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POPULAR SCIENCE REVIEW. 
The death of Professor Quekett made a vacancy in the curatorship of 
the Hunterian Museum at the College of Surgeons. Several distinguished 
men have come forward as candidates for the vacant post, which has not 
yet been filled up. We have already referred to the unfortunate circum- 
stances which aggravate the loss of Professor Quekett, and commend the 
subject to the consideration of our readers. 
The candidates for examination for science certificates at the annual exa- 
mination of the Science and Art Department, in November, were more 
numerous than in 1860. A great increase has taken place in the Depart- 
ment of Natural History. In animal physiology and zoology, upwards of 
thirty candidates were examined, whilst in vegetable physiology and 
systematic botany there were seventeen. These numbers are against six 
altogether, who presented themselves in the two previous years.* 
* The contributors to our Quarterly Retrospect and Summary (the 
perfecting of which engages our earnest attention), are, at present, 
Mr. James Breen; Dr. Cuthbert Collingwood, B.A., Oxon ; Mr. William 
Crookes, F.C.S. ; the Editor ; Mr. Robert Hunt, F.R.S. ; Dr. Lankester, 
F.R.S. ; Mr. Harry Seeley, Woodwardian Museum, Cambridge ; and 
Mr. W. C. Unwin, B.Sc. 
