June, 1891. 
SCIENTIFIC GLEANINGS. 
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Sricntifit Cleanings. 
Lord Derby has been appointed to be Chancellor of the University 
of London in the place of Lord Granville, deceased. 
Mr. William Langdon, in a recent paper read at an ordinary meet¬ 
ing of the Institution of Royal Engineers, advocated electric lighting 
as the best in all respects for the lighting of railway trains. 
The Physical Society of London held a special meeting at Cam¬ 
bridge on May 9th, at the Cavendish Laboratory. Opportunity was 
afforded for members to visit the Cavendish and other University 
Laboratories. 
The Annual Meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute began at 
the Institute of Civil Engineers, in Great George Street, London, on 
the 6th of May, and continued on the 7th. The autumn meeting of 
the Institute will most probably be held at Birmingham. 
Dr. Thomas Dutton, in his practical treatise on “Sea Sickness” 
(Bailliere, Tindall, and Cox), states that there is “ no absolute specific ” 
for this distressing malady. 
The Philosophical Society of Berlin offers a prize of 1,000 marks 
for the best essay on the relation of philosophy to the empirical science 
of nature. The essays may be in German, French, English, or Latin, 
but must be sent in before April 1st, 1893. 
The Conversazione of the Society of Arts will be held at the South 
Kensington Museum on the same evening as that announced for the 
Ladies’ soiree of the Royal Society. 
The Ladies’ Soiree of the Royal Society is announced for Wed¬ 
nesday, June 17th. 
Professor Carl Wilhelm von Nageli, the eminent botanist, died 
at Munich, on the 10th of May, in his 74th year. 
An old Birminghabi man, the Rev. H. N. Hutchinson, has under¬ 
taken to write a manual of physical geology for Messrs. Swan, 
Sonnenschein, and Co.’s “ Introductory Science Text Books.” 
The Opening Meeting of the International Congress of Hygiene 
and Demography will be held in London on Monday, August 10th, at 
3 30, when the Prince of Wales will preside. 
A valuable and very interesting book of African travel has been 
recently issued, “Across East African Glaciers: an Account of the 
First Ascent of Kilimanjaro” (19,700 feet), by Dr. Hans Meyer. It 
is well illustrated, and is published by Messrs. George Philip and Son, 
London. 
Messrs. Macmillan and Co. have just published “ Natural Selec¬ 
tion and Tropical Nature : Essays on Descriptive and Theoretical 
Biology,” by Mr. A. R. Wallace. The text has been carefully revised 
and some important additions made. 
A valuable bequest has been made to the Department of Science 
and Art by the late Miss Marshal). In addition to a large number of 
scientific books and instruments which are left for the use of students, 
a sum of £1,000 is bequeathed for the founding of scholarships, or for 
application in any other way that may be considered best for the 
advancement of biological science. 
