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NATURE 
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A SUBSCRIPTION list has been opened for the purpose of 
having a model of a bust of the late Professor J. Beete Jukes, by 
Mr. Watkins, copied in marble, the marble bust to be placed 
in the Gallery containing the collections of the Geological Sur- 
vey of Ireland, of which survey Mr. Jukes was so long the 
acting director. Subscriptions are limited to a guinea, and only 
about 30/7. remains to be collected out of the 70/. required. 
THE death is announced of M. Henry Testot de Ferry, of 
Bussiéres, near Macon, the author of more than one treatise on 
archzeo-geology. The work by which he is best known is an 
illustrated quarto pamphlet, ‘‘L’Anciennete de I’homme dans le 
Maconnais,” published in 1867, which gives an account of some 
of his discoveries of flint implements both in caverns and in 
superficial deposits in the neighbourhood of Macon. He died at 
the early age of 43. 
A SCIENTIFIC and literary society has just been formed at 
Winchester. The first meeting was held in the Hall of the 
Mechanics’ Institute on Thursday evening last, at which an 
inaugural address was delivered by the Rev. C. A. Johns, of 
Winton House. Mr. Johns, in his address, which is published 
in one of the local newspapers, reviewed briefly some of the 
latest scientific discoveries, and suggested several subjects of 
inquiry within the range of the members of the new society. It 
appears that the microscope is one of the principal instruments of 
research with the Winchester naturalists, and hints were thrown 
out how this instrument might be usefully employed in this 
locality for the general promotion of science. In particular, a 
careful examination of the chalk of the neighbourhood was re- 
commended for the purpose of determining to what extent it 
differed from, or was identical with, the Porcupine dredgings. 
After the address the meeting set to work to frame laws for the 
government of the society. Some discussion arose with regard 
to the name of the society, and the admission of ladies to the 
meetings. It was ultimately decided not to allow ladies to 
attend the ordinary monthly meetings, and the name agreed upon 
was ‘‘The Winchester and Hampshire Scientific and Literary 
Society.” Mr. Johns was elected president, Dr. Neal treasurer, 
and Mr. Angall secretary; and ten other gentlemen consented to 
act with them as managing committee. The use of a large room 
was kindly offered to the society by Mr. Savage, and as the 
number of members is already 50, there seems every probability 
that the society will flourish. 
WE learn from the Viennese correspondent of the Standard 
Newspaper that Karl Vogt is giving a course of six lectures at a 
Roman Catholic College in Vienna, on the Primitive Condition 
of Man. The first lecture was attended, we are told, by a crowded 
and highly respectable audience. 
Two Russian travellers, MM. Ewast and Logist, have applied 
to their Government for a concession to work some gold fields 
which they say they have discovered in Lapland. They passed 
a month in the district in question last summer. It is almost un- 
inhabitable, being without vegetation of any kind, and the travel_ 
lers were obliged to leave it, after obtaining nearly 60 ounces of 
fine gold, because they had exhausted all their provisions, and 
none were to be had on the spot. 
Land and Water announces that Mr. Frank Buckland, In- 
spector of English Salmon Fisheries, and Mr, Archibald Young, 
Commissioner of Scotch Salmon Fisheries, have been appointed 
by the Government to inquire into the condition of the salmon 
fisheries of Scotland. 
ACCORDING to the British Medical Fournal the annual salaries 
of the professors in the Universities of Austria are in future to be 
uniform—tI, 800 florins, with an increase of 200 florins every fifth 
year. Hitherto, the rate of salary has been very various ; being 
at Innsbruck and Lemberg 945 florins, in Vienna 1,680, in 
Prague 1,635 ; with a decennial increase of 300 florins. 
THE Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland have decided on 
holding an extra spring show in March for hyacinths and other 
spring flowers. 
THE whales which have been lately stranded on our own shores, 
one at Longniddry in the Firth of Forth, another at Langstone 
Harbour, near Portsmouth, and others elsewhere, have given rise 
to a discussion which promises to become interesting. Mr. 
Flower holds to the Longniddry whale being either Balenoptera 
muscilus, or B. Sibbaldii; while Professor Tummer of Edinburgh, 
together with other eminent Scotch naturalists, incline to regard 
it as anundescribed species. There is, we are glad to learn, every 
reason to hope that the skeleton will be preserved, in which case 
the species will be finally set at rest. The measurements of the 
whale are given by Land and Water as follows :—Extreme length 
S2ft., girth 34ft., length round jaws 39ft., from front of lower jaw 
to back of mouth 17ft. gin., breadth across jaws 7ft. gin., greatest 
expanse of tail 15ft. gin., length of flipper r1ft., average length 
of baleen 30in. to 33in. ; length of calf 2oft. 
Ir appears from the reports of the Viennese meteorologists 
on the storm which broke over the Austrian capital and other 
parts of the empire, that it was accompanied by a very remark- 
able variation in the atmospheric pressure at different points 
close to each other. Thus, at Lesina, the pressure was 13°5 
millimetres, and at Lemberg 10°7 millimetres, under the normal 
pressure. The greatest variation was in the district round 
Vienna, where the storm was most violent. Between Bludenz 
and Ischl there was a difference of 1 millimetre in 62 German 
miles, between Ischl and Vienna of one in 34, and between 
Vienna and Lemberg of one in 11 only. In Northern Europe 
the barometer was low, and the thermometer high ; in Southern 
Europe it was the reverse. 
THE Lyttelton Times of June last gives a report of a meeting 
of the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, N.Z., at which the 
President, Dr. Haast, F.R.S., read a paper on the Saurian 
Remains lately discovered by Mr. T. Cockburn Hood, F.G.S. 
in that province, and taken by him to Europe. The paper was 
accompanied by specimens and drawings: the latter were by Mr. 
Triphook, and represented the most valuable of the specimens. 
They differed from other saurian remains, and consisted of large 
slabs of stone enclosing the upper and lower jaws and part of 
the skull of a large saurian reptile of the Amphiczlian sub-order 
of crocodilia, to which genera Teleosaurus belonged. It was cal- 
culated to have been from 18 to 20 feet in length. The author 
also stated that in Mr. Hood’s collection there were a great many 
vertebrae, in one specimen fourteen dorsal vertebrze still connected 
together, which, from their bi-concave character, might have 
belonged to the same reptile, the impression of whose skull he 
had exhibited. There were also many bones belonging to 
Plesiosaurus, of which the principal ones formed part of the 
paddles or fins of those marine reptiles. The paper concluded 
by stating that many other bones of crocodilian reptiles were 
included in this collection, showing that New Zealand was at 
one time, like parts of the northem hemisphere, the abode of 
numerous large reptiles. 
WE lear from the Zimes of Saturday last, that Canon Greens 
well has recently been prosecuting his researches in the prehistoric 
tumuli with great success. The barrows examined are two very 
large round ones near Bridlington: they contained an unusual 
number of secondary interments, accompanied by a fine series of 
implements, pottery, &c. These tumuli possess a special point 
of interest in reference to the apparent displacement of the 
primary interment. We await with interest Canon Greenwell’s 
report on this point. It is to be hoped that the numerous human 
remains discovered will be described by Dr. Thurnham, or some 
other competent anatomist skilled in craniology. 
