Two papers with promising titles will be read at the
meeting of the Royal Geographical Society on Monday. The first describes " a plan for a further search after the remains of the Franklin Expedition:4 Lieutenant Bedford Pim, R.N. " ; the second is a letter from Dr. Vogel of the Central African Mission, on the ivory trade of Central Africa, /to. The latter is communicated by Lord Clarendon.
The prizes offered by the Reformatory Union for the best essays on the practical management of Reformatories and Refuges with respect to food, labour, and rest, called up five-and-twenty competitors. The suc- cessful essayists included three ladies. Miss Carpenter, of the Red Lodge Girls' School, Bristol, won the first prize, 151., for the best essay on Reformatories for Boys and Girls ; Miss Jane Sliman, Matron of the Female's House of Refuge, Parliamentary Row, Glasgow, won the first prize, 15/., for her essay on Reformatories for Girls alone; Mrs. Edmond, Matron of the St. Giles and St. George's Refuge for te Homeless and Destitute Girls, Broad Street, Bloomsbury, won the second prize, Si., on the same subject. The first prize, 15/., for the best essay on Reforma- tories for Boys, was adjudged to Mr. Julius Benn, of the Northampton‘ shire Reformatory School, Tiffield, Toweester ; the second prise, on the same subject, fell to the lot of Mr. James Edmond Harries, of the Hurst Refuge, Walton-on-Thames. The adjudicators state, that "almost all the essays have much practical merit, and display not only a large amount of personal knowledge and valuable experience on the subject of Reforma- tory discipline, but also very considerable literary talent in their ar4 rangement and style."
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