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\Oct. 24, 1872 



Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in tliat University. He 

 is merely delivering a course of lectures at the request of the 

 Linacre Professor, vi-hich the Professor has hitherto been in the 

 habit of delivering himself. 



By a m.ijority of two to one the managers have decided to 

 remit the question of the admission of lady medical students to 

 the practice of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary to a committee, 

 to report "whether, and to what extent, it is practicable to give 

 instruction to females within the wards of the Infirmary." The 

 minority desired that arrangements should at once be made for 

 the instruction of lady students. Apropos of this subject, a 

 moiety of the 1,000/. recently promised by Mr. Walter Thom- 

 son to the funds of the Committee for securing a complete 

 Medical Education of Women in Edinburgh has been forwarded 

 to the Executive Committee ; (l) in payment of expenses that 

 have to be incurred in prosecuting the claim of women to the 

 highest medical education obtainable in the University of Edin- 

 burgh and elsewhere ; and (2) in assisting or encouraging lady 

 students who have been subjected to extra charges by the ob- 

 stacles interposed in Edinburgh. 



A NEW University is to be opened on November I, at Klau- 

 senbwrg, the capital of Transylvania. 



Mr. Thomas Howard, of the King and Queen Iron Works, 

 Rotherhithe, who was for 37 years an Associate of the Institute 

 uf Civil Engineers, has bequeathed to it the sum of 500/., free 

 of legacy duty, which sum he has, by will, directed "to be in- 

 vested, and the interest thereof to be applied in such manner and 

 under such conditions and instructions as the Council of the said 

 Institution may think most expedient, for the purpose of pre- 

 senting, periodically, a prize or medal to the author of a treatise 

 on any of the uses or properties of iron, or to the inventor of 

 some new and valuable process relating thereto, such author or 

 inventor being a member, graduate, or associate of the said 

 institution." 



The following are among the publishers' announcements for 

 the coming season : — By Mr. Murray : — The Expression of the 

 Emotions in Man and Animals, by Charles Darwin, F.R.S. (with 

 photographic and other illustrations) ; Records of the Rocks, a 

 series of Notes on the Geology, Natural History, and Antiquities 

 of North and South Wales, Siluria, Devon, and Cornwall, by 

 the Rev. W. S. Symonds, F.G.S. (with illustrations) ; Travels in 

 the Eastern Caucasus, on the Caspian and Black Seas, especially 

 in Daghest.an, by Lieut. -Gen. Sir Arthur Cunynghame, K.C.B. 

 (with map and illustrations) ; The Geography of India, Ancient 

 and Modern, an Elementary Manual for Students and General 

 Readers, by Col. Yule, C.B. (with maps and woodcuts); The 

 Longevity of Man, its Facts and its Fiction, including Observa- 

 tions on the more Remarkable Instances, and Hints for Test- 

 ing Reputed Cases, by William J. Thorns, F.S.A. ; Metallurgy 

 of Gold, Silver, and Mercury, by John Percy, M.D., F.R.S., 

 Lecturer on Metallurgy at the Royal School of Mines (with 

 illustrations) ; The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of 

 Man, by Sir Charles Lyell, B.art., F.R.S., 4th edition revised ; 

 Metallurgy of Fuel, Wood, Coal, Copper, Zinc, &c. ; also. Metal- 

 lurgy of Iron and Steel, by John Percy, M.D., F.R.S. , Lecturer on 

 Metallurgy at the Government School of Mines (new and revised 

 editions, with illustrations, 2 vols.); Siluria : a History of theOldest 

 Rocks in the British Isles and other Countries, by Sir R. I. Mur 

 chison, F;R.S. (5th and cheaper edition, with maps, plates, and 

 woodcuts). By Messrs. Macmillan : — The Forces of Nature, a 

 Popular Introduction to the Study of Physical Phenomena, by 

 Amedee Guillemni, translated from the French by Mrs. Norman 

 Lockyer, and edited, with Additions and Notes, by J. Norman 

 Lockyer, F.R.S. (illustrated by It coloured plates, and 450 

 woodcuts) ; Papers on Electrostatics and Magnetism, by Prof. 

