May : 



SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 



503 



ANNOUNCEMENTS. 



British Museum. — Four lectures, on the Social Condition 

 of the Babylonians, will be delivered by Mr. G. Berlin, on 

 the Fridays, June 8, 15, 22, 29, at 3.30 p.m. Tickets for the 

 series, 15s.; for one lecture, 5s., may be had from E. A. 

 Clarke, stationer, 38, Museum-street, W.C, and Mr. W. T. 

 Ready, 55, Rathbone-place. 



Geological Association. — The following, subject to 

 modification, is a list of the excursions, etc., proposed for the 

 coming season :— June 9th, Upminster ; June i6th, Reading; 

 June 23rd, Godstone and Bletchingly June 30th, Rickmans- 

 worth ; July 7th, Lewisham ; July 21st, Bedford ; August 6th 

 to nth, long excursion to South Wales and Monmouthshire. 



City and Guild of London Institute, Finsbury 

 College. — The annual students' conversasione will be held 

 this evening, commencing at 7 p.m. A lecture will be 

 delivered by Professor S. P. Thompson, on "Polarisation of 

 Light," and one by Professor T. Perry, on " Magnifying 

 Springs." There will also be a concert, an exhibition of 

 drawings, and apparatus. 



Royal Agricultural Society of England. — A general 

 meeting of Governors and members will be held at the 

 Society's House on Tuesday, the 22nd of May instant, at 

 twelve o'clock noon, when the half-yearly report of the 

 Council will be read, and the election of the President, 

 Trustees, and Vice-Presidents, and of twenty-five members 

 of Council, will take place. 



International Gardeners' Exhibition. — An Interna- 

 tional Gardeners' Exhibition, to be held m Cologne in 

 August next, will be of some industrial importance, inasmuch 

 as green house and garden house structures, heating 

 apparatus, tools, and other appliances used in gardening, 

 will form the principal feature. To insure success to this 

 undertaking the Government has instructed its representa- 

 tives in Vienna, St. Petersburg, London, Rome, Constanti- 

 nople, Brussels, The Hague, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Berne, 

 Athens, and Washington, to invite manufacturers and others 

 to exhibit at Cologne, and to afford all requisite facilities. 

 The Minister of Agriculture has informed the General Com- 

 mittee that he is prepared to offer ten first class and ten 

 second silver medals, and twelve third class bronze medals, 

 to stimulate competition. — Industries. 



The Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. — A 

 conversazione of this Society was held at the Society's house, 

 Bloomsbury-square, on Tuesday night, to celebrate the open- 

 ing of the new examination hall and research laboratories. 

 For some time past it had been felt that the accommodation 

 afforded by the old building was insufficient for the Society's 

 examinations, and the new rooms were undertaken to supply 

 the deficiency. The new building occupies a site behind the 

 two houses adjacent to the old building, and has a frontage 

 in Pied Bull-yard. It comprises, on the ground floor, besides 

 the entrance hall, a large examination hall, a dispensing 

 room, and chemical examiner's laboratory ; and two rooms 

 each on the entresol, first and second floors. The rooms on 

 the first floor are used as research laboratories ; and those 

 on the other floors are variously allotted. The basement 

 contains large preparation and store rooms, as well as a 

 boiler room, lavatories, etc. The large examination hall is 

 about 27ft. by 4Sft. with a height of 21ft. It is lighted by 

 ceiling-lights in the centre and at the west end, and by four 

 large windows at the east end. The research rooms on the 

 first floor are about 27ft. by 17ft. each, are exceptionally well 

 lighted, and have been fitted up with great care for their 

 special requirements. The sanitary arrangements have 

 received special attention, and the whole of the rooms have 

 been fitted with inlet and outlet ventilators. 



University College.— On May 17th Professor Erichseni 

 President of the University College, took the chair at the 

 annual distribution of prizes of the Faculty of Medicine, held 

 in the theatre of University College, when Dr. John Marshall, 

 President of the Medical Council, performed the ceremony. 

