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some mountain elevations of not less than 6000 feet above the sea- 
level, as tried and found feasible by him in a first experiment on 
the Peak of Teneriffe. The testator also bequeaths to the Society 
all his books of original drawings and journals, and all his boxes 
of glass photographs, and likewise his portrait by Mr Faed, R.S.A. 
It was announced in the Times of 31st May of this year that 
the Government had appointed a Committee, inter alia , for suggest- 
ing changes in the staff and arrangements necessary for bringing 
the Geological Survey in its more general features to a speedy and 
satisfactory termination, and in connection with this, the following 
representation was submitted to the Committee on the part of the 
Society : — 
“The Council, in the interest alike of science and of the 
industrial or economic development of the country, wishes to 
express its conviction that no termination of the Survey will he 
considered satisfactory in Scotland unless the survey of the 
country is completed on the 6-inch scale, and its hope that, what- 
ever arrangements the Committee may recommend, this specially 
important point will be kept in view. 
“Should it be desired by the Committee, the Council is prepared 
to send representatives to give evidence regarding the future work 
of the Geological Survey in Scotland.” 
The President and Council of the Royal Society of London have 
made a Grant towards meeting the expense of publishing the 
Observations made at the Ben Nevis Observatory of a sum corre- 
sponding to the half of the whole expenditure expected to be 
incurred. The half will amount to £500. The Royal Society 
of Edinburgh will pay the other half. 
Dr Copeland, Astronomer-Royal for Scotland, and his Assistant, 
Mr Heath, proceeded to Santa Pola in Spain, with suitable 
apparatus, to- observe the eclipse of the sun. 
The Society continues to take a great interest in Antarctic 
Exploration. A British Expedition will sail next year for the ex- 
ploration of that part of the Antarctic Continent which lies south of 
the Pacific Ocean, and a German Expedition will explore that part 
of the Continent which lies south of the Indian Ocean. But 
expeditions limited to the investigation of these regions will leave 
a considerable part of the great South Polar Continent unexplored. 
