July, 1889. 
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Taylor and W. Denison Roebuck, closes the book, which is very good 
in all respects. We can only suggest that in a future edition a few 
references should be given to the great standard works on the subject, 
where the “Young Collector” would find accurate pictures of the 
different shells to aid him in their identification; such works are 
usually to be found in most large public libraries. A. B. B. 
Manchester Microscopical Society. —From the annual report for 
1888 we learn that the Society consists of 222 members, and is in a 
flourishing condition. The transactions for the year include some 
interesting and valuable papers. One of the best is the Presidential 
Address on “ Inheritance,” by Professor A. Milnes Marshall, F.R.S. 
Some suggestive details are supplied of a course of systematic 
histological instruction given by members of the Society ; and other 
societies of the same kind might, we think, follow their example with 
advantage. The work done was the demonstration of the Structure, 
Chemistry and Physics of the Vegetable and Animal Cell. The course 
lasted about six months, and at the closing meeting of the session the 
chairman gave a resume of the work done, and there was an exhibition 
of nearly 100 slides under the microscope illustrative of the subjects 
of the demonstrations made during the course. 
University Intelligence.— Mr. G. C. Druce, of Oxford, a frequent 
contributor to these pages, and author of “ The Flora of Oxfordshire,” 
has had his merits as a scientific botanist honourably recognised 
by the University of Oxford, which has conferred upon him the dis¬ 
tinction of Honorary M.A. Another of our contributors, Mr. A. Bernard 
Badger, B.A., of New College, Oxford, has added to the previous honours 
won by bim at the same University. Lastyear he wasplaced in the First 
Class of the Final School of Natural Science after an examination in 
Morphology (Comparative Anatomy). This year he has again been 
placed in the First Class of the same Final School after an examina¬ 
tion in Geology, thus achieving the distinction of a Double First Class, 
He has also during the present year been elected to a Burdett-Coutts 
(University) Scholarship, which is given “for the promotion of the 
study of Geology and of Natural Science as bearing on Geology.” The 
following are some of the eminent men who have been Burdett-Coutts 
Scholars: Professor W. Boyd Dawkins. F.R.S. (1861), Professor E. Ray 
Lankester, F.R.S. (1869), and Mr. E. B. Poulton, F.R.S. (1878). 
Imports of jStotidtts. 
BIRMINGHAM NATURAL HISTORY AND MICROSCOPICAL 
SOCIETY.— Sociological Section. —Thursday, May 23rd. Mr. W. R. 
Hughes. F.L.S., in the chair. Miss Byett gave her exposition of the 
XVII. chap, of Herbert Spencer’s “First Principles,” entitled “Equili¬ 
bration.”—Tuesday, May 28th. Mr. W. R. Hughes, F.L.S., in the 
chair. Mr. Bagnall exhibited, for Miss J. R. Gingell, Polygonatum 
officinale , Convallaria majalis, Neottia Nidus avis, Habenaria bifolia, 
Cardavnine pratensis with double flowers, and Paris quadrifolia, showing 
variations in the number of floral leaves. Mr. W. B. Grove exhibited, 
for Mr. Wilkinson, Trichobasis scillarum, from the Lickey Hills. 
Mr. Hughes read his paper on “ A Trip to Dickens’s Land,” which gave 
