138 NATURAL SCIENCE [August 



It is proposed to erect a monument at Moscow to the zoologist and anthro- 

 pologist, Anatole Bogdanow, who died in April 1896. 



A giant salamander of Japan, that had lived in the Jardin des Plantes for 

 thirty-seven years, died on June 15, having a length of 1\30 metre and a weight 

 of 24 kilograms. Two survivors mourn its loss. 



Science states that a zoological club of nineteen members has been organised 

 at Springfield, Mass., the president being W. W. Colburn, and the secretary Miss 

 M. A. Young. 



With reference to the note in our last number on the biological station 

 at Plon, we now learn that the Prussian Government will assist it after October 

 1898. 



An expedition, under the leadership of Mr C. M. Harris of Augusta, Me., and 

 at the cost of the Hon. Walter Rothschild, is studying the fauna and flora of the 

 Galapagos Islands. 



An expedition to Okhotsk and Kamtschatka, under the leadership of K. 

 Bogdanowitsch, has found gold at thirteen different places in the river-systems 

 of the Jana, Kyran, Nemuj, Mute, and Lantar. 



A botanical society, named after Baron F. von Muller, has been founded 

 at Perth, W. Australia. Its president is Sir John Forrest, the indefatigable 

 Premier, and its secretary, Mr Skews. 



Sir Martin Conway and Mr E. J. Garwood have returned to Spitzbergen to 

 continue the exploration of the interior of the main island. Afterwards they 

 will go to Horn Sound and finish the exploration of the southern peninsula. 



Science states that it is proposed to enlarge the Missouri Botanical Garden, 

 by the gradual addition of 80 acres, of which 21 will be drained and graded 

 during the present season. 



Dr J. E. Humphrey, botanist, and Prof. W. K. Brooks, zoologist, are con- 

 ducting a course of marine biology in Jamaica for students of Johns Hopkins 

 University. The laboratory has formerly been at Port Henderson, on the south 

 side of the island, but this year it is at Port Antonio, on the north. 



The U.S. Senate has agreed to admit free of dutj r printed books over twenty 

 years old, books in foreign languages and those devoted to scientific research, 

 and books and scientific instruments imported for public and educational 

 institutions. 



Dr J. Walter Fewkes, of the Bureau of American Ethnology, is making a 

 third expedition to the Pueblo Region, where, says Science, he will survey and 

 excavate the ruins of Kintiel, near Navajo Springs, Arizona. He is accompanied 

 by Dr W. Hough of the U.S. National Museum. 



Messrs E. M'Illhenny, W. E. Snyder, and N. G. Baxton have gone to Point 

 Barrow to collect the fauna and flora of N.E. Alaska. Science hears that the 

 collections will go to the National Museum, U.S., and the University (if 

 Pennsylvania. 



A biological station, under the direction of Prof. C. W. Dodge, is to be 

 established by the University of Rochester, N.Y., on Hemlock Lake. We have 

 not yet heard that any fresh-water biological station is to be established in 

 England. 



The Scottish Geographical Magazine states that on May 8 an expedition under 

 Lieut. Drizhenko left St Petersburg for Lake Baikal, which will be sounded and 

 surveyed, while natural history collections will be made. The work will be 

 continuedfor five years. 



