432 Miscelluneous—Honows to Men of Science. 
MISCHLUAANHOUS. 
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Proceepines Dorsrer Fierp Crus: Dare or Votume II. — This 
volume was issued without any date on the title-page; and the 
question has often arisen as to the correct date. Papers which it. 
contains are dated {1883 ]in the Royal Society’s Catalogue. However, 
the evidence for the date is to be found in vol. x, p. xv. An 
obituary notice of the Rev. H. H. Wood says: ‘‘ He dies just as the 
4th volume of the Proceedings . . . . 1s issued to the members.” 
He died (p. xiv) on November 38rd, 1882, so that the end of 
October or beginning of November, 1882, is the date of the volume in 
question. S.S.B. 
‘¢ Sppuons in Srones.’’—In a lecture delivered before the St. John’s 
College Natural History Society at Cambridge (printed in the Hagle, 
vol. xxviii, No. 142, March, 1907) Professor I’. G. Bonney has dealt 
with ‘The Geology of the College Chapel.” The present Chapel was 
consecrated in May, 1869. Its walls are of Ancaster and Ketton stone, 
and itis roofed with Collyweston ‘slate’; but it includes some portions 
of the older chapel constructed of Barnack stone and Totternhoe stone. 
In various parts of the new building different materials are used for 
decorative and other purposes, such as the red dolomitic sandstone of 
Mansfield, paving-stone from Yorkshire, granite from Peterhead, 
serpentine from the Lizard, marble from Connemara, Devonshire, 
Purbeck, Derbyshire, Armagh, Belgium, and Carrara. With this 
wealth of materials before him, Professor Bonney has been able to 
preach an excellent sermon on stones, one of considerable interest, and 
one perhaps not unlikely to distract the minds of those who attend 
the College Chapel, when they learn how instructive it is as a Museum 
of Practical Geology. 
Honours to DistrneuisHED Men oF Science. 
Srr E. Ray Lanxesrer, K.C.B.—The honour of a Knight Com- 
mander of the Bath has been bestowed by His Majesty on Professor 
E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., the Director of the Natural History 
Departments of the British Museum, who, we regret to learn, is, 
at the early age of 60 years, shortly relinquishing his most interesting 
office. Last year he was President of the British Association at the 
76th Annual Meeting held in York. 
Six A. Gerxiz.—‘‘ We are officially informed that the King has 
conferred a knighthood of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, 
civil division, upon Sir Archibald Geikie, Secretary to the Royal 
Society. Sir Archibald Geikie, who is in his 72nd year, was the 
first Murchison Professor of geology and mineralogy at the University 
of Edinburgh, of which city he is a native. He was President of the 
Geological Society in 1891, of the British Association in 1892, and 
Director-General of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom and 
Director of the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street, from 
1882 till 1901. He was re-elected President of the Geological Society 
in February, 1906, and will deliver his Address as President at the 
Centenary Commemoration on September 26th.”’—Reprinted, a part, 
from the Daily Chronicle, August 10th, 1907. 
