i«94. NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, ETC. 471 



flourishing account of the finances. It was agreed that a new (seventh) series of the 

 "Ibis" should be commenced in 1895, with the thirty-seventh volume, and that 

 Dr. Sclater and Mr. Howard Saunders should be appointed joint editors. 



The scientific women of America have formed themselves into a National 

 Science Club, of which Mrs. Ada D. Davidson, who was in evidence at the World's 

 Fair (Natural Science, vol.iii.,p. 341), is president. At the annual meeting recently 

 held in the hall of the National Museum, Washington, she gave an address and read 

 a paper on Trilobites. Further lectures will be given in the same place, under the 

 auspices of the Science Club. 



Letters have recently been received from Mr. Scott Elliott, who writes from 

 the west of the Nyanza, and is probably by this time in Ruwenzori. He had crossed 

 the Kagira River, so that he apparently intends to keep well to the south of Bunyoro 

 and the country raided by Kaba Rega. The fighting with this potentate is really all 

 in Mr. Scott Elliott's favour, as it will keep Kaba Rega too much employed to 

 be able to raid to the south. The re-establishment of a station in Soru will also aid, 

 and appears to be a confession of the great mistake committed by Sir Gerald Portal 

 in reversing Captain Lugard's policy. Further news regarding the fate of Prince 

 Eugenio Ruspoli, the son of the Syndic of Rome, has come to hand, and confirms 

 the story of his having been killed by an elephant. The accident happened in the 

 valley of the Omo, one of the two rivers that flow into the north end of Lake 

 Rudolph, so that Prince Ruspoli had got further into one of the most interesting 

 countries in Africa than any previous explorer. If adequate observations have been 

 taken and maps prepared. Prince Ruspoli's life will not have been spent in vain. 

 Another expedition is just starting for this district, under command of Dr. Donaldson 

 Smith, of Philadelphia, accompanied by Mr. F. Gillat and a well-trained zoological 

 collector. The expedition will start from Bulbar, on the Somali coast, cross the 

 Haud to Milmil, and thence strike through the Galla country to the north end of 

 Lakes Rudolph and Stephanie. The expedition will be so powerfully equipped that 

 it need have little to fear from opposition by the natives. It ought to yield rich 

 results to science. It is understood that Dr. J. W. Gregory would have accompanied 

 the expedition had his health permitted. Mr. Coryndon, of the black "White 

 Rhinoceros " fame, is now well on his way to his collecting camp somewhere between 

 the north end of Lake Tanganyika and the eastern margin of the great forests of the 

 Upper Congo. 



A STEREOSCOPIC photomicrograph of the diatoms Heliopelta and Coscinodiscus 

 forms a frontispiece to the fourteenth volume oi the American Munthly Microscopical 

 Journal. These pictures, which are taken by Dr. W. C. Borden, of Newport, R.I., 

 are intended to show the superiority of stereoscopic as opposed to ordinary photo- 

 micrographs for the representation of certain microscopic objects. In the same 

 number of the journal (vol. xiv., no. 12), Mr. K. M. Cunningham calls attention to 

 a remarkable collection of photomicrographs, formed by Dr. Henderson, of Mobile, 

 between the years i860 and 1870. Most of these were taken on wet, or collodion, 

 plates, with Dr. Herapath's J-inch lens, " Ross," and, after 30 years, the silver 

 prints are, in some cases, perfectly preserved. It is to be remembered, as Mr. 

 Cunningham points out, that these photomicrographs must have been taken by 

 sunlight, and not with the approved methods furnished by the electric light or 

 lamp. 



We regret to have to record the deaths of Dr. Joseph von Szabo, of Budapest, 

 which occurred on the loth April last ; of the veteran geologist, August von 

 Klipstein, who died at Giessen on i6th April, aged 93 years ; and of Dr. J. 

 Schmalhausen, the Professor of Botany at Kieff. 



