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Mr. Maskelyne was elected a F.R.S. in 1870, and was awarded the 

 ' Wollaston Medal ' by the Council of the Geological Society in 1893, 

 in recognition of his great services to Mineralogy. He represented 

 Cricklade in Parliament 1880-5, and North Wilts. 1885-92. — Morning 

 Post, May 22, 1911. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Geological Survey of Great Britain. — Dr. John Home, F.R.S. , 

 who joined the staff of the Geological Survey in Scotland in 1867, 

 retires from the public service on June 30. As notified in the 

 Geological Magazine for April, 1901, Dr. Home was appointed in 

 that year Assistant Director for Scotland, under Dr. Teall as Director. 

 Dr. Home's service, which has extended over nearly forty-four years, 

 has ever been characterized by enthusiastic and strenuous labour 

 whether in the field or in the office, and by much brilliant research 

 in all parts of Scotland, notably in the North-West Highlands. 



We learn (from Nature, April 13) that Dr. J. S. Flett has been 

 appointed to succeed Dr. Home as assistant in Scotland to the Director 

 of the Geological Survey. Dr. Flett is a graduate of Edinburgh 

 University, where he was Baxter Scholar, Falconer Fellow in Geology, 

 and a Heriot Research Fellow. He was for four years lecturer on 

 petrology in the University, and in 1901 joined the Geological Survey. 

 In 1903 he was appointed petrographer to the Survey. After the 

 West Indian eruptions in 1901 he was sent out with Dr. Tempest 

 Anderson by the Royal Society of London to report on the volcanic 

 phenomena. He has published many scientific papers dealing princi- 

 pally with the volcanic and metamorphic rocks of the British Isles, 

 and he has contributed largely to the memoirs of the Geological 

 Survey, not only on Scotland, but also on Cornwall and Devon. For 

 scientific research he was awarded the Neill Medal by the Royal 

 Society of Edinburgh (1902) and the Bigsby Medal by the Geological 

 Society of London (1909). 



The Fiest Universal Races Congress is to meet at the Universitv 

 of London, July 26-9, under the presidency of the Right Hon. Lord 

 Weardale, and with the Right Hon. Lord Avebury as one of the 

 Vice-Presidents. The Congress aims to be an assemblage of members 

 of all the races of the world. Professor A. C. Hacldon will give 

 a "Demonstration of Racial Types", and he is Director of the 

 Exhibition that will be organized in connexion with the Congress. 



The Tenth International Geographical Congress will be held in 

 Rome in the week beginning October 15, under the presidency of the 

 Marquis Raffaele Cappelli. It is interesting to note that the Congress 

 will be divided into the following sections: (1) Mathematical 

 Geography, (2) Physical Geography, (3) Biogeography, (4) Anthropo- 

 geography and Ethnography, (5) Economic Geography, (6) Choro- 

 graphy, (7) Historical Geography and History of Geography, (8) 

 Methodology and Didactics. 



International Volcanological Institute at Naples. — Although 

 for some time past an observatory has existed on Vesuvius, the means 

 at command have always been insufficient to carry on the systematic 



