1898] NEWS 209 



The Field-Columbian Museum of Chicago has purchased the complete 

 herbarium of the late M. S. Bebl), which is specially rich in specimens of 

 Salix. 



The Societt^ d'Acclimatation of Paris intends to issue, in addition to its 

 Bulletin, a monthly journal which will be largely devoted to discussion and 

 corresjiondence. 



The U.S. Government has sent Mr B. E. Fernow, chief of the Division of 

 Forestry, to Hawaii to make preliminary explorations and a report on desirable 

 forestry legislation. 



Mr Geo. K. Cherrie, assistant curator of ornithology in the Field 

 Columbian Museum, has resigned his position in order to explore the region of 

 the Upper Orinoco. 



Prof. Wm. Libbey, of Princeton University, intends to celebrate the annexa- 

 tion of Hawaii by taking four of his students there on a scientific expedition 

 during the coming summer. 



Mr Clement "Wragge, the founder of Ben Nevis Observatory, and now 

 Government meteorologist of Queensland, proposes to establish an observatory on 

 the summit of Mt. Kosciusko. 



Prof. 0, C. Marsh has presented his unique palaeontological and osteo- 

 logical collections to Yale University, in wliich he has been honorary professor 

 of palaeontology for thirty years. 



Prof. H. A. Miers has been granted the sum of £50 a year for five years to 

 assist in the purchase of specimens and apparatus for the mineralogical depart- 

 ment, Oxford University Museum. 



On December 18, 1897, a hall was opened at Bologna for the reception of the 

 herbaria, preparations, and sections of the botanist Aldrovandi. It has been 

 erected at the cost of the city and province. 



The Cambridge Archaeological and Ethnological Museum has received from 

 Mr W. W. Skeat, District Magistrate of Larnt, Perak, a large collection of Malay 

 native objects of great interest and importance. 



The Romanes lecture this year will be delivered in the Sheldonian Theatre, 

 Oxford, on June 1, by Sir Archibald Geikie, who has announced as his subject, 

 " Types of Scenery and their Influence on Literature." 



In accordance with the wish of the late Prof. John Tyndall, Mrs Tyndall has 

 forwarded to the Royal Institution a cheque for £1000 to be disposed of as the 

 board of managers may see fit for the promotion of science. 



The Rev. George Henslow, who has been appointed professor of botany to 

 the Royal Horticultural Society, has imdertaken to give demonstrations on the 

 plants exhibited at a number of the meetings during the present year. 



Mr George Sharman, palaeontologist to the Geological Survey, retired at 

 the end of last yeai", having served since 1855. We iinderstand that he will be 

 succeeded by Mr F. L. Kitchin, a graduate of Cambridge and Munich. 



Governor Black of New York proposes the purchase by the State of a forest 

 tract for the purpose of scientific cultivation, the administration to be in the 

 hands of the Regents of the University or the Trustees of Cornell University. 



Mr Jonathan Hutchinson, whose museum at Haslemere, Surrey, is well 

 known, intends to establish an educational museum of a similar nature in his 

 native town of Selby, Yorkshire, using for it the overplus material from 

 Haslemere. 



