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SCIENCE- G OS SIP. 



The total amount realised at the sale by auction 

 of the Samuel Stevens collection, referred to in our 

 last number (page 379), was £835. This included 

 a few scientific books and the cabinets. 



Madeas has founded a new literary and scientific 

 monthly journal entitled " The Indian Keview." 

 We have received a specimen copy, and find it well 

 arranged and brightly conducted. 



We are requested by the principal of the Bur- 

 lington Classes to notify that candidates for 

 scientific and other degrees can be prepared by 

 correspondence. On application to 27 Chancery 

 Lane, London, W.C., particulars of the system 

 will be forwarded to applicants. 



A SPECIAL number of the " Photogram," No. 77, 

 was issued last month. It is remarkable as being 

 written entirely by men of the city of Birmingham. 

 The contents are of much technical value to photo- 

 graphers. The forty-two pages are beautifully 

 illustrated with thirty illustrations. 



The " Photogram " Publishing Company are about 

 to issue by subscription " An Index of Standard 

 Photograms." Particulars may be obtained from 

 Messrs. Dawbarn & Ward, Limited, Farringdon 

 Avenue, London, E.C. This new work of reference 

 promises to be of much value. 



We regret to record the death, on May 4th, of 

 Dr. Edmund Atkinson, one of the older generation 

 of men of science, and at one time assistant to the 

 late Sir Edward Frankland in the laboratory of 

 Owens College, Manchester. Dr. Atkinson was 

 perhaps best known as the translator of Ganot's 

 41 Physics." 



Two county lists, useful to entomologists, are 

 being issued by Mr. Claude Morley, F.E.S., of 16 

 Bath Street, Ipswich. They are the Coleoptera of 

 Suffolk, and the Hymenoptera Aculeata of the same 

 county. The names of species are accompanied by 

 full notes, and exact localities are given for the 

 rarer insects. 



Another report from the distributor to the 

 Botanical Exchange Club of the British Isles has 

 been issued. It is dated March, 1900, but refers to 

 the distribution for 1898. The number of specimens 

 sent in for exchange reached 3,273, and were re- 

 ceived from twenty-one contributors. The report 

 contains thirty pages of notes from members upon 

 the plants circulated for exchange. Many of these 

 remarks are of value. 



In connection with " The Scientific Boll," Mr. 

 A. Kamsay has entered upon a systematisation of 

 the literature, no matter how scattered or frag- 

 mentary, relating to bacteria. Mr. Ramsay appeals 

 for obscure references, and desires subscribers to 

 the three volumes, each of about 500 pages. The 

 work will be issued in parts at the rate of one 

 volume per year. The first part is to be issued in 

 September, 1900. Mr. Ramsay's address is 3 Cowper 

 Road, Acton, London, W, 



Owing to the absence of so many astronomers 

 who have gone abroad in the hope of observing the 

 total eclipse of the sun, the annual visitation to 

 Greenwich Observatory has been postponed to the 

 end of June. 



We are pleased to find from the balance-sheet 

 issued by the honorary treasurer of the North 

 London Natural History Society that the pro- 

 sperous condition was fully maintained during 

 last year. There is a substantial balance in favour 

 of the society, which has fully kept up to a high 

 standard the work done at its meetings. 



As not infrequently our readers have applied to 

 us for advice with regard to obtaining protection 

 for inventions, we may refer them and others to 

 Messrs. Rayner & Co., 37 Chancery Lane, London, 

 who pay especial attention to patents of a scientific 

 character. The experience of the firm is useful in 

 such cases. 



The International Committee, which has been 

 sitting at the Foreign Office, London, for the past 

 few weeks to consider the question of Interna- 

 tional agreement for the protection of wild animals, 

 birds, and fishes in South Africa, signed, on 

 May 19th, a joint convention aiming at the desired 

 protection. The exact terms of the agreement are 

 to be announced at a later date. 



It has been suggested that there are no means 

 of enforcing a " close time " for big game in 

 Central Africa. We do not agree with this opi- 

 nion. If a similar system to that in being in 

 the North-West of Canada is founded, there will 

 be little difficulty. There the informer gets a 

 large portion of the fine, and the native Indians 

 are excellent informers. This would equally apply 

 to the negroes. 



The Millport Marine Biological Station has 

 issued its annual report for 1899. Considerable 

 progress has been made during the year. This 

 station is under the patronage of the University of 

 Glasgow and a number of other learned and muni- 

 cipal Scotch bodies. It is managed by an influential 

 committee. The station is now prepared to receive 

 students to work at the tables, or will supply 

 material to those unable to visit the institution. 



The Egyptian Ministry of Finance have for- 

 warded to us the annual report for 1899 of the 

 Ghizeh Zoological Gardens, near Cairo, of which 

 Mr. Stanley S. Flower, F.Z.S., son of the late Sir 

 William Flower, F.R.S., is the director. During 

 the year 43,567 persons visited the gardens On 

 October 6th, 1899, there were on view 473 animals, 

 representing 132 species, exclusive of large numbers 

 of wild birds and other animals that are encouraged 

 to take up their abode in the gardens. A list of 

 these appears in the report. 



The South London Entomological and Natural 

 History Society has issued its Proceedings for 

 1899. The annual volume continues to increase 

 in importance, this issue containing 136 pages. 

 The report of the council and the balance-sheet 

 indicate a prosperous condition of the Society. 

 Fourteen papers were read at the meetings, several 

 of them, with the presidential address, appearing 

 in the volume before us. It is embellished by a 

 plate of some antennae of Psychides. Much use- 

 ful information may be gained from the reports of 

 the bi-monthly meetings. 



