268 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



an institution in the United States, and thereby give our nat- 

 uralists the same facilities for scientific investigation as are 

 to be enjoyed in London. 



THE GODEFFKOY MUSEUM, AT HAMBURG. 



A work entitled Journal des Museum Godeffroy^ a quarto, 

 of which the first part has just appeared, is intended to illus- 

 trate the discoveries of the Brothers Godeff roy, of Hamburg. 

 These gentlemen have undertaken the collection of objects 

 of natural history on a large scale for commercial purposes, 

 and have already secured an immense amountof material, es- 

 pecially from the islands of the Pacific. A series of these is 

 preserved in the Godefi'roy Museum, and duplicates are dis- 

 posed of on reasonable terms to public museums. The col- 

 lection is under the direction of Dr. J. D. E. Schmeltz, Jun., 

 who is said to be an excellent naturalist, and capable of 

 managing the interest of what j)romises to be a very exten- 

 sive establishment. 



NUTRITION OF VIBRIOS. 



During an investigation into the natural history of vibrios, 

 Grimm has been enabled to discover no organ for ingestion 

 of alimentary substances, and he thinks they must be supplied 

 with nourishment through endosmose. He has observed num- 

 bers of them about certain organic substances, part of which 

 they absorb, including any coloring matter, which appears in 

 the interior of the animal. The gelatinous envelope in which 

 they are often found inclosed is thought to be not a foreign 

 substance, but a product from the vibrios themselves. Grimm 

 thinks that vibrios have the power of voluntary movement, 

 and that they possess several modes of progression. 18^, 

 February 21, 1873, 551. 



gay's HISTORY OF CHILI. 



At the meeting of the Academy of Sciences of Paris for 

 April 21, Mr. Claude Gay presented the thirtieth and con- 

 cluding volume of his great work upon the natural, physical, 

 and political history of Chili. As long ago as 1828 Mr. Gay 

 left Paris for South America, and arrived in Chili at the end 

 of 1829, by way of Brazil and Buenos Ayres, with the inten- 

 tion of devoting himself to the study of the botany of that 



