﻿APR. 
  19, 
  1922 
  SCIENTIFIC 
  NOTES 
  AND 
  NEWS 
  217 
  

  

  The 
  Academy 
  of 
  Science 
  and 
  Arts 
  of 
  Trieste, 
  Italy 
  proposes 
  to 
  issue 
  an 
  

   encyclopedia 
  of 
  science 
  and 
  arts, 
  under 
  the 
  editorship 
  of 
  Prof. 
  Giorgio 
  

   Giuseppe 
  Ravasini 
  da 
  Buie, 
  of 
  Istria, 
  An 
  advance 
  notice 
  states 
  that 
  the 
  

   publication, 
  which 
  will 
  appear 
  in 
  16-page 
  fascicles, 
  will 
  contain 
  twice 
  as 
  many 
  

   articles 
  as 
  the 
  Encyclopaedia 
  Britannica. 
  

  

  The 
  Petrologists' 
  Club 
  met 
  on 
  March 
  14, 
  with 
  the 
  following 
  program: 
  

   L. 
  La 
  Forge, 
  Magmatic 
  differentiation 
  as 
  illustrated 
  by 
  the 
  Dedhani 
  granitic 
  

   group 
  in 
  eastern 
  Massachusetts; 
  M. 
  N. 
  Bramlette: 
  Review 
  of 
  Gordon's 
  

   Desilicated 
  granitic 
  pegmatites; 
  E. 
  S. 
  Larsen, 
  informal 
  communication 
  on 
  

   Crystallization 
  and 
  resorption 
  in 
  magmas. 
  

  

  Two 
  small 
  lots 
  of 
  bird 
  skins 
  presented 
  to 
  the 
  National 
  Museum 
  by 
  B. 
  H. 
  

   Swales, 
  Honorary 
  Assistant 
  Curator, 
  Division 
  of 
  Birds, 
  contain 
  8 
  genera 
  and 
  

   many 
  species 
  previously 
  unrepresented 
  in 
  the 
  collection. 
  

  

  The 
  Section 
  of 
  Vertebrate 
  Paleontology 
  of 
  the 
  National 
  Museum 
  has 
  re- 
  

   cently 
  acquired 
  portions 
  of 
  the 
  skin, 
  hair, 
  muscular 
  tissue, 
  dried 
  fat 
  and 
  blood 
  

   of 
  the 
  Siberian 
  Mammoth, 
  which, 
  with 
  other 
  specimens, 
  now 
  form 
  an 
  exhibit 
  

   illustrative 
  of 
  this 
  animal. 
  The 
  specimens 
  are 
  from 
  a 
  carcass 
  that 
  was 
  found 
  

   frozen 
  in 
  a 
  cliff 
  along 
  the 
  Beresovka 
  River 
  in 
  northeastern 
  Siberia 
  in 
  1901, 
  

   and 
  was 
  exhumed 
  for 
  the 
  Imperial 
  Academy 
  of 
  Science 
  in 
  Petrograd 
  by 
  a 
  

   Russian 
  naturalist, 
  now 
  a 
  refugee 
  in 
  Germany. 
  The 
  patch 
  of 
  skin 
  measuring 
  

   one 
  by 
  two 
  feet 
  is 
  from 
  the 
  knee 
  of 
  the 
  right 
  hind 
  leg. 
  It 
  is 
  thickly 
  covered 
  

   with 
  a 
  short 
  wooly 
  hair 
  and 
  with 
  bunches 
  of 
  long 
  reddish 
  hair 
  that 
  varies 
  in 
  

   length 
  from 
  4 
  to 
  6 
  inches. 
  A 
  bunch 
  of 
  hair 
  taken 
  from 
  the 
  right 
  shoulder 
  has 
  

   a 
  length 
  of 
  more 
  than 
  30 
  inches. 
  

  

  The 
  Division 
  of 
  Mollusks 
  of 
  the 
  National 
  Museum 
  has 
  recently 
  received 
  

   from 
  Dr. 
  E. 
  M. 
  BluESTone, 
  Assistant 
  Director 
  of 
  the 
  Mount 
  Sinai 
  Hospital, 
  

   New 
  York 
  City, 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  187 
  slides 
  showing 
  the 
  different 
  species 
  of 
  malarial 
  

   parasites. 
  In 
  some 
  instances 
  specimens 
  were 
  taken 
  at 
  stated 
  intervals 
  

   between 
  chills, 
  to 
  show 
  the 
  different 
  stages 
  in 
  the 
  development 
  of 
  the 
  Tro- 
  

   phozoite 
  in 
  the 
  blood 
  of 
  man. 
  

  

  The 
  grass 
  herbarium 
  has 
  received 
  a 
  package 
  of 
  Brazilian 
  grasses 
  from 
  the 
  

   Berlin 
  Herbarium 
  containing 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  duplicate 
  types 
  collected 
  by 
  Sello 
  

   and 
  described 
  by 
  Nees 
  von 
  Esenbeck 
  in 
  his 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  grasses 
  of 
  Brazil 
  

   published 
  in 
  1829. 
  A 
  fine 
  set 
  of 
  Argentine 
  grasses 
  has 
  also 
  been 
  received 
  

   from 
  Dr. 
  Lorenzo 
  Parodi, 
  of 
  Buenos 
  Aires. 
  

  

  The 
  Section 
  of 
  Photography 
  of 
  the 
  National 
  Museum 
  has 
  recently 
  pur- 
  

   chased 
  a 
  set 
  of 
  75 
  representative 
  photographs 
  of 
  snow 
  crystals 
  made 
  byW. 
  A. 
  

   Bently, 
  of 
  Jericho, 
  Vermont, 
  who 
  has 
  been 
  studying 
  snow 
  crystals 
  for 
  more 
  

   than 
  thirty 
  years. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  John 
  Casper 
  Branner, 
  ex-president 
  of 
  Leland 
  Stanford, 
  Jr., 
  Uni- 
  

   versity, 
  California, 
  and 
  a 
  non-resident 
  member 
  of 
  the 
  Academy, 
  died 
  on 
  

   March 
  1, 
  1922. 
  

  

  E. 
  F. 
  BuRCHARD 
  has 
  taken 
  leave 
  for 
  one 
  year 
  from 
  the 
  Geological 
  Survey 
  

   and 
  has 
  gone 
  to 
  Argentina 
  for 
  private 
  interests. 
  

  

  Mrs. 
  Agnes 
  Chase 
  of 
  the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  Plant 
  Industry 
  sailed 
  March 
  11 
  for 
  

   Europe 
  to 
  study 
  the 
  types 
  of 
  grasses 
  in 
  the 
  larger 
  herbaria. 
  She 
  goes 
  first 
  to 
  

   Vienna 
  to 
  select 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  duplicates 
  from 
  the 
  herbarium 
  of 
  the 
  well-known 
  

   agrostologist, 
  Professor 
  Hackel, 
  and 
  later 
  will 
  visit 
  Florence, 
  Berlin, 
  Geneva, 
  

   Paris, 
  Brussels, 
  Leyden, 
  and 
  London. 
  Mrs. 
  Chase 
  expects 
  to 
  return 
  about 
  

   the 
  first 
  of 
  July. 
  

  

  Prof. 
  Arnold 
  van 
  Jennep, 
  eminent 
  French 
  anthropologist, 
  was 
  a 
  recent 
  

   visitor 
  in 
  the 
  Division 
  of 
  American 
  Archeology'. 
  Professor 
  van 
  Jennep 
  

  

  