1048 Scientific News. 
Indies, £100; Marine Biological Association, £200; Flora of 
China, £25; Physiology of the Lymphatic System, £25; Deep- 
sea Tow-net, £10 ; Natural History of the Friendly Islands, £100 ; 
Geography and Geology of the Atlas Range £100; Effect of 
Occupation on Physical Development, £20; Northwestern Tribes 
of Canada, £150; New Edition of Anthropological Notes and 
Queries, £50; Calculating the Anthropological Measurements 
taken at Bath, £5; Exploration of Roman Baths at Bath, £100; 
Characteristics of Nomad Tribes of Asia Minor, £30. Apparently 
no grant was made this year for the Zoological Record, a work 
which may well be allowed to lapse, since its place is so much 
better filled by the Naples “ Jahresbericht.” 
—ReEwarps FOR MERITORIOUS DISCOVERIES AND INVENTIONS. 
—The Committee on Science and the Arts of the Franklin Institute, 
of the State of Pennsylvania, is empowered to award, or to recom- 
mend the award of, certain medals for meritorious discoveries and 
inventions, which tend to the progress of the arts and manufactures. 
These medals are :— i 
1.—The Elliott Cresson Medal (gold), to be awarded either for 
some discovery in the arts and sciences, or for the invention or 1m- 
provement of some useful machine, or for some new process, OF 
combination of materials in manufactures, or for ingenuity, skill, or 
perfection in workmanship. 
2.—The John Scott Legacy Premium and Medal (twenty dol- 
lars and a medal of copper) was founded in 1816, by John Scott, a 
merchant of Edinburgh, Scotland, who bequeathed to the City of 
Philadelphia a considerable sum of money, the interest of which 
should be devoted to rewarding ingenious men and women who | 
make useful inventions. The premium is not to exceed twenty 
dollars, and the medal is to be of copper, and inscribed “ To the most 
eser'ving.” 
—The following is taken from the New York Herald: The Pea- 
body Museum of American Archeology and Ethnology, of Cam- 
view to a thorough ethnological and archæological study = ae 
ruins in that country. The expedition will occupy several er v6 
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