FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS. 
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Memorials to Faraday. —The Chemical Society, wish¬ 
ing to honour the memory of its late distinguished Fellow, 
Professor Faraday, and at the same time to promote the 
personal intercourse of the society with eminent foreign 
chemists, has decided upon instituting a Faraday medal, to 
be awarded, from time to time, to some foreign chemist of 
distinction, upon his accepting the invitation of the president 
and council of the Chemical Society to deliver a lecture to its 
Fellows. The first lecture has already been given by M. 
Dumas, of Paris. 
Steps have also been taken to provide a public memorial to 
Faraday,/or which purpose a meeting, presided over by His 
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, has just been held at 
the Royal Institution. 
The Flockmasters and the Government Con¬ 
tagious Diseases (Animals) Bill. —A meeting of flock- 
masters has just been held at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich, 
to consider Mr. C. S. Read’s amendments to the Contagious 
Diseases (Animals) Bill. Mr. Read was present and was 
pressed to take the chair. On the motion of Mr. J. Brown, 
seconded by Mr. S. Gayford, the following resolution was 
passed:—^^That this meeting is of opinion that the Clauses 
of the Government Cattle Diseases (Animals) Bill relating 
to sheep-pox are amply sufficient for the protection of the 
British flockmaster.^^ A committee was afterwards appointed 
to consider what further steps should be taken .—Chamber of 
Ag ricuUure Journal and Farmers^ Chronicle. 
The Charity of the Turf. —We last year mentioned 
that a donation-box for St. George^s Hospital suspended at 
Tattersalfs rooms had produced the munificent sum of one 
florin as the charitable contribution of a number of gentlemen 
through whose hands large sums of money are constantly 
passing, and who look upon a fiver much as other people 
do a half-crown. We regret to learn that another yeaPs 
suspension of the aforesaid box has resulted in —emptiness ! 
The well-known liberality of a few leading members of the 
turf exonerates them from the charge of disregard to the 
wants of humanity; but as respects the great mass of 
^‘betting men^^ we fear the epithet hard-heartedis as 
appropriate as the more flattering title ‘‘hard-headed .^^—The 
Lancet. 
Change in the Colour of Leaves. —The green colour 
of leaves, one element of wffiich must be a vegetable blue, has 
led an American experimentalist to the conclusion, that leaves 
turn red at the end of the season through the action of an acid, 
