. Nature . ong years past has taken somuch interest in zoology in connection with Christ Church,Oxford, and who well merits this tribute of respect andconfidence from Prof. Cams. Those whose knowledge ofzoology in Oxford only dates from the period of the NewMuseum, and who have no leisure for mastering thedetails of the past, may not be aware how much the col-lection of zoology and comparative anatomy owes to thelabours of Victor Cams, who collected, we believe, for SirHenry Acland during a great part of 1850, at the ScillyIslands, the series of British Invertebrates then placed inChrist Churc
. Nature . ong years past has taken somuch interest in zoology in connection with Christ Church,Oxford, and who well merits this tribute of respect andconfidence from Prof. Cams. Those whose knowledge ofzoology in Oxford only dates from the period of the NewMuseum, and who have no leisure for mastering thedetails of the past, may not be aware how much the col-lection of zoology and comparative anatomy owes to thelabours of Victor Cams, who collected, we believe, for SirHenry Acland during a great part of 1850, at the ScillyIslands, the series of British Invertebrates then placed inChrist Church Museum, and now Prof. Carus, havingtaken a larger area within his grasp, associates this Pro-domus of its Fauna with our Oxford Professor, as a signand token that he has not forgotten those earlier days. 067? FUTURE CLOCKS AND WATCHEST N connection with what we have said before on this sub-■*■ ject we give a drawing of the new dial in use on someof the American railways where the new system is already. at work, the clocks indicating a certain number of hoursplus Greenwich, according to the longitude of the section. NA TURE [Jan. i, 1885 The intersection of the two circles of figures serves thepurpose of giving day hours inside and night hours out-side. NOTES The Congress of the United States some time ago appointeda joint committee of senators and representatives to consider theorganisation of the different bureaux of the Government. Thisspecial commission is now hearing the depositions of wit-nesses. The evidence of Major Powell, Director of the Geo-logical Survey, has just been published. The principalfeature of this document is the proposal to give the adminis-tration of the different bureaux to the Smithsonian should be noted that the National Academy of Sciencespassed some time back a resolution asking that a special adminis-tration should be created for the purpose. The Committee ofthe Academy recommended the establishment of a physicalobservatory to
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