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SCIENTIFIC GLEANINGS. 
June, 1891. 
The Fourth Summer Meeting of the Oxford University Exten¬ 
sion Students will be held at Oxford, and be divided into two parts. 
The first will commence on Friday, July 31st, and end Tuesday, 
August 11th. The second part will commence ou August 12th, and 
end on August 31st. 
An account of the Birmingham School of Medicine (Queen’s 
College) has recently been published. The authors are Dr. B. C. A. 
Windle and Professor W. Hillhouse, M.A., F.L.S., Ac. Their inten¬ 
tion is to show—and this they do effectually—that Birmingham 
possesses one of the best equipped schools of medicine in the 
provinces. 
Miss Ormerod has just issued a valuable pamphlet on “Paris 
Green,” an excellent insecticide, which can be relied on to destroy 
caterpillars on fruit trees, &c., provided it is applied properly. Her 
pamphlet gives ample instruction on this and all other points about 
which the fruit grower is likely to require information. The pamphlet 
can be obtained on application to Miss Ormerod, Torrington House, 
St. Albans. 
Some recent observations indicate that the catch of fish off the 
Cornish coast this season is larger than usual. On the 18th March 
last 12,000 grey mullet were captured at Whitsaud Bay, Land’s End. 
On the 31st of March a Lowestoft mackerel driver, fishing some 
leagues south-west of the Lizard, took 48,000 mackerel. This must 
have been an extraordinary aotch. It is said to have realised 
£360. 
In a Paper on the Humble Bee in New Zealand, published in the 
revived “ New Zealand Journal of Science,” the author says, in refer¬ 
ence to the question of how far these insects are adapting themselves 
to new flowers in the colony, that he has noticed them on many 
species of introduced plants which they usually never visit in 
Europe. They seldom approach white flowers, and, with the excep¬ 
tion of Fuchsia excorticata and the Ngaio (Myoporum latum), he has 
never heard of their visiting indigenous flowers. 
At the recent anniversary meeting (the sixty-second) of the 
Zoological Society, the following were elected new members of the 
Council in the place of retiring members :—Mr. William T. Blanford, 
F.R.S., Dr. Albert Gunther, F.R.S., Mr. E. W. N. Holdswortli, Sir 
Albert K. Rollit, M.P., and Mr. Howard Saunders. Professor Flow T er. 
C.B., F.R.S., was re-elected President, Mr. Charles Drummond 
Treasurer, and Dr. Philip Lutley Sclater, F.R.S., Secretary for the 
ensuing year. The accounts were very satisfactory. Balance for¬ 
ward, £1,242 13s. lid. ; receipts, £25,059 17s. lOd. ; total, £26,302 
11s. 9d. ; expenditure, £23,572 11s. 5d. 
The general programme for the Cardiff meeting of the British 
Association has now been settled. The first meeting will be held on 
Wednesday, August 19, at 8 p.m., when Sir F. Abel, K.C.B., will 
resign the chair to the President elect, Dr. William Huggins, who 
will deliver an address. The following evening there will be a soiree 
at 8 p.m. On Friday, August 21, at 8 30, Professor L. C. Miall will 
deliver an address on “ Some Difficulties in the Life of Aquatic 
Insects.” On Monday, August 24, at 8 30 p.m., there will be a dis¬ 
course by Professor T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S. ; the following evening, 
at 8, there will be a soiree. The concluding general meeting will take 
place on Wednesday, August 26, at 2 30 p.m. 
