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Observatory was formally transferred by the Lick Trustees to 

 the Regents of the University of California on the first of June. 

 The expenditures leave about 90,000 dollars of the fund for the 

 expenses of care and use — a small sum which the University 

 hopes to see raised by further beneficence from the wealth. of the 

 State to a million. The address of the officers of the Observatory 

 is "Lick Observatory, Mt. Hamilton, via San Jose, California." 

 The officers connected with the observatory are : Edward S. Hol- 

 den, director and astronomer, S. W. Burnham, J. M. Schseberle, 

 J. E. Keeler and E. E. Barnard, astronomers, and C. B. Hill, 

 assistant astronomer, secretary and librarian. 



4. A matter of interest to Societies, Libraries and Geologists. 

 — Any institution or individual desiring to obtain the publications 

 which will be distributed to the members of the approaching 

 Geological Congress in London, as well as the published volume 

 of its Proceedings, may accomplish this by sending ten shillings 

 (about $2.50) to " William Topley, Esq., Gen. Secretary of the 

 Committee on organization of the London Geological Congress, 

 Museum, 28 Jermyn St., London," stating the name of the sender 

 and the object of the sum enclosed. Some of the publications 

 thus obtained will have great value and cannot be otherwise pre- 

 served. Each of the two volumes of the Proceedings of previous 

 sessions of this Congress which have yet been published (those 

 of Paris and Bologna) are difficult to procure and cost much more 

 than the sum above mentioned. p. f. 



5. The next session of the International Geological Congress 

 (the 4th) will open on the lVth of September. All persons desiring 

 to become members are requested to address the secretary at an 

 early date, mentioning their names in full, places of residence, 

 and positions or 'titles. The fee is ten shillings. Members who 

 have paid the fee will be entitled to the Proceedings and other 

 ordinary publications of the Congress, whether present at the 

 meeting or not. Professor Prestwich is president of the meeting. 



6. Hay den Memorial Geological Fund. — Mrs. Emma W. Hay- 

 den has given to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- 

 phia in trust the sum of $2,500, to be known as the Hayden 

 Memorial Geological Fund in commemoration of her husband, 

 the late Prof. Ferdinand V. Hayden, LL.D. According to the 

 terms of the trust a bronze medal and the balance of the interest 

 arising from the fund are to be awarded annually for the best 

 publication, exploration, discovery or research in the science of 

 geology, and paleontology, or in such particular branches thereof 

 as may be designated. The award and all matters connected 

 therewith are to be determined by a committee to be selected in 

 an appropriate manner by the Academy. The recognition is not 

 to be confined to American naturalists. 



Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, May 10, 1888. 

 1. Medals of the Geological Society of London. — At the an- 

 niversary meeting of this Society in February last, the Wollaston 

 gold medal was awarded to Mr. II. B. Medlicott ; the Murchison 



