2o6 NATURAL SCIENCE. March, 



general zoological bibliography, and their collection in the present 

 work is therefore of special value. The lists have been compiled, 

 with assistance, by Mr. S. Henshaw. We are glad to see that it is 

 intended to issue supplements, bringing the work up to date. 



Various changes in editors have come in with this year. La Nature 

 will be edited by Mr. H. Parvil in place of Mr. G. Tissandier. 

 Professors J. S. Kingsley and C. O. Whitman leave the editorial 

 board of the Avieyican Naturalist, the former being succeeded by Mr. 

 F. C. Kenyon, of Philadelphia. The Botanical Gazette has blossomed 

 out in a large number of associate editors representing various 

 American and European scientific centres. Professor H. Marshall 

 Ward is the English representative. Professor J. Seth joins the 

 editors of the Philosophical Review (Cornell University). Dr. W. 

 Sklarek is joined, as editor of the Natnrwissenschaftliche Rundschau, 

 by Drs. J. Bernstein, professor of physiology at Halle ; W. Ebstein, 

 professor of pathology at Gottingen ; A. v. Koenen, professor of 

 palaeontology at Gottingen; V. Meyer, professor of chemistry at 

 Heidelberg ; and B. Schwalbe, professor of anatomy at Berhn. 



Scraps from Serials. 



W^HiLE we in England are talking about Pliocene Man, and while his 

 Burmese contemporary is to be strenuously defended in our pages by 

 Dr. Fritz Noetling, our American cousins are still disputing over the 

 remains of Man supposed to be in glacial drift. The last piece of 

 important evidence has been sent us by Professor E. W. Claypole, 

 who, in the American Geologist {ox November, 1896, describes a grooved 

 greenstone axe of common aboriginal American type, said to have 

 been found by Mr. Elmer E. Masterman in the tough blue clay below 

 glacial gravel, near New London, Huron Co., Ohio. The specimen 

 when found was considerably decomposed, perhaps by the action of 

 sulphurous water. Other specimens have also been found in or about 

 the same beds by Mr. Masterman. In the American Naturalist for 

 January, however, Mr. H. C. Mercer points out that the intended 

 conclusion can hardly be accepted until some professed archaeologists 

 shall have witnessed the actual finding of a similar implement in situ. 



In Knowledge for February, Dr. W. F. Hume recalls the fact that 

 specimens of diatoms collected by Nansen from the ice-floes between 

 Iceland and Greenland, and found to belong to species hitherto known 

 only from Bering Strait, as well as particles of minerals collected from 

 the same place, and thought by Tornebohm to come from North 

 Siberia, were among the evidences which caused Nansen to imagine 

 the drift of the ice across the Arctic Ocean. The importance of little 

 things has rarely received more striking proof. This number also 

 contains an article by Harry F. Witherby, entitled " 'Twixt Land 

 and Sea," with three half-tone process illustrations, described as 

 " engravings from original oil-paintings by ' A Son of the Marshes.' " 

 New a picture almost identical with one of these has been hung on 

 our own study-walls for fifteen years, under the supposition that it 

 was a copy of a painting by Wolf. The others also seem familiar. 

 Who is the dupe ? 



Dr. Bashford Dean has put together a very interesting paper on 

 the Public Aquaria of Europe from notes made during the travels of 

 several years. His paper, which appears in Appleton's Popular Science 

 Monthly (November, 1896), deals with Naples, Amsterdam, Plymouth, 

 Paris, Berlin, while Brighton in particular is illustrated and generally 

 described. He remarks that Brighton Aquarium is the nu st typical, 

 if not the largest, of the newer aquaria of Europe. From Dr. Dean's 



