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Mr. Francis Y. Edgeworth, M.A.. Fellow of 

 All Souls' College, Oxford University, has been 

 re-elected to the Drninmond Professorship of Poli- 

 tical Economy. 



M. Draps-Doms, Vice-President of the Royal 

 Linnean Society of Brussels, has just received the 

 Cross of a Chevalier of the Order of Leopold. This 

 gentleman is a horticulturist at Laaken. 



The Minister of Education for Ontario has 

 issued the Archaeological Report, containing an 

 interesting article upon the human form in Indian 

 art. Many of the illustrations are curious and 

 suggestive. 



We have received a prospectus of the " Subject 

 Matter Index of Mining and Metallurgical Litera- 

 ture for the year 1900," which is shortly to be 

 published. The Index appears to be of a very 

 comprehensive character, and should prove useful. 



In the Transactions of the English Arboricultural 

 Society last issued is a report of the 19th annual 

 meeting held in Manchester. It is embellished by 

 photographs, including views taken in Dunham Park 

 and at Chatsworth. There is also a useful article 

 on the management of Delamere Forest in Cheshire. 



Messrs. Sanders & Crowhvrst. 71 Shaftesbury 

 Avenue, are issuing lantern slides, for lecture pur- 

 poses or private use, made from negatives of the 

 photographic illustrations in Mr. Oliver Pike's " In 

 Birdland." The slides exhibit seme pleasing pic- 

 tures of birds, nests, eggs, and young, in a state 

 of nature. The firm has also a new series of slides 

 of living animals. 



The Executive Committee of the " Yorkshire 

 Naturalists' Union " invite subscriptions for the 

 work, which has for some time past been in pre- 

 paration, on " The Birds of Yorkshire,"' commenced 

 by Mr. W. Eagle Clarke and continued by Mr. 

 Thomas H. Nelson. It includes selections from 

 the whole of the MSS. of the late John Cordeaux. 

 Ihe price will lie one guinea, and the subscription 

 is payable to the Honorary Secretaries, 259 Hyde 

 Park Road, Leeds. 



The Field Columbian Museum publications to 

 hand include Ncs. 55, " The Oraibi Loyal Cere- 

 mony," by G. A. Dorsey and H. R. Yoth ; 56, 

 " Archaeological Investigations on the Island of 

 La Plata, Ecuador," by G. A. Dorsey; 57, "A List 

 of Land and Sea Mammals of North America," by 

 D. G. Eliot ; 54 and 58, li Mammals obtained by 

 Thaddeus Surber in the Provinces of New Bruns- 

 wick and Quebec in Canada, and the States of 

 North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida." 

 They are beautifully illustrated, and of much value 

 to the students of the various subjects with which 

 they are concerned. 



Geologists who contemplate visiting the Antrim 

 coast will be glad to hear that, through the enter- 

 prise of the Northern Counties Railway Company 

 of Ireland, their explorations will "in future be 

 greatly facilitated. With much judgment and 

 complete avoidance of destruction of natural 

 beauty, a path has been taken around " The 

 Gobbins," a bold and wild series of rocky cliffs in 

 the district of Islandmagee, between Carrickfergus 

 and Lame. It is intended to carry this path still 

 further. Mr. R. Welch, the well-known photo- 

 grapher of Belfast, himself an enthusiastic natur- 

 alist, has issued some new photographs of the 

 district. 



IN the latest received " Proceedings " of the 

 Royal Society of Queensland are several articles 

 of more than local interest, including a monograph 

 on a malaria-carrying mosquito (Anopheles pietus). 



The London and Provincial Ornithological 

 Society this year provided an additional item of 

 interest at its sixteenth annual show of canaries, 

 foreign birds, and their hybrids, at the Crystal 

 Palace, in a singularly fine collection of stuffed 

 specimens both of British and foreign birds. 



At a recent meeting of the Entomological 

 Society Mr. F. B. Jennings exhibited a beetle 

 (Traeliyplrfaciis myrmecajjliilus) taken at Hastings, 

 remarkable in that the deciduous mandibles of the 

 pupal stage were retained in the perfect insect, 

 which consequently had two pairs of mandibles. 



Mr. Charles A. Snazelle is now established 

 in North London as a vendor of scientific books and 

 objects. Among the latter he holds an agency for 

 microscopic and lantern slides prepared by 

 J. Hornell, of Jersey, which will be convenient to 

 residents in the neighbourhood. His address is 

 i Tollington Park, N. 



The memorial to Sir Joseph Bazalgette, the 

 eminent engineer, which has been erected on the 

 face of one of the pylons of the Victoria Embank- 

 ment opposite Northumberland Avenue, was un- 

 veiled on November 6th by Mr. A. M. Torrance. 

 The memorial contains a portrait bust in bronze of 

 the deceased engineer. 



A short time ago we were favoured by the 

 Maryland Geological Survey with an atlas and 

 beautifully illustrated account of the geology of 

 Allegany County. The illustrated article on the 

 hydrography of its rivers is one of the more im- 

 portant, as it explains the manner of ascertaining 

 the speed and volume of the flowing water. 



Our readers will learn with interest that in the 

 last week of November the copyright of Charles 

 Darwin's " Origin of Species " expired. To com- 

 memorate this event Mr. John Murray has just 

 issued the complete work, of over 1,000 pages 

 and portrait of the author, bound in stiff paper, at 

 the extraordinarily low price of one shilling. 



The Division of Entomology in the U.S.A. 

 Department of Agriculture has issued a valuable 

 volume upon " some insects injurious to the rose, 

 violet, and other ornamental plants." This work 

 should be useful to those interested in then- growth 

 in Europe, as remedies are given, which might be 

 applied with success on this side of the Atlantic. 



We have received a supplementary catalogue of 

 lantern slides issued by Newton & Co., of Fleet 

 Street. London. There are many of scientific 

 interest, some being by recognised specialists, 

 such as Dr. H. R. D. Spitta, Dr. J. Leon Williams, 

 Professor R. W. Wood, and others. These slides 

 will be useful for winter lecture purposes, as they 

 represent widely different subjects. 



Scientific students visiting the geological 

 department of the British Museum will miss the 

 influence of Dr. Henry Woodward, F.R.S.. the 

 Keeper of Geology since 1880, who, we understand. 

 has completed his duties in the public service. 

 His term has been previously twice extended 

 beyond the usual age limit, his being one of those 

 cases in which strict enforcement of the usual 

 enactment is detrimental to the general welfare of 

 the scientific public. 



