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[August, 
M. Venukoff (“ Comptes Rendus ”) gives a summary of the 
scientific results obtained by Col. Prejevalsky in his last Expe- 
dition in Central Asia. He has established the former existence 
of glaciation on a vast scale in the north of Thibet. He notices 
strong westerly tempests, unaccompanied by lightning, which 
occur almost daily in the deserts of Dzoungaria and on the table- 
lands of Thibet. His collections include 90 species of mammals, 
400 of birds, 50 of reptiles, 53 of fishes, an unknown number of 
insedts, 1500 plants. He has discovered the horse and the camel 
in their wild state, and the mountain goose. The animals were 
so accustomed to man that they showed no alarm even after 
some of their number had been shot. He clearly traces the origin 
of the loess, so vastly developed in Eastern Asia, to the aCtion 
not of water, but of wind. This amount of work is all the more 
wonderful if we consider that scientific research is, after all, not 
the esoteric motive of the Expeditions of Col. Prejevalsky. 
Prince Roland Bonaparte is about to publish a series of essays 
on anthropology, 
Prof. Huxley, in the recent Rede LeCture at Cambridge, sur- 
prised his hearers by producing an extremely Evolutionist passage 
to be found in the “ Natural Theology ” of Archdeacon Paley ! 
The Albert Medal of the Society of Arts has this year been 
awarded to Sir Joseph D. Hooker. 
A strange incident happened at one of M. Brown-Sequard’s 
LeCtures on Experimental Physiology, at the College de France. 
As he was about to begin his operation a female Bestiarian 
dashed the scalpel out of his hand with her umbrella. She was 
removed by a policeman, protesting volubly all the way. 
Miss S. L. Andrew (“ Popular Science Monthly ”) gives inte- 
resting particulars fully proving that the common garden petunia 
(P. gvandiflora) is an insectivorous plant. (Everyone must have 
noticed that its odour is very attractive to inseCts, especially at 
nightfall, but the purpose of the attraction was hitherto unsus- 
pected.) 
M. Daubree (“ Comptes Rendus ”) gives an account of a 
meteorite which fell between Nogoga and Concepcion, in the 
province of Entre-Rios, La Plata. It belongs to the rare class 
containing carbon in a state of organic combination. 
According to the “ Spiritual Record,” “ Stuart Cumberland ” 
is now practising vigorously in America. 
The Rolleston Memorial Fund reaches £1200, and has been 
delivered over to the University of Oxford to found a prize for 
original research in animal and vegetable morphology and phy- 
siology, which will be awarded every two years, 
