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the presidency, and deliver an address. On Thursday evening, 

 Aug. 20, at 8 P.M., there will be a Soiree ; on Friday evening, 

 Aug. 21, at 8 P.M., a Discourse by Prof. Huxley, P'.R.S. ; on 

 Monday evening, Aug. 24, at 8.30 p.m., a Discourse by Sir John 

 Lubbock, Bart., M.P., F.R.S. ; on Tuesday evening, Aug. 25, 

 at 8 P.M., a Soiree; on Wednesday, Aug. 26, the concluding 

 General Meeting will be held at 2.30 P.M. The following are the 

 officials of the various sections : — A, Mathematical and Physical 

 Science.— President : Rev. Prof. J. H. Jellett, M.R.I.A. Vice- 

 Presidents: Prof. Everett, F.R.S.E. ; Prof. Purser, M.R.I.A. 

 Secretaries : Prof. W. K. Clifford, F.R.S. ; J. W. L. Glaisher, 

 F.R.A.S. ; Prof. Herschel, F.R.A.S. ; Randal Nixon; G. F. 

 Rodwell, F.R.A.S. B, Chemical Science. — President: Prof. 

 A. Crum Brown, F.R.S.E. Vice-Presidents: Prof. Maxwell 

 Simpson, F.R.S. ; Dr. Debus, F.R.S. Secretaries: Dr. J. F. 

 Hodges, F.C.S. ; W. Chandler Roberts, F.C.S. ; Prof. Thorpe, 

 F.R.S.E. C, Geology. — President : Prof. Hull, F.R.S. Vice- 

 Presidents : Prof. Harkness, F.R.S.; Prof. Geikie, F.R.S. 

 Secretaries: Louis C. Miall ; R. G. Symes. D, Biology. — Pre- 

 sident : Prof. Redfern, M.D. Vice-Presidents: Dr. Hooker, 

 C.B., Pres. R.S. ; Sir W. R. Wilde ; J. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S. 

 Department of Anatomy and Physiology. — Prof. Redfern (pre- 

 sident) will preside. Secretaries : Dr. J.J. Charles ; Dr. P. H. 

 Pye-Smith. Department of Zoology and Botany. — Dr. Hooker, 

 C.B. , Pres. R.S. (vice-president), will preside. .Secretaries : Prof. 

 W.T. Thiselton-Dyer, Prof. R. O. Cunningham, F.L.S. Depart- 

 ment of Anthropology. — Sir W. R. Wilde (vice-president) will 

 preside. Secretary : F. W. Rudler, F.G.S. E, Geography, 

 — President : Major Wilson, F.R.S., Director of the Topo- 

 graphical Department of the Army. Vice-presidents : Sir 

 Bartle Frere,G.C.S.L, K.C.B., F.R.G.S.; Admiral Ommanney, 

 C.B., F.R.S. ; Major-General Strachey, F.R.S. ; Secretaries: 



E. G. Ravenstein, F.R.G.S. ; E. C. Rye; J. H. Thomas, 



F. R.G. S. F, Economic Science and Statistics. — Presi- 

 dent: . Vice-presidents: W. .Donnelly, C.B. ; Prof. T. E. 



Cliffe Leslie. Secretaries: ¥. P. Fellowes, F.S.A. ; E. 

 Macrory. G, Mechanical Science. — President : Prof. Jame« 

 Thomson, F.R.S.E. Vice-presidents: Sir John ILawkshavv, 

 F.R.S. ; Sir Charles Lanyon. Secretaries: James Barton; 

 E. H. Carbutt; J. N. Shoolbred, F.G.S. 



The announcements for holding the twenty-third meeting of 

 the American Association for the Advancement of Science at 

 Hartford, Connecticut, on Aug. 12, have been issued by the 

 secretary, in which we are informed that the head-quarters will 

 be at the State House. Dr. John L. Leconte, of Philadelphia, 

 is president of the coming meeting ; Prof. C. S. Lyman, vice- 

 president ; F. W. Putnam, of .Salem, permanent secretary ; 

 Dr. A. C. Hamlin, general secretary ; and William .S. Vaux, 

 treasurer. The Hon. H. C. Robinson is chairman of the local 

 committee. 



