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of the illustrious anatomist and discoverer. Together 

 with this volume there was also put into the sarcophagus 

 a memorial bottle cased in lead and containing various 

 details relating to the removal. The bottle included 

 views of the church, before and after the fall of the 

 tower, executed on wood ; a description of the church 

 and the vault, and the time the remains had been in the 

 vault ; several photographic views of the church ; a 

 beautiful photograph of the bust of Harvey ; a scroll of 

 vellum on which was engraved a description of the 

 reasons why the remains had been put into the marble, 

 with the names of all who had taken part in the cere- 

 mony ; and a printed account of the proceedings that 

 were carried out at the second interment on October i8tli, 

 1 883. The sarcophagus was then finally closed by rolling 

 on and cementing down the massive cover or lid. On 

 the western side of the sarcophagus is engraved the 

 following : — 



The remains of William Harvey, 



discoverer of the circulation of the blood, 



were reverentially placed in this sarcophagus 



PA- THE Royal College of Physicians of London 



IN THE YEAR 1 883. 



At the foot arc inscribed the words, 



WILLIAM HARVEY. 

 Born 1578. Died 1657. 



NOTES 

 We are glad to learn that M. Dumas is much better, though 

 it is probable he will have to spend the winter in the south of 

 France. 



The arrangements for beginning work at Ben Nevis Observa- 

 tory will be completed this week, and Mr. Omond will take up 

 his post on the summit in the middle of next week, when ob- 

 servations will be at once begun. The telegraph cable has now 

 been completely laid. 



The Fisheries Exhibition ^sas closed yesterday with much 

 ceremony ; its success as a popular exhibition is almost unpre- 

 cedented, and, as we have pointed out in several articles, some 

 of the exhibits have been of real scientific value. 



We regret to announce the death, last Saturday, of M. Breguet, 

 the well kno'an electrician, meurber of the French Institute and of 

 the Bureau des Longitu Jes. M. Breguet's second son, a promising 

 electrician, died about twelve months ago, and was deeply re- 

 gretted. The death of M. Breguet has been all the more noticed 

 that a few days ago the death of M. Niaudet-Breguet, his 

 nephen-, was announced. M. Niaudet-Breguet was also devoted 

 to electricity. The well-known Breguet firm will not be extin- 

 guished by these multifarious losses, having been made lately a 

 joint stock company. It is one of the oldest in Paris, having 

 been established in 17S3. 



The arrangements for the International Forestry Exhibition 

 which is to be held in Edinburgh next year have been settled. 

 The classification of the exhibits ranges over a wide and inter- 

 esting field. Practical forestry will be illustrated by implements, 

 models of huts, appliances for floating and transporting timber, 

 and wood-w-orking machinery of every description. The depart- 

 ment of forest produce will include a collection of the chief 

 uses to which the raw and the manufactured material of the 

 woods may be applied. The class of scientific forestry will deal 

 with the botany of the forests, forest entomology, preservative 

 processes applied to timber, fossil plants, parasites, and numerous 

 other subjects. Growing specimens of rare and ornamental trees 

 and shrubs, rustic work in arbours, bridges, gates, and seats, 

 and dried specimens of ornamental objects will exemplify the 



division of ornamental forestry. The remaining departments 

 will include pictorial illustrations of the trees, foliage, and 

 scenery of all countries, and the effects of blight, accident, para- 

 sitic growth, and abnormal conditions, together with the litera- 

 ture of forestry, working plans of plantations, and examples of 

 the economic condition of foresters and woodmen. The entries 

 for the Exhibition will close on October 4, 1884. 



Last Thursday, October 28, the three classes of the French 

 Institute held their annual meeting. The addresses were de- 

 livered this year by the members of other classes than the 

 Academy of Sciences. In the evening the members of the 

 Institute held a great banquet by subscription among themselves. 

 This is the first time that the annual meeting has been so 

 solemnised. 



The seventh International Geodetic Conference terminated its 

 labours on October 24, when the acting pi'esident, Col. Ferrero, 

 proclaimed the result of the new election of the permanent com- 

 mittee, as follows: — Lieut. -General Ibanez, Director-General of 

 the Geogi-aphical and Statistical Institute, Madrid, President ; 

 Col. Ferrero, President of the Italian Geodetic Commission, 

 Vice-President ; and Dr. Hirsch, Director of the Observatoi-y at 

 Neuchatel, and Dr. von Oppolzer, Professor of Astronomy at 

 the University of Vienna, Secretaries. Prof. Bauernfeind read 

 his report on refraction, which was followed by a proposal, made 

 by Major Hartl, and approved, to the effect that the Conference 

 expressed a hope that all the European States represented in the 

 Association would institute thorough investigations into terrestrial 

 refraction, in order to ascertain the influences which the dilTerent 

 characteristics of the ground and of the climate exercise Uf on 

 refraction. Prof. Schiaparelli, Director of the Observatory at 

 Milan, read the report of the special committee named to con- 

 sider the proposal made by Prof Fergola regarding systematic 

 observations of latitude, with the intent of verifying the stability 

 of the terrestrial axis of rotation, and ascertaining the movements 

 of the poles ; which report, after some discussion regarding the 

 manner in which the observations should be carried out, was 

 approved. 



Baron Nordenskjold has, in consequence of the attacks 

 which have been made in foreign journals in connection with the 

 unfortunate Dijmphiux expedition, on his theory as to the navlga- 

 bdity of the Kara Sea, telegraphed to Lieut. Hovgaard inquiring 

 whether he con.-idered it would have been possible to reach the 

 Yenisei this summer. Lieut. Hovgaard replied that he was 

 fully convinced that had he been prepared to proceed he could 

 easily have reached Siberia this autumn, and further points out 

 that he could have dons so last ye.iralso had he not, by signals 

 of distress from the I'arna, been compelled to leave the lead 

 along the shore of the W'aigatz Island, which was open as far 

 as the eye could reach, and enter the pack-ice where he was 

 frozen in. 



In No. 3, vol. vi. of the Deutsche Geographische BUilttr is an 

 article by Prof. Bbrgen, in which he discusses the objects pro- 

 posed and the theories entertained by Nordenskjold in connection 

 with his expedition to Greenland. The paper was written 

 before the expedition left. Dr. Borgeu adduces some particulars 

 which make him incline to the supposition that the watershed of 

 Greenland lies rather towards the east than the west. In any case, 

 in consideration of the comparatively short distance of any part of 

 Greenland from the sea, and of its low average temperature. 

 Dr. Bbrgen argues that winds both from the east and the west 

 m ust depo.-it snow everywhere on the weather side of 'i^e moun- 

 tains against which they strike, and so m-"-""" the conditions 

 for the formation of glaciers. T'-=« glaciers, again, must in the 

 course of time diift dov- ■■"° ""= ™"eys a"d the lowest levels, 

 ,he temperaturo - "''eenland even doi\ n to the level of the sea 