 Sir W. Thomson, F.R.S.; The Depths of the Sea: An 



Account of Investigations conducted on board H.M.'s Ships 

 Lightning and Porcupine in the Years 1868-9, under the Scien 

 tffic'Dlrec'tion'ofAV.'BTCarpenter, M.D., F.R.S., J. Gwyn Jeff- 

 reys, F.R.S., and Wyville Thomson, LL.D., F.R.S. , edited by 

 Dr. Wyville Thomson (with illustrations). By Messrs. L. Reeve 

 and Co. : — Lahore to Yarkand, Incidents and Natural History of 

 the Expedition of 1870, by Dr. Henderson ; On Harvesting 

 Ants and Trap-door Spiders, by J. T: Moggridge, F.L.S. ; 

 Vol. 2 of the English Edition of Prof. Baillon's Natural History 

 of Plants ; and the Fifth Part of Hanley and Theobald's Concho- 

 logia Indica. By Messrs. Blackwood and Sons : — A Manual 

 of Paljeontology for the use of Students, by H : AUeyne Nicholson, 

 M.D., D. Sc. Professorof Natural History and Botany, University 

 College, Toronto (with 400 engravings) ; Advanced Text-Book of 

 Botany for the Use of Students, by Robert Brown, M.A , Lec- 

 turer on Botany under the Science and Art Department of the 

 Committee of the Privy Council on Education. By Messrs. 

 A. and C. Black : — School Manual of Zoology, by Andrew Wil- 

 son (with illustrations ; New Edition of Jukes' Scotch Manual of 

 Geology, edited by Alfred J. Browne ; New Edition of Elements 

 of Mineralogy, by James Nicol, Professor of Natural History 

 in the University of Aberdeen. By Messrs. H. S. King 

 and Co. : — Tlie Forms of Water in Rain and Rivers, 

 Ice and Glaciers, by John Tyndall, LL.D., F.R.S. (with 

 32 illustrations) ; Physics and Politics, by Walter Bagehot, 

 being vols, i and 2 of the International Scientific Series. 

 By Messrs. Lockwood and Co. : — A rudimentary Treatise on 

 Coal and Coal mining, by Warington W. Smyth, M.A. ; Weale's 

 Dictionaiy of Terms, new and enlarged edition, edited by Robert 

 Hunt, F.G.S. ; Waterworks for the Supply of Cities and Towns, 

 with a description of the Principal Geological Formations of 

 England as influencing Supplies of Water, by Samuel Hughes, 

 new edit. ; Projection, Orthographic, Topographic, and Perspec- 

 tive, giving the various Modes of Delineating Solid Forms by 

 Constructions on a Single Plane Surface, by J. F. Heather, 

 M.A. ; A First Book of Mining and Quarrying, with the 

 Sciences connected therewith, for use in Primary Schools and 

 Self-Instruction, by J. H. Collins, F.G.S.; Places and Facts 

 in Plrysical and Political Geography, for the use of Candidates 

 in Public and Private Examinations, by the Rev. Edgar H. 

 Rand ; a Course of Analytical Chemistry, specially prepared for 

 Universities and Science and Art Departments, Advanced and 

 Honours Examinations, by W. W. Pink. By Messrs. S. Low, 

 Son and Co. : — The Arctic Regions, illustrated with Photo- 

 graphs, taken on an Art Expedition to Greenland, by Wm. 

 Bradford ; with descriptive Narrative by the Artist ; in I vol. 

 royal broadside, 25 inches by 20 inches, bound in morocco ; 

 The Atmosphere, by Camille Flammarion, translated under the 

 superintendence and revision of James Glaisher (with numerous 

 woodcut illustrations and 10 beautiful chromo-Iithographs). By 

 Mr. Maclehose : — A Class-Book of Qualitative Chemical Ana- 

 lysis, by John Ferguson, M.A. By Tnibner and Co. : — 

 Mythical Zoology, or the Legends of Animals, by Angelo de 

 Gubernatis, Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Literature in 

 the Instituto di Studii Superiori e di Perfezionamento, at Flo- 

 rence (2 vols.); A Practical Treatise on Pure Fertilisers, and 

 the Chemical Conversion of Rock Guano, Marlstones, Copro- 

 lites, and the Crude Phosphates of Lime and Alumina generally, 

 into various valuable 'Products, by Campbell Morfit, M.D., 

 F.G.S. (with 28 Illustrative Plates or Construction Plans, 

 drawn to Scale Measurements) ; Human Physiology, the Basis 

 of Sanitary and Social Science, by T. L. Nichols, M.D. (with 

 illustrations). 



Prof. Galloway, of the Royal College of Science, Dublin, 

 has two works nearly ready for the press : — " How the Natural 

 Sciences are Taught, and how they ought to be Taught ; with 

 a Scheme for rendering more efficient the Government Science 

 Schools ;" and " A Manual of Applied Analysis.' 