A MARBLE 7-epliia of Woolner's remarkably fine bust of the 

 late Prof. .Sedgwick has just been placed in the hall of the 

 Geological Museum in Jermyn Street, the gift of a lady who 

 wishes to be anonymous. The School of British Geology is now 

 well represented in this museum by the busts of tlie following 

 geologists : — Hutton, Playfair, Sir James H.all, William Smith, 

 Greenough, Buckland, De la Beche, Forl^es, Murchison, and 

 Sedgwick. 



It will be heard with regret that Dr. J. Hughes Bennett has 

 been obliged, on account of his health, to intimate his resigna- 

 tion of the Chair of Physiology in the University of Edinburgh. 

 It is understood that Dr. McKendrick, Dr. Bell Petligiew, and 

 Prof. Rutherford will offer themselves for the vacant chair. 



Prof. Schroeder of Erlangen (DoilSihe Archiv Jur kUnisclu 

 Medicin] confirms, by a remarkable case occurring in his own 

 practice, the previous observations of Winkel and C. Braun, of 



the occasional occurrence of small cysts in the mucous membrane 

 of the vagina of pregnant females containing some kind of air. 

 These cysts he proposes to call air-cysts. When they are opened 

 the air escapes with a report or crack. These observations, if 

 verified by subsequent inquirers, will form a remarkable addition 

 to the pathology of gaseous secretion or production. 



The Observatory at Kiel, of which Dr. C. A. F. Peters is 

 director, is to be removed to Altona, in order to be in closer 

 connection with the University. 



The death is announced of Mr. Henry Grinnell, of New 

 York, whom the English public will remember in connection 

 with the Grinnell Arctic Expedition. 



At the distribution last week of prizes at King's College, Mr. 

 W. E. Forster, M.P., gave an address in which, among other 

 subjects, he contrasted the expense of educating a boy from the 

 age of nine to twenty-two at the older schools and universities 

 with the cost of education during the same period at King's Col- 

 lege ; in the former case it is between 1,600/. and 1,800/., in the 

 latter only 400/. Mr. Forster also referred to the superior ad- 

 vantages, in some respects, of German over English schools ; 

 he might at the same time have pointed out that a German 

 boy ran obtain the best education which his country can give 

 at a cost of something like 5/. a year, which for the thirteen 

 years between nine and twenty-two amoimts to the ridiculously 

 small sum of 65/. 



At St. John's College, Cambridge, in April 1S75, there will 

 be offered for competition an Exhibition of 50/ per annum for 

 proficiency in Natural Science, the Exhibition to be tenable for 

 three years in case the Exhibitioner have passed within two 

 years the Previous Examination as required for candidates for 

 honours : otherwise the lixhibition to cease at the end of 

 two years. The candidates for the Exhibition will have l| 

 a special examination (commencing on Saturday, April 3, • 



at I P.M.) in (i) Chemistry, including practical work in the 

 laboratory ; (2) Physics, viz. Electricity, Heat, Light ; (3) Phy- 

 siology. They will also have the opportunity of being exainined 

 in one or more of the following subjects — (4) Geology ; (5) 4 



Anatomy ; (6) Botany, provided that they give notice of the I 

 subjects in which they wish to be examined four weeks prior to 

 the examination. No candidate will be examined in more than 

 three of these six subjects, wherof one at least must be chosen 

 from the former group. It is the wish ol the master and seniors 

 that excellence in some single department should be specially 

 regarded by the candidates. They may also, if they think fit, 

 offer themselves for examination in any of the Classical or Ma- 

 thematical subjects. Candidates must send their names to one 

 of the tutors lourteen days before the commencement of the 

 examination. The Exhibition is not limited in respect to the 

 age of candidates, and is not vacated by election to Foundation 

 Scholarships. 



There will be an examination at Queen's College, Cambridge, 

 on Thursday, Oct. 8, 1874, for an Exhibition for proficiency in 

 Natural Science, open to all persons under twenty years of age 

 who shall not have commenced residence in tke University. 

 The Exhibition will be of the value of 40/. per annum. Candi- 

 dates will be required to pass an examination in elementary 

 classics and mathematics. No Exhibition will be given unless 

 the examiners report that a candidate merits such a distinction. 

 Each candidate must forward to the President of the College 

 before the day of examination a certificate of birth or baptism, 

 and a certificate of good conduct from a graduate of Cambridge, 

 Oxford, or Dublin. The successful candidates wiU be required 

 to enter their names on the boards of the College and to com- 

 mence residence at once. Further particulars will be furnished 



