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kinds of tlie same instrument were shown upon the screen, followed 
by a photograph of the moon and observations thereon. The arctic 
regions and the wonderful canals discernible in Mars were demon¬ 
strated, as well as the peculiarities of the planet Saturn as seen by a 
telescope. Comets were touched upon, as also the sun and his system, 
our sun, the lecturer remarking, being only one of 50,000,000 suns. 
The whole of the heavens was reviewed by the telescope, and the 
lecturer concluded by a peroration on the infinity of space. The next 
lecture will be on the “ Animals of the Coal Period,” by Professor 
Miall, F.G.S.—E. Wheeler. 
OUR SUB-EDITORS. 
Mr. E. Wheeler, 45, Cromwell Road, Peterborough. 
Mr. T. J. Goldsmith, 7, Colsterwortli Terrace, Glebe Street, 
Nottingham. 
Mr. J. Hamson, Spring Road, Elstow, Bedford. 
Mr. J. W. Neville, Wellington Road, Handsworth. 
Rev. T. Foster Rolfe, Glascote, Tamworth. 
Mr. J. O’Sullivan, Stapenhill, Burton-on-Trent. 
Mr. Trios. W. Cave, M.R.C.Y.S., Broad Street, Nottingham. 
R. H. Law, Esq., Copthorne House, Shrewsbury. 
OUR METEOROLOGICAL COLUMN. 
The first three volumes of the “Midland Naturalist” contain tabu¬ 
lated meteorological returns from about sixty stations in the Midlands, 
with remarks on the weather of each month; the whole being edited by 
Mr.W. J. Harrison, who was then in charge of the meteorological instru¬ 
ments belonging to the Leicester Museum. On Mr. Harrison’s re¬ 
moval to Birmingham the work was continued for more than two years 
by Mr. Clement L. Wragge, whose work in connection with the obser¬ 
vatory on Ben Nevis has made him so generally known. Mr. Wragge 
left England last year in order to continue his observations abroad, 
and our meteorological column was temporarily discontinued. We 
have now much pleasure in announcing that Mr. Wm. Berridge, F.M.S., 
of 12, Victoria Street, Loughborough, has consented to act as sub-editor 
for meteorology, and we earnestly ask all who are interested in that 
subject to send their observations to him monthly, in order that he may 
be supplied with the material for a resume of the atmospheric con¬ 
ditions of the Midlands. It is not Mr. Berridge’s intention to revive 
the old “page of figures;” the statistics formerly so given are now 
printed elsewhere—in the Meteorological Magazine, the Proceedings of 
the Meteorological Society, the publications of the Government Weather 
Office, Ac.—where experts can refer to them, while in our columns 
they were “caviare to the general.” Still Mr. Berridge will be thank¬ 
ful to receive all such information, and will work it up with such notes 
on the connection of plants and animals with atmospheric phenomena, 
&c., as he may receive. We consider ourselves fortunate in securing 
the services of so able and accurate a meteorologist, to act as a sub¬ 
editor. Mr. Berridge has lately been appointed Observer to the 
Meteorological Department of the Board of Trade, and Loughborough 
now supplants Nottingham as one of the centres yielding information 
from which the Daily Weather Charts are prepared. 
