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elected as members :—Mr. Amias Charles Andros, Resi- 
dent Engineer of the New Dock Works, Leith ; Mr. Henry 
David Furness, Locomotive Superintendent of the Riga- 
Dunaburgh and Dunaberg-Witepsk Railwaws; Mr. Robert 
Edward Johnston, Engineer of the Shrewsbury and Here- 
ford, Shrewsbury and Wellington, and Shrewsbury and 
Welshpool Railways; Mr. William Jarvis McAlpine, New 
York; and Mr. Allan Wilson, Westminster: as associates, 
Mr. Horace Bell, Executive Engineer, Public Works Le- 
partment, Bengal; Mr. Francis Bramah Gilbertson, Sou-h 
Eastern Railway of Portugal; Mr. Spencer Herepa-., 
Kensington ; Mr. George Houghton, Resident Fngineer on 
the Berlin Gorlitzer Railway ; Mr. Charles Harlowe Lowe, 
Assistant Surveyor of St. Marylebone; Major William e 
Palliser, Army and Navy Club; and Mr. Edward Pritchard, 
Surveyor to the Local Board, Bedford, Lancashire. 
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC GLEANINGS. 
WE call our reader’s attention to the “ Walking-stick 
blow-tube,” invented (by Mr. E. Lang, the well-known gun 
maker, of Cockspur street) on the principle of the air-gun. 
It is certainly the cheapest thing of the kind we have seen. 
It consists of a brass tube, 36 inches in length, the calibre, 
being 38 (gun guage). This tube is perfectly straight and 
very smooth inside, and is encased in a bamboo cane, with 
mouthpiece and ferule, to form a walking-stick. We have 
tried its powers, and find that, at from 20 to 30 yards, the 
dart will penetrate the thickest tin canister. [t is readily 
used, and its simplicity is perhaps its greatest recom- 
mendation. | 
NEWSPAPER STATISTICS.—From the Mewspaper Press 
Dictionary for 1867 we extract the following on the present 
position of the Newspaper Press :— 
There are now published in the United Kingdom 1,204 News- 
papers, distributed as follows :— 
England— 
London ... iis 48 es 241 
Provincial sy cae Ph 724—965 
Wales 48 ay 28 ree ae, 49 
meotand: * -22) ne ha oe ae 138 
Ireland ae Any on Hh Ae 128 
British Isles ad teh ced re 14 
