144 NOTES—ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.
The touch about the Spanish Armada is pleasant, and the pony, so far as
I am concerned, is a new feature in the picture. Perhaps some one remembers
making in his own person an experiment from which Mr. Hare, schoolboy
though he was, seems to have shrunk. But stay—I am forgetting that he
tells us he never had any pocket-money, even after he had arrived at years of
more than discretion.—W. C. Waller, Loughton.
The late Sir Richard Owen.—It will be remembered that in 1893 the
Club subscribed £3 3s. towards the Fund then being raised to place a
statue of the late Director in the British Museum of Natural History, Sir
Richard having been one of our Honorary Members, and having on several
occasions shown great kindness and courtesy to the Club. We are now
informed by a circular dated June 3rd, 1897, signed by Sir Wm. Flower and
Mr. W. Percy Sladen, that the "work inaugurated at the meeting held in the
rooms of the Royal Society on the 21st January, 1893, under the presidency
of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, K.G., has been completed. The bronze
statute of the late Sir Richard Owen, executed by Mr. Thomas Brock, R.A.,
is now placed in the hall of the Natural History Museum. It is pronounced
by all who were personally acquainted with the great anatomist to be an
admirable likeness, and worthy of the position which it occupies.....
The Numidian Marble pedestal has been provided by the Trustees of the
British Museum." The fund raised amounted to £1,103 8s. 11d., and the very
numerous and eminent names in the list of subscribers testifies to the estima-
tion and reverence which the name of Owen must ever bear among men of
science.—Ed.
Harwich as a Port of Entry.—It is not natural history, but it is worth
noting as a fact not generally known that Parkeston stands fourth on the list
of English ports for the value of its imports—those above it being Hull,
Liverpool and London. The value of the total imports unloaded at Parkeston
last year was £18,104,132, the figures for the four previous years being:—
1895, £17,024,480 ; 1894, £16,602,539 ; 1893, £16,147,491 ; 1892, £16,299,014.
The total value of the exports of home produce and manufactures was
£3,601,118, against £3,630,807 in 1895, £3,845,749 in 1894, £3,405,209 in 1893,
and £3,258,792 in 1892.
South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies.—The Second Annual
Congress of this Union was successfully held, at Tunbridge Wells, on
Friday and Saturday, 21st and 22nd of May, under the Presidency of the
Rev. F. R. R. Stebbing, F.R.S. (who delivered an admirable address), and
the skilful and energetic secretarial care of Dr. Abbott. Several papers
and discussions, interesting to all members of Natural History Societies,
were read, among which may be noted the following :—" What can be done
to save our Fauna and Flora from unnecessary destruction," by the Rev.
J. J. Scargill, B.A., and A. Rose; "How can the Technical Education
Grant assist Local Scientific Societies," by S. Atwood and J. W. Tutt,
F.E.S.; "Local Museums," by William Cole, F.L.S., E.F.C; and "The
Committees on Field Clubs," by Prof. G. S.Boulger, F.L.S., E.F.C. Our
friends in Kent, Surrey and Sussex are setting a good example—how long
shall it be before we follow suit in East Anglia? The Report of the
Congress may be had from Dr. G. Abbott, 2, Queen's Road, Tunbridge
Wells, Kent, price 1s.—Ed.