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• completes that work. Lord Lilford will be reniembered and 

 regretted by naturalists all over the world. 



M. Tony Xoiil. has (says the British Medical fournat) just 

 finished a statue of Pasteur, to be placed in the market-place of 

 Alais, where the illustrious investigator made his researches in 

 the diseases of silkworms. The statue is declared by the rela- 

 tives and friends of M. Pasteur to be an excellent likeness, and 

 artistically it is a very successful piece of work. Pasteur is 

 represented erect, gazing fixedly at a sprig of mulberry covered 

 with cocoons which he holds in his left hand. At his feet is a 

 young girl in a graceful attitude handing him other cocoons. 

 Near at hand are a microscope and a box of scientific instru- 

 ments. M. Berthelot, who in company with M. Roux carefully 

 inspected the statue, is said to have exclaimed: "Je revois 

 Pasteur tel qu'il ctait il-y-a vingtcinq ans." 



We regret to announce the death, on the 14th inst., of Dr. 

 H. B. Pollard, lecturer on biology and comparative anatomy at 

 Charing Cross Hospital. Elected a scholar of Christ Church, 

 Oxford, in 1SS5, Dr. Pollard graduated B.M. with first class 

 honours in morphology in 1890, and concurrently gained similar 

 distinction in the London intermediate and final B.Sc. examina- 

 tions. He subsequently studied for two years under Prof. 

 Wiedersheim at Freiburg, and in 1S92 was appointed to the 

 Oxford table at Dr. Dohrn's laboratory at Naples. In 1893 he 

 was elected Berkeley Eellowof the Owens College, Manchester, 

 and in 1895 lecturer at Charing Cross Hospital. He was granted 

 the degree of D.Sc. by London University for a thesis on 

 Polypterus. Dr. Pollard made a special study of fish, and in a 

 series of papers contributed to German scientific periodicals, he 

 originated a theory of their development which has received 

 considerable attention from biologists. He was writing a text- 

 book on the subject at the time of his death, which took place 

 at Dover, in his twenty-eighth year. He was apparently stunned 

 by a fall while bathing and drowned. 



For the opening of museums and art galleries on Sundays we 

 are undoubtedly very largely indebted to the zeal of Mr. Mark 

 Judge, the Honorary Secretary of the Sunday Society. For some 

 years the Society cried aloud in the wilderness, but few of the 

 multitude paid heed, though such men as Darwin, Huxley, 

 Romanes, Spottiswoode and Tyndall, only to mention a few of 

 the supporters who are gone, became apostles of the movement. 

 From the time when the Society was founded, thirty years ago, 

 Mr. Judge has advanced its objects with the pertinacity which 

 comes from conviction, and has thus educated public opinion on 

 the subject of Sunday reform. The objects have now been 

 attained, and there is a feeling that the services rendered by 

 Mr. Judge in support of them should be publicly recognised. 

 A Committee has therefore been formed to appeal, for subscrip- 

 tions for a testimonial to Mr. Judge. It is hoped that a ready 

 response will be made to the appeal, as a token of gratitude for 

 the boon of Sunday opening. The Chairman of the Testimonial 

 Committee is the Rev. S. A. Barnett, and the Hon. Sec. and 

 Treasurer, Prof. Corfield, to whom subscriptions may be sent at 

 19 Savile Row, W. 



We learn from Sciemc that the party from Cornell University 

 which will embark with Lieut. Peary on the Kite is as 

 ■follows. R. S. Tarr, professor of dynamic geology and physical 

 -geography ; A. C. Gill, professor of mineralogy and petrography ; 

 J. A. Bonstell, assistant in geology ; T. L. Watson, fellow in 

 geology; E. M. Kindle, scholar in pahvontology ; and J. O. 

 Martin, special student in entomology. It is the purpose of the 

 party to make as thorough a geological study as is possible in 

 five or si.\ weeks, of the region near the Devil's Thumb, at the 

 south end of Melville Bay, and in addition to this to make 

 collections of flora and fauna, .\nother party will also sail 



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with Lieutenant Peary, under the leadership of A. E. Burton, 

 professor of civil engineering in the Massachusetts Institute ot 

 Technolog)'. This party will land at the great Umanak Fiord ; 

 they will make pendulum observations, natural history 

 collections, and study the glacial phenomena. Lieut. Peary 

 himself will proceed north as far as Cape Sabine at the entrance 

 of .Smith Sound. He will also endeavour to explore Jones 

 Sound. He will be accompanied by Mr. Albert Operti, the 

 artist, who will take casts of the Cape York natives for the 

 purpose of making models for the American Museum of Natural 

 History, New York. 



In connection with the note in Nature of June 18 (p. 158), 

 with reference to the instruction in meteorology in the Uni- 

 versity of Odessa, our attention has been drawn to a circular 

 relating to meteorological observations in schools, recently pre- 

 pared for the Connecticut State Board of Education by Mr. R. 

 De C. Ward, Instructor in Meteorology in Harvard University, 

 and published by the Connecticut Board. TheZ'0(««t'«/{No. 10, 

 1896) points out that the time has come when meteorology 

 should be systematically taught in schools, and it indicates the 

 lines along which the elementary study of the subject should 

 proceed in order to be most thorough and useful. In addition 

 to the registration of observations without the use of instruments, 

 including current weather and the state of the sky, it is not 

 proposed to attempt anything more than records of temperature, 

 direction and force of wind, and rainfall during the early years of 

 the grammar-school course. Such elementary work cannot fail 

 to attract both teachers and scholars, and to lay a foundation on 

 which, in after years, a more advanced study of meteorology 

 (including the practical use of daily weather maps) may be 

 built up. 



The Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute, New Zealand, is 

 fortunate in having such a generous and broad-minded friend as 

 the Rev. William Colenso, F.R.S., as their President. At the 

 opening of the Institute's session in May, after delivering an 

 animated address, Mr. Colenso put before the meeting a scheme 

 for the foundation of a museum to take the place of the present 

 museum at Napier. He offered to give towards the realisation 

 of his scheme the sum of £,\oao and a freehold site, and to 

 supplement this with a second donation of ^^500 so soon as 

 ^500 was given by some one else. The total amount required 

 to establish the museum is about ^4000. Referring to the 

 conditions of gift, Mr. Colenso said : " The museum must be a 

 building which will be open every day of the week and Sunday 

 afternoons too. I find that this is the case in Auckland, where 

 large numbers visit the museum on Sunday afternoons. And 

 what better use can a man give to his time than in the observance 

 of the wonderful works of his Maker ? There is another proviso, 

 and that is that the building must only be used for the purposes 

 of a museum and library. There must be no concerts, no 

 Liedertafels, no spouting, no mutual admiration societies, no 

 globe-trotters, no tourists, and no parsons. I will not give a 

 penny for persons of that kind. I have received a letter asking 

 for assistance for a museum in my native town in England. 

 There the money has to be raised by a certain time. So in 

 Napier it must be raised by December 31. The deed would be 

 vested in five trustees, who should be generous and businesslike 

 men, with a keen interest in the project. The museum pro- 

 posed would be a museum for the East Coast, not only for 

 Hawke's Bay proper, or for the old provincial district, but for 

 Poverty Bay and Gisborne and the country stretching up to the 

 East Cape." Thereshould be no difficulty in raising the money 

 required for the consummation of the scheme which Mr. Colenso 

 has in mind, and towards which he is willing to contribute so 

 liberally. 



