4o6 NATURAL SCIENCE. Decembfk. 1896. 



Mr. C. H. Sternberg has made a fine collection of fossil plants in the Dakota 

 Group at Kansas. 



Professor D. G Elliott has made good faunal collections in Somaliland. 



Large collections of plants and animals from the north-eastern shores of Lake 

 Nyasa, have been made by Mr. A. White, who has just returned to British Central 

 Africa from a successful expedition into the Nyika plateau. 



A CORRESPONDENT of the Daily Chronicle of November loth points out that 

 Nansen's deep layer of warmer and salter water below the surface of the Polar 

 Sea, originating probably in the Gulf Stream, with a temperature of 1° above 

 freezing-point, confirms the observations made by Leigh Smith in 1871, 1872, and 

 1873, that warm undercurrents from the Gulf Stream ran along the north-western 

 coast of Franz Josef Land. 



Dr. Nansen is having a new yacht built by Mr. Colin Archer, for the purpose 

 of taking soundings around the coast-line of Norway and Spitzbergen. 



A regulation that will help to preserve big game in German East Africa has 

 been drawn up. This provides for shooting licences, prohibits the shooting of all 

 young or female game, and levies a tax of 100 rupees on the first elephant shot, and 

 250 for each succeeding one. These restrictions do not apply to animals shot for 

 food, or to apes, wild boars, reptiles, or beasts of prey. Special game-preserves in 

 the interests of science will be established, and hippopotamus reserves are 

 suggested. 



Dr. Koch, the bacteriologist, has been ordered to the Cape by the German 

 Government to examine into and report upon the rinderpest. 



Mr. a. Alder, of George Street, Brisbane, Queensland, is prepared to send 

 full-size colored plaster casts of Ceratodus Jorsteri, Krefft, packed and shipped, for 

 £2, I OS. 



It was announced in Natural Science (vol. iv., p. 164, March, 1894) that the 

 people of Shrewsbury intended to erect some memorial of the illustrious native of 

 that town, Charles Darwin. The project, however, was delayed for want of funds, 

 largely in consequence of the fall of St. Mary's spire {torn, cit., p. 256). We now 

 learn that the deficiency has been made good by the Shropshire Horticultural 

 Society, and that a statue, to cost from /i, 000 to /i, 200, is to be erected in the 

 town. Further, such money as may be subscribed by friends of science and well- 

 wishers to the memorial will be applied to the foundation of a memorial scholarship. 



