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WE understand that the Home Secretary has intimated to Dr. Lyon Playfair, member for the Edinburgh University, that he will submit the name of Mr. Geikie, F.R.S., to the Queen as first professor in the new Chair of Geology in that university. This has been done at the express recommendation of Sir Roderick Murchison, who, as already announced, has given the sum of 6,000/. to found the chair. In spite of her great mineral wealth, Scotland has no school of applied science like the State-supported establishments in London and Dublin. It is matter for congratulation, therefore, that the first appointment to the first Chair of Geology established in Scotland should have been given to one whose position as director of the Geological Survey in that part of the United Kingdom will enable him to act effectively in the teaching of the practical applications of geology.