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The latest issued is entitled " The Great 'Winter : a 

 Chapter in Geology," and was read before the 

 Philosophical Society of Glasgow. 



We gladly welcome the first part of the " Journal 

 of the Institute of Jamaica," doubtless edited by 

 the newly -appointed . secretary (an old correspondent 

 of Science-Gossip). Mr. T. D. Cockerell. He has 

 not been long in'getting into harness, for this number 

 contains two original papers by him. 



The rights for the patent of Larranga's Photo- 

 Phonograph have been abandoned by the inventor, 

 who "gives them to the world." A pamphlet on 

 this subject has been issued by Dr. J. Maier (London : 

 Whitehead, Morris & Co., Fenchurch Street). 



The Norwich " Science Gossip " Club was founded 

 by the present editor of the magazine two years 

 before he became editor. It has endured ever since, 

 and is now one»of-the strongest and healthiest of 

 popular science clubs in England. Their present 

 "Report" will] give people a good idea of this 

 typical social and scientific club, inasmuch as it 

 contains capital abstracts of the papers read during 

 the past year. 



W e would draw the attention of our microscopical 

 readers to Mr. Hesketh Walker's interesting catalogue 

 f " Microscopic Sundries, ".and Specialities Labora- 

 tory, 12 Church St., LiverpooL 



The -sixth number of the " Mediterranean 

 Naturalist" (edited by Mr. J. H. Cooke) has 

 reached us. This periodical is a real gain to natural 

 science, as it correctly collects for us the geology, 

 zoology, and botany of the coasts of the most 

 interesting and!most historic sea in the world. 



The Institute of Marine Engineers held a very 

 successful conversazione in the Town Hall, on 

 December nth. A capital programme was issued, 

 and one sent to us ; but we would suggest that 

 another time a better- correlation of gold lettering 

 with a different colour tone is required from a 

 scientific society, so that people may be better able 

 to read the programme. 



We have received from Mr. F. L. Dames, natural 

 history and scientific bookseller, 47 Tauben Strasse, 

 Berlin, a series of his catalogues, comprising 

 pamphlets, books, etc., on every department of 

 natural history, botany, zoology, geology, palaeon- 

 tology, mineralogy, chemistry, physics, etc. The 

 latest issued includes 350 works on diatoms and 

 desmids, and 250 on algology and microscopy alone. 



We cordially welcome M. Tempere's 7th, or 

 December part of " Le : Diatomiste." This will 

 prove the best work of its kind yet issued. The 

 illustrations are of an unusually high-class character 

 (London : Bailliere & Co.). 



We are glad to draw attention to Mr. F. V. 

 Theobald's Part II., "Account of British Flies" 

 (London : Elliot Stock). This will prove a most 

 useful book for intending students of British Diptera. 



A FUND is very properly being raised under the 

 auspices of the Royal Microscopical Society, for the 

 benefit of the widow and nine children left by the late 

 Mr. John Mayall jun., the active, well-known, and 

 highly esteemed secretary of the Society. Scientific 

 men work frequently for anything but money, and 

 this is an instance where our wealthier scientific 

 brethren have the opportunity of being helpful. 



Dr. A. Irving read an interesting and very sug- 

 gestive paper at the early December Meeting of the 

 Geologists' Association, on " Organic matter as a 

 Geological Agent." 



The "Geological Photographs" Committee ap- 

 pointed by the British Association in 1889, have 

 issued another Report, in which they state that as yet 

 not one half of the British counties are represented in 

 the collection. Here is a good and useful opening for 

 our increasing army of amateur photographers. 



Our Geological readers should procure Dr. Charles 

 Ricketts' paper (Presidential Address to the Liverpool 

 Geological Society) on " Some Phenomena which 

 occurred during the Glacial Epoch." No English 

 geologist is better posted in our British glacial geology 

 than Dr. Ricketts. 



We commend to all those interested in the subject 

 of Technical Education (and suggest they should 

 procure it), the Syllabus of the Nicholson Institute, 

 Leek, Staffordshire. It is the best programme of 

 good work we have seen published. 



Mr. Edward Wilson, the well-known and able 

 curator of the Bristol Museum, recently published in 

 the " Geological Magazine," a paper " On a Specimen 

 of Waldhtimia perforata, showing Original Colour- 

 marking." This interesting specimen was discovered 

 by Mr. J. W. Marshall, of Bristol, an enthusiastic 

 collector of Jurassic Brachiopoda. We have fre- 

 quently found near Castleton, Derbyshire, specimens 

 of Terebratula hastata, retaining their original colour- 

 bands. 



A CAPITAL and most useful brochure has just been 

 written by Mr. Edvyard Whimper, and published by 

 John Murray, on " How to use the Aneroid Baro- 

 meter." 



The last issue of the Guernsey Society of Natural 

 Science and Local Research is a capital number. It 

 contains papers on " The Correlation and Relative 

 Ages of the Rocks of the Channel Islands," by Mr. 

 C. G. De la Mare; an account of "A Dredging 

 Excursion off Guernsey " (we should like above all 



