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and it is particularly efficient for producing fluorescent and photographie 
effects. Very remarkable fluorescence may be obtained by exposing to 
the light a paste made of powdered platino-cyanid of barium and gum 
arabic.—Les Mondes, June 22. 
2. The Rumford Premium.—The American Academy of Arts and 
Sciences, at its annual meeting on the 23d of May last, voted: “That- 
Treadwell, for Improvements in management of heat, embodied in 
his investigations and inventions relating to the construction of cannon 
bl 
of large calibre, and of great strength and endurance.’ : 
3 Prince Albert Medal.—This gold medal, founded by the Society 
of Arts in honor of the memory of its late President, his Royal High- 
ness Prince Albert, has been given this year to the French Emperor, 
Napoleon, for his encouragement of the arts, manufactures and com- 
merce, his patronage of the fine arts, etc. 
4, oration of the Urals.—Von Helmersen, of St. Petersburg, has 
been commissioned by the Russian Government to explore the central 
parts of the Urals, with special reference to the discovery of coal, which 
some geologists of distinction have thought to exist there. 
iner ers.—Scouteten, in a paper read before the Academy 
and will make regular announcements of all meteorological phenomena, 
storms, etc., to the bureau. The atmospheric bulletins of the principal 
cities of Europe, containing especially whatever relates to the progress 0 
storms, will be placarded in the principal seaports. 
8. Goeppert on the Dia .—Goeppert has published his essay on 
the organic nature of the diamond. He shows that it cannot be of ig- 
_ heous origin; for it turns black when highly heated. Moreover it con- 
tains sometimes, besides other crystals, germs of Fungi, and fibres 
vegetable structures higher in organization. 
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OBITUARY, 
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Metier, died in July, at Paris, in his fifty-ninth year. 
. Samozt P. Woopwarp, F.G.S., a member of the Council of the 
Geological sy died at Herne Bay, on the 11th of July, at the age 
_ of forty-three. Dr. Woodward was assistant in the department of geol- 
ogy and mineralogy in the British Museum. He is the author of various 
_ Scientific papers, and 
excellent work “A Manual of Recent and Fossil Shells.” ie 
Lu ied in Kent in June last, in his 
He was one of the Vice Presidents of the Royal Society. 
J. Hooxzr, the eminent botanist, died in August. 
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