1885.] 
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NOTES. 
We learn with satisfaction that Mr. A. Anthony Nesbit, F.C.S. 
is about to offer himself as a candidate for the position’ of Con- 
sulting Chemist to the Royal Agricultural Society, vacant by the 
death of Dr. A. Voelcker. Mr. Nesbit is the son and successor 
of the late J. C. Nesbit, P.G.S., F.C.S., &c., who up to his pre- 
mature death was considered the most eminent agricultural 
chemist in England. Mr. A. A. Nesbit has carried out with 
success many delicate chemico-physiological researches, for 
accounts of some of which we may refer to the “ Journal of 
Science (iv., pp. 430, 565, and v., p. 304). Mr. Nesbit has our 
best wishes for success in his candidature. 
At a congress of French learned societies, to be held at the 
Sorbonne in the course of this year, there will be examined the 
mode of topographical distribution of each animal species inha- 
biting the coasts of France ; the regions of the French rivers 
frequented by each species, fish, crustacean, or mollusk, noting 
the times of arrival and departure, if not stationary, and the 
time of spawning ; the periodic phenomena of vegetation at the 
epochs of the arrival and departure of birds of passage, at 
the date of the appearance of the chief species of inserts hurt- 
ful to agriculture, &c. ; the relations between the varieties of 
zoological or botanical species, and the conditions in which the 
representatives of each live (altitude, dryness or moisture, &c.). 
On October 25th, at 7 a.m., the coldest point in Europe was in 
the neighbourhood of Paris, where a temperature of — o^ 0 w'as 
registered. At Haparanda, near the head of the Gulf of Bothnia, 
the temperature was +4'5°, as also at St. Petersburg and Mos- 
cow. In the north of Scotland, and over a great part of the 
North Sea, the thermometer marked upwards of io°. 
Prof. C. V. Riley (American Association) has traced the habits 
of Chlcenius impunctifrons from the egg upwards. The eggs are 
laid singly, in cells made of clay or mud, on the under surface of 
leaves. 
An International Exhibition of Animals is to take place next 
year at Buda-Pesth. 
At Bhosawul, in India (“ Ciel et Terre ”), there fell in the 
space of twelve hours, in the night between January 1st and 2nd, 
1883, 385 millimetres of rain, or about 15 inches. 
