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ology, medieval literature and history and 

 anthropology and comparative religion. In tlie 

 latter subjects the contributions are as f oUovfs : 



E. Thurston, "The Number Seven in Hindoo 

 Mythology. ' ' 



T. A. Joyce, "The "Weeping God." 



S. A. Cook, ' ' The Evolution and Survival of 

 Primitive Thought." 



J. G. Frazer, ' ' The Serpent and the Tree of 

 Life." 



W. Boyd Dawkins, "The Settlement of Britain 

 in the Prehistoric Age. ' ' 



W. Wright, "The Miindible from the Morpho- 

 logical and Anthropological Point of View." 



C. G. Seligmann, "Ancient Egyptian Beliefs in 

 Modern Egypt." 



W. L. H. Duckworth, " Craniological Notes." 



W. H. E. Elvers, ' ' The Contact of Peoples. ' ' 



J. Eendell Harris, "The Dioscuri in Byzantium 

 and its Neighborhood. ' ' 



C. S. Myers, "Primitive Music." 



Henry Balfour, ' ' Some Peculiar Fishing Appli- 

 ances and their Geographical Distribution. ' ' 



A. C. Haddon, ' ' The Outrigger Canoea of Torres 

 Straits and North Queensland. ' ' 



J. H. Moulton, ' ' Notes in Iranian Ethnog- 

 raphy. ' ' 



The British Board of Agriculture and 

 Fisheries has awarded research scholarships 

 in agricultural science of the annual value of 

 £160, tenable for three years, to the following 

 candidates, viz.: E. W. Barton (Wales), eco- 

 nomics of agriculture; W. Brown (Edin- 

 burgh), plant pathology; Miss E. C. V. Cor- 

 nish (Bristol), dairying; F. L. Engledow 

 (London), genetics; E. J. Holmyard (Cam- 

 bridge), plant nutrition and soil problems; 

 R. C. Knight (London and Bristol), plant 

 physiology; F. J. Meggitt (Birmingham), 

 agricultural zoology; H. Eaistrick (Leeds), 

 animal nutrition; G. O. Sherrard (Dublin), 

 genetics; T. Trought (Cambridge), genetics; 

 G. Williams (Wales), animal nutrition; S. P. 

 Wiltshire (Bristol), plant pathology; Miss T. 

 Redman (London), dairying. The scholarships 

 have been established in connection with the 

 scheme for the promotion of scientific research 

 in agriculture, for the purposes of which the 

 treasury has sanctioned a grant to the board 

 from the development fund; they are designed 



to provide for the training of promising stu- 

 dents under suitable supervision with a view 

 to enable them to contribute to the develop- 

 ment of agricultural science. 



The new Natural History Department of 

 the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery was 

 formally opened on July 17. The museum, as 

 we learn from Nature, comprises four gal- 

 leries, one of which is not yet opened, having 

 been reserved for the Beale Memorial Collec- 

 tion, which is to consist of nesting groups of 

 British birds. The collections, which have 

 been arranged by Mr. W. H. Edwards, con- 

 tain representatives of most sections of nat- 

 ural history, though birds, shells and insects 

 predominate at the present time. 



The late Miss Henriette Hertz, who died at 

 Rome on April 9, has, according to the London 

 Times, left the following benefactions to the 

 British Academy : £2,000 for an annual lecture 

 or investigation or paper on a philosophical 

 problem, or some problem in the philosophy of 

 western or eastern civilization in ancient and 

 modern times ; £2,000 for an annual lecture or 

 investigation or paper on some problem or 

 aspect of the relation of art (in any of its 

 manifestations) to human culture, art to in- 

 clude poetry and music as well as sculpture, 

 painting; £1,000 for an annual public lecture 

 on some master mind, considered individually 

 with reference to his life and work, specially 

 in order to appraise the essential elements of 

 his genius, the subjects to be chosen from the 

 great philosophers, artists, poets, musicians; 

 £1,000, the income of which is to be used to 

 promote the publication of some philosophical 

 work to reward some meritorious publication 

 in the department of philosophy. The testa- 

 trix has also left the sum of £1,500 to Girton 

 College, the income to be used for the endow- 

 ment of archeological research. Her main 

 benefaction is devoted to the foundation of 

 the " Bibliotheca Hertziana " in the Palazza 

 Zuccari, for the promotion of Renaissance 

 studies. 



The inroads of the chestnut bark disease, 

 or chestnut blight, on the chestnut trees of 

 New England and the Middle Atlantic States 



