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well it is deserved is furnished by your having gained, as Mr. Freshfield has told 
us, last year the gold medal in the other branch of the science, political geogra- 
phy, and were honorably mentioned in the examination of the year previous.” 
To the silver medalist, A. L. Humphries, the President said: ‘‘ This is the fif- 
teenth medal gained by the school to which you belong, Liverpool College, a 
striking testimony to the skill and success with which geography is studied in 
that institution, and to the pains taken by its eminent head-master, the Rev. 
George Butler.” 
Mr. R. N. Cust, at the invitation of the President, announced the special 
subject of next year’s examination as being ‘‘ Polynesia, including New Zea- 
land.” 
ARGENTINE REPUBLIC.—An importation of tor African ostriches has succeed- 
ed at Buenos Ayres. ‘Their owner isan Englishman, who proposes to establish a 
farm for ostriches in that province; the climacteric conditions, according to his 
opinion, favoring his project. | 
ExpepitTions.—Dr. E. Pieroth, an Italian traveller and savant, is now or- 
ganizing an Exploring Expedition to Egypt, Palestine and neighboring countries. 
He intends to leave Marseilles, on the second of September, and hopes to return 
by November first. 
Caprain Bove, of the royal Italian navy, who was associated with Prof. Nor- 
denskjold, in his late excursion to the glacial seas of the North, has projected an 
Antarctic Expedition He will leave next May and be absent two years among 
the glaciers of the South Pole His crew and steamer will be furnished by the 
Italian Government, from the royal navy—at an expense of about 600,000 francs. 
NECROLOGICAL.—By sad concidence geology has lost two savants, W. H. 
Willer and M. Ansted,both having died on the same day. ‘The former was eighty 
years of age and author of several classic works, of which, a treatise on crystallo- 
graphy was the most notable. Mr. Ansted was only sixty-six years of age, and 
was professor of geology at King’s College, London, and Examiner on geography 
and physics, in the department of science and art. He was an author of numer- 
ous works. Both of these individuals were educated at Cambridge and belonged 
to the Royal Society. 
FatuHer Horner, the celebrated Catholic Missionary, isdead. He had been 
a resident missionary on the island of Zanzibar for many years, and was conspicu- 
ous for his labors in behalf of the suppression of the slave trade, for his African 
travels, and for the sympathy and assistance he was always ready to give to ex- 
plorers and scientists on the Eastern African coast. He died last May, at Can- 
nes, France.—L’ Exploration. 
