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copies will be forwarded as soon as published, and a certain circulation will be 

 guaranteed. No money remuneration is offered, but duplicate specimens may be 

 retained by the authors. Unique specimens will be handed over to the South 

 African Museum in Cape Town. 



A Biological Survey of Alabama has been organised and put into operation. 

 The Survey will be carried on under the 'auspices of the Alabama Polytechnic 

 Institute by the specialists engaged at that institution in the various lines of 

 biological investigation. Its object is to study in field and laboratory all plants and 

 animals occurring in the State, and the various conditions affecting them. The 

 work will be done systematically and thoroughly, aud all results published. In a 

 region so interesting and little worked as this portion of the Southern United States, 

 careful and extended research will be sure to yield results of the greatest value, and 

 we hope that Alabama biologists will receive the support they deserve. Large 

 quantities of material in all groups of plants, and of animals (especially insects) will 

 be collected and properly prepared. In connection with the Survey there has been 

 founded an Exchange Bureau, from which will be distributed all duplicate material. 

 Any desiring to correspond relative to specimens, literature, or the work of the 

 Survey, should address : Alabama Biological Survey, Auburn, Alabama. 



Even the hardened scientific man, in all his pride of ignorance of the Greek 

 language, history, and culture, may feel some thrill of interest in hearing that 

 Professor Dorpfeld, in his excavations to the N.W. of the Areopagus, has discovered 

 one of the potsherds by which Themistocles, the great and mean, was ostracised in 

 471 B.C. On it are impressed the words " Themistocles Phrearrios," the latter having 

 reference to the deme in which the statesman was born. 



In connection with the Essex County School of Horticulture, a botanic garden 

 and demonstration ground is to be established on three acres of land acquired at 

 Rainsford End, Chelmsford. 



The Scottish Geographical Magazine states that an experimental station has been 

 formed in Zanzibar for the study of the agricultural resources of East Africa, and 

 the suitability of various crops for cultivation in that region. 



G. Zenker, formerly Director of the Jaunde Station in the Cameroons, has set 

 up in Bipinde a research station for the study of the fauna and flora of this district. 



The Government of Dutch India has appropriated $6,000 for the erection of a 

 research laboratory at the Buitenzorg Garden. 



A SCIENTIFIC expedition to the Far East has been organised by the German 

 Government, and will probably start on January 27 from Bremen on board the 

 North German Lloyd s.s. " Sachsen." 



A meteorological station, in connection with the German Antarctic expedition, 

 is shortly to be established under the direction of Dr. Rudolph Mewes, in Victoria 

 Land. 



Dr. O. Nordenskiuld has sailed in the Chilian vessel " Magellanes " for the 

 South Shetland Islands, where both coal and gold are said to occur. 



Nature announces that J. Graham Kerr and J. S. Budgett, both of 

 Cambridge, who started last August for Paraguay, have been successful in their 

 quest for specimens of Lepidosiren paradoxa, and will shortly return with abundant 

 material to work out. 



Mr. C. G. Pringle has returned from his annual trip into the more unknown 

 regions of Mexico with about 20,000 zoological and botanical specimens. 



The Vienna Academy has sent Drs. H. Miiller, Ghon, Albrecht, and Poch to 

 investigate the bubonic plague in India. Their expenses will be paid out of the 

 Treitl Fund. 



Renter states that Dr. Koch has discovered that cattle can within a fortnight 

 be rendered immune to rinderpest by a mixture of serum and virulent rinderpest 

 blood. 



