1898] 



NEWS 139 



The Sixth Anniversary of the Harvard Natural History Society was cele- 

 brated on December 17, when Professor Shaler gave an account of the History 

 of the Society. ' 



Dr Karl Futterer, professor of geology in the Technical High School in 

 Karlsruhe, has started on a journey to Central Asia for the purpose of 

 geological research. 



The Zoological Museum at Rome has received from Messrs Lepri and Patrizi 

 a collection of many hundred birds, including several rare specimens, from the 

 surrounding country. 



By the will of E. Czaban, a Warsaw merchant, the Warsaw Academy of 

 Sciences has received a sum of over £7000 ; and the Universities of Cracow and 

 Lemberg £4000 each. 



The late Col. Theodore Lyman, well known as the author of the ' Challenger ' 

 Eeport on the Ophiurids, gave his scientific library to the Museum of Compara- 

 tive Zoology at Harvard. 



The U.S. Coast Geodetic Survey are on the point of issuing a new map con- 

 taining the Yukon River and most of its tributaries, including the Klondike 

 region, on a scale of twenty miles to the inch. 



Prof. Angelo Heilprin of Philadelphia has organised an expedition for the 

 scientific exisloration of Alaska. He will have a stern-wheel steamer of steel, in 

 ten sections, and of exceptionally light draught. 



The American Society of Naturalists and affiliated societies, which met at 

 Ithaca in December last, will probably meet next winter in New York, at the 

 same time as the Geological Society of America. 



By the will of the late Sir Thos. Elder, of Adelaide, S. Australia, the 

 Zoological and Geographical Societies of that city received £2000 each ; and 

 the Medical School of the University, £20,000. 



Ox condition that Dr Lundstrcim be the first to receive the appointment, 

 Franz Kempe of Stockholm has given £9000 for the establishment of an Associate 

 Professorship of Physiological Botany at Upsala University. 



A Zoological Society of Western Australia has been founded, with a 

 zoological garden in South Perth. The director of the latter is E. A. Le Souef, 

 son of the well-known director of the Melbourne Zoological Garden. 



A Fund has been established in Victoria to erect a permanent memorial to the 

 late Baron F. von Miiller. The Secretaries are Prof. Baldwin Spencer and Mr 

 W.. Wiesbaden. It is hoped to provide funds for a statue and a scholarship. 



The Triennial Cuvier prize of 1500 francs "for the most remarkable work on 

 the Animal Kingdom or on Geologj^," was, at the session of the Academic des 

 Sciences on December 13, 1897, awarded to Prof. O. C. Marsh of Yale University. 



The Trustees of the British Museum have decided that the evening opening 

 of the Bloomsbury Institution is a failure, and in future the Museum will be 

 open to the public from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on week day evenings all the year 

 round. 



The Biological Survey of Alaliama, established a year or so ago, has added 

 to its herbarium during 1897 over 20,000 specimens. It is intended to sell sets 

 of exsiccatae at about thirty shillings a hundred, and to offer some specimens as 

 exchanges. 



