Dmitrevsky for his annotated translation of Otano Kitoro’s 
work on Corea, and M. Tereshkevitch for his statistical descrip- 
tion of the Government of Poltava. Small gold medals were 
awarded, to Prof. Lenz for his work in the capacity of President 
of the Physical Geography Section of the Society ; to M. Fuss, 
for his calculations of the great levelling through Siberia ; to the 
Director of the Tiflis Observatory, M. Milberg, for his magnetical 
observations carried on in connection with those of the Polar 
stations ; and to M. Mainoff, for his work on the customary law 
of the Mordovians. Several silver medals were distributed to 
MM. Gedeonoff, Fedoroff, Krasnoff, and Ignatieff for astro- 
nomical, geological, and botanical works; to several persons 
who have sent observations on thunderstorms and rains, as also 
for various ethnographical and statistical researches. 
Tue Town Council of Banff, along with the Council of the 
Banffshire Field Club and Office-Bearers of the Banff Literary 
Society, have formed themselves into a General Committee (with 
power to add to their number) to promote the subscription of a 
fund for the erection of a memorial in Banff to the memory of 
the late Mr. Thomas Edward, A.L.S., ‘‘The Scottish Natu- 
ralist.” ‘The Committee feel sure it will be the desire of many 
throughout the whole nation to contribute to this fund, and to 
combine to make the memorial worthy of the universal admira- 
tion and respect entertained for Mr. Edward. In order to afford 
full opportunity for this, it is proposed to add to the Committee 
ladies and gentlemen throughout the various parts of the country 
who so appreciate Mr. Edward’s life and work as to be willing 
to interest themselves in providing some substantial and suitable 
perpetuation of his memory, Communications should be 
addressed to the Interim Secretary, Mr. John Allan, Town Clerk 
of Banff. 
Tue Prince of Wales, considering that the rates of admission 
to the Colonial and Indian Exhibition at South Kensington 
should be brought within the means of all classes residing in the 
Metropolitan area, is making arrangements with the Railway 
Companies and other bodies in a position to co-operate in the 
organisation of a scheme whereby every working man, woman, 
and child will have an opportunity of visiting the Exhibition at 
greatly reduced prices on every week-day except Wednesday 
from the middle of August until the close of the Exhibition, 
Arrangements for enabling the working classes of the provinces 
to visit the Exhibition have been for some time in operation, 
under his Royal Highness’s direction. 
Tue first of the conferences convened by the Geologists’ Asso- 
ciation on ‘* The Mineral Resources of the Colonies and India,’’ 
was held at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition on Saturday 
afternoon (June §), when a lecture was delivered by Prof. V. 
Ball, F.R.S., on ‘*The Mineral Resources of India and 
Burmah.” The discussion brought out the urgent need for 
reform of the mining laws of India, and the following resolution, 
proposed by the chairman (Sir R. Temple), seconded by the 
Duke of Manchester, and supported by the lecturer and others, 
was unanimously adopted:—‘‘This Conference having had 
under its review the mineral resources of India and the obstacles 
to development and exploitation of the same through the want 
of suitable or sufficient mining laws, respectfully urges upon the 
Secretary of State for India the desirability of regulating or 
revising the regulations for the working of mines in British India, 
including Burmah, and for the protection of mining interests 
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