Meevcl0, IO1)].107 2.4] 
of ithe Sts Lawrence / sor was there/anyl other 
evidence of glaciation! i- Dheiléwer course of the 
Amur, indicates, subsidence, sAgain, thereare 
Le signss of glaciation voniithe Vitint Platieat! 
Lake Baikalapp€ars toibeofsrecentoorigin 3 ait 
is: ev yea feet eee ane Has HOH NSB! alae as the 
the ESI gw” and’’6 her Tivers, Pog eet ae 
) foo Ds it! 
Giérs ¢ ould fr aici be: seen on e » mountains 
473 a0} Hee 
whi border ‘the Central, “Asi lateau to 
2102: AC 
the . rthwest, . there was, nO, e idence . that 
the glaciers. had. ever, _deployed,. ony; the. Jain, 
The.. leess-region, of Turkestan, and indeed the 
whole, area ‘from the Sea of. Aralito) the:-Black 
Sea, appearrsito have been recently elevated; in 
some places‘as much! as'3,000 feet: -Desiccation 
took place: ati'thé sain fite: sothat? the largér 
Takes are “only brackish ‘or’ still frésh’ “Direct 
@videnee of this i in the form of deposits i is given, 
The. author 't inks it likely that the absence. ‘of 
glaciation in. northern nD Asia may have ‘been due 
to the, rainlessness of, the region and that,. while 
America was eleyated,: ‘Asia, was, depres sed, dur- 
ing the Glacial, Mpoch... « isvr ini noisuloze7 
o PoE. Brussels) Academy’ of) Scienees:‘an- 
nounces,,as we flearn {from|Nature,: the ‘fol- 
lowing prize )subjects. for 1901: New i re- 
searches, upon the, compounds formed: by. the 
halogens between themselves (800 franes);, the 
determination of the. form. of the, principal 
terms introduced into, the formule of. nutation 
in obliquity and longitude by_the elasticity of 
the. earth’s crust (800° francs) ; historical and 
critical discussién of Weber’s experiments on 
tinea Lae induction, and new exper iments bear- 
ing upon “the! Taws ‘and’ interpretation of this 
physiéal ‘fact! (300 frants) ; a contribution’ to 
the’ study” ‘Of thixed forms with a number of 
series of variables, andthe: application of the 
results to the geometry of Space (600 francs); 
history ofresearchesonitheéivariation ofilatitude, 
andiaidiscussioni lof cthe,intérpretationssof this 
phenomenon (600 francs) ; investigations of the 
physiological 1 role, of. Aalbuminoid ‘Substances, in 
the’ nutri tion. of animals 0 or plants (800 francs); 
new researches on the organization ; and develop- 
ment of Phoronis, and the relations existing 
between the” ~aPAA1S “Hnaeldpleth rd and! ‘Cephilo- 
Hiséi's and thé Tass to which the name eBnterop: 
neusta has been applied (£060' fratits) sides scrip- 
759 
tion ofesimple substances, sulphates and binary 
compounds of Bélgiansdil (8000 fates)? “re- 
Searches on the influence of exter nal‘faétors ‘on 
Seg ae cellular divisions Win’! Blsus 
ae noenM deiiind ¢ fioyisost 
WE, ean Eon aie Se hot “an ge 10th 
the, committee. of; ithe Marine; Biological Station 
at Millport received representatives from, yvari- 
ous educational bodies—at—the Station, with 
a view to extent a knowledge of the edu- 
cational resources at their command. ‘Dr. J. 
F.., Gemmill}. the; president; gayeoa) sketch 
of ithe new teaching arrangements, which. in- 
clude a course of, Jectures on marine zoology 
and botany, with practical demonstrations. on 
Saturdays from April 27th to June 15th, in- 
elusive, the intr oductory lecture tobe abies ed 
by Sir Jobin Murray, ke (OTE, Gan R. Ss. The 
visitors . were afterwards conduercde over the 
laboratories, tank- -room and museum by Dr. 
James Rankin, and then proceeded on a dredg- 
ing excursion on ‘the Stéam:+]aunch Mermaid; -re- 
centlypresented tothe institution: ! Tt is hoped 
thatthe ‘new teaching arrangements will en= 
courage the practical study of natural history 
among board school and other.teachers, up- 
wards of 40.0f whom haye already entered their 
names, for, the new. classes. ., The, science ;stu- 
dents in, the, University;.of Glasgow. also, find 
the station an admirable center, for. practical 
work, and, the,..younger ;dons, in, the science 
ivan ee are enereenAtly pssisbing: in. its de- 
velopment, ,, - 
“Tris announced that! “through an expedition 
to Kenat Peninsula by Mv. Andrew J. Stone ih 
the interests of the American ‘Museum ‘of Natt 
zal. History; jthe. Museum, has, received; some 
fine . specimens.of, jthe... big Alaskan moose; 
recently, described as\Alces, gigas, ;, Thisanimad 
is the largest. known representative-of, the,deer 
tribe; and differs from \the moose of eastern 
Sanndge and. Maing in ise ee size and, ESE 
ment: of as. een oe. are. mice ies 
than those of the eastern maosey oMr., Stone 
also. obtained specimens of two species of bear 
and fie Head‘ oP 4 ine ‘earibot/ * Other ‘recent 
debEssions! of ‘rote “are 'Q"collection: ‘of mand 
rats? ton “Petit, consisting’ COP’ about? oré 
