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paid for by any city out of the appropriation for the schools, and 
wholly directed by the school committee. is is a Movement 
which we feel sure will eventually be adopted in other towns and 
cities. We have long advocated the plan of having in each town 
or city a skilled teacher of natural history, who should give the 
instruction in elementary botany, zodlogy and geology in the 
schoois of different grades. There is, in most towns, a person 
with a decided taste for these studies, who, with comparatively 
little expense, could give at least weekly object lessons in the dif- 
ferent schools and to different classes in the same schools. Bring- 
ing zeal and practical knowledge at first hand to his work, such a 
teacher would do vastly more to interest scholars than the pres- 
ent method of requiring each school to supply its own teacher, 
who has to impart knowledge in numerous dissociated studies. 
— Prof. Wm. Boyd Dawkins, of Owen’s College, Manchester, 
England, has been invited to deliver a course of twelve lectures 
on “ Prehistoric Man,” before the Lowell Institute, Boston, Mass., 
the coming autumn. Prof. Dawkins is one of the most eminent 
of the younger scientific men of Great Britain, and has already 
become a standard authority in comparative anatomy and pre- 
historic archeology. He is a graduate of the University of 
Oxford, was principal geologist in H. M. Geological Survey in 
1867, professor of geology in Owen's College, 1874, president 
of the Manchester Geological Society; and is the author of 
many essays and memoirs in the Royal Geological and Anthro- 
pological Societies. He published, in 1874, a popular volume 
showing great research, on “Cave Hunting, or Researches on the 
evidences of caves respecting the early inhabitants of Europe,” 
and the present year a second volume has appeared on “ Early 
Man in Britain and his place in the Tertiary period,” which is 
exciting much attention. He is forty-two years of age. ` 
—- The annual meeting of the Entomological Club of the 
American Association for the Advancement of Science will be 
held at the Museum of the Boston Society of Natural History, 
corner of Berkeley and Boylston streets, Boston, commencing at 
2 P.M., Tuesday, 24 August, 1880. There will be an informal so- 
cial gathering of entomologists at the rooms of the Boston So- 