 The Dean of Faculty, Professor Marcus Beck, read the annual 

 report, which showed that 322 students, of whom 78 were 



new students, had attended the classes of the Faculty, and 

 the hospital classes, these numbers showing a diminution of 

 15 on the total, and 26 in the new students. The examinations 

 at the London University for degrees in medicine had been 

 attended by a large number of the students of the college ; 

 out of 23 who gained the M.D. degree, 11 were from Uni- 

 versity College. Out of 85 candidates who passed the M.B. 

 and B.Sc. examinations 21 were sent up ; and out of i85 — the 

 total number of passes in the various medical examinations 

 at the University of London — 46, or one-fourth of the whole, 

 were gained by students from University College. In the 

 honours list, gold medals were gained by Dr. P. D. Turner, 

 in the M.D., and by Mr. P. Fleming, Mr. E. H. Thane, and 

 Mr. C. W. Jecks in the M.B. examinations. Mr. W. T. 

 Cocking obtained the number of marks qualifying for the 

 gold medal in the M.D. Among the resignations of the year 

 mentioned in the report was that of Professor Oliver, who 

 had held the chair of botany with the greatest benefit to the 

 college for 38 years. The concluding paragraphs of the 

 report recognised the uniformly admirable conduct of the 

 students during the year, and expressed satisfaction at the 

 election of a member of the Faculty, Professor Erichsen, as 

 President of the college. Mr. Michael G. Foster, of Hunting- 

 don, was the winner of the gold medal for surgery. Mr. 

 H. M. Fernando, of Ceylon, gained the Aitchison Scholar- 

 ship of_£6o (tenable for two yearsj, the gold medal for medi- 

 cine, the Tuke medal in pathology, and other prizes ; Mr. 

 G. W. Sutherland, of Sydney, winner of the Bruce medal, 

 the silver medal (equal Mr. E. Wills, of Torquay), and of 

 several lower prizes ; Mr. E. W. Selby (Lewisham) won the 

 ^100, Mr. A. G. Levy (London) the ^60, and Mr. W. L. 

 Andriezen (Ceylon) the _^4o exhibitions of the entrance 

 series. Mr. W. M. Stevens (St. Ives) won the gold medal in 

 the senior class of physiology, and the gold medal in the 

 senior class of anatomy. 'The gold medal in practical 

 chemistry was won by Mr. B. L. Abrahams (London), the 

 Fellowes gold medal in clinical medicine by Mr. G. R. Murray 

 (Newcastle), the Liston gold medal ir. clinical surgery by Mr. 

 W. B. Ransom (Nottingham), the Erichsen prize for practical 

 surgery by Mr. G. B. M. White (Ampfield), and the prize for 

 dental surgery by Mr. E. O. Turner (Lewisham). 



DIARY FOR NEXT WEEK. 



Monday, May 28. — Society of Chemical Industry. — The Present 



Position and Prospects of the Coal Gas 



Industry ; by Mr. L. T. Wright. 

 Victoria Institute. — The Botany of Syria; 



by Prof. G. E. Post. 

 Aristotelian Society. — The Demarcations 



and Definitions of the Subject Sciences ; 



by Prof. Bain. 

 Tuesday, May 29. — Royal Institution, at 3 p.m. — Conventions 



and Conventionality in Art ; by Mr. S, 



Colvin. 

 Society of Arts. — Applied Art Section, at 



8 p.m. 

 Institution of Civil Engineers, at 8 p.m. — 



Annual General Meeting. 

 Wednesday, May 30. — College of State Medicine. — The Organisms 



occurring in Fresh Water, and tJie by 



hygienic importance of their presence ; 



Inspector-General J. M.'Macdonald, M.D. 

 Society of Arts, at 8 p.m. 

 Royal Institution, at 3 p.m. — The Growth 



and Sculpture of the A If s ; by Prof. T. G. 



Bonney. 

 Edinburgh Architectural Association. — 



Annual Meetino, 

 Society of Telegraph Engineers and 



Electricians, at 8 p.m. — On the fnjluence 



Machine, from 17SS to 188S ; by Prof. 



Silvanus P. Thompson. 

 Royal Institution, at 8 p.m. — Earth- 



quakes, and how to measure them ; by 



Prof J. A. Ewing. 

 Royal Institution, at 3 p.m. — Count Tolstoi 



as Novelist and Thinker ; by Prof. C. E. 



Turner. 



Ihursday, May 31, 



Friiay, June i. 

 Saturday, fune 2. 



