138 NATURAL SCIENCE [August 
Ir is proposed to erect a monument at Moscow to the zoologist and anthro- 
pologist, Anatole Bogdanow, who died in April 1896. 
A atanr salamander of Japan, that had lived in the Jardin des Plantes for 
thirty-seven years, died on June 15, having a length of 1°30 metre and a weight 
of 24 kilograms. Two survivors mourn its loss. 
ScrENCE states that a zoological club of nineteen members has been organised 
at Springfield, Mass., the president being W. W. Colburn, and the secretary Miss 
M. A. Young. 
Wits reference to the note in our last number on the biological station 
at Plon, we now learn that the Prussian Government will assist it after October 
1898. 
AN expedition, under the leadership of Mr C. M. Harris of Augusta, Me., and 
at the cost of the Hon. Walter Rothschild, is studying the fauna and flora of the 
Galapagos Islands. 
Aw expedition to Okhotsk and Kamtschatka, under the leadership of K. 
Bogdanowitsch, has found gold at thirteen different places in the river-systems 
of the Jana, Kyran, Nemuj, Mute, and Lantar. 
A BOTANICAL SOCIETY, named after Baron F. von Miiller, has been founded 
at Perth, W. Australia. Its president is Sir John Forrest, the indefatigable 
Premier, and its secretary, Mr Skews. 
Str Martin Conway and Mr E. J. Garwood have returned to Spitzbergen to 
continue the exploration of the interior of the main island. Afterwards they 
will go to Horn Sound and finish the exploration of the southern peninsula. 
Science states that it is proposed to enlarge the Missouri Botanical Garden, 
by the gradual addition of 80 acres, of which 21 will be drained and graded 
during the present season. 
Dr J. E. Humpwrey, botanist, and Prof. W. K. Brooks, zoologist, are~ con- 
ducting a course of marine biology in Jamaica for students of Johns Hopkins 
University. The laboratory has formerly been at Port Henderson, on the south 
side of the island, but this year it is at Port Antonio, on the north. 
Tue U.S. Senate has agreed to admit free of duty printed books over twenty 
years old, books in foreign languages and those devoted to scientific research, 
and books and scientific instruments imported for public and educational 
institutions. 
Dr J. WALTER FEWKEs, of the Bureau of American Ethnology, is making a 
third expedition to the Pueblo Region, where, says Scéence, he will survey and 
excavate the ruins of Kintiel, near Navajo Springs, Arizona. He is accompanied 
by Dr W. Hough of the U.S. National Museum. 
Messrs E. M‘ILtHENNy, W. E. Snyder, and N. G. Baxton have gone to Point 
Barrow to collect the fauna and flora of N.E. Alaska. Science hears that the 
collections will go to the National Museum, U.S., and the University of 
Pennsylvania. 
A BIOLOGICAL station, under the direction of Prof. C. W. Dodge, is to be 
established by the University of Rochester, N.Y., on Hemlock Lake. We have 
not yet heard that any fresh-water biological station is to be established in 
England. 
THE Scottish Geographical Magazine states that on May 8 an expedition under 
Lieut. Drizhenko left St Petersburg for Lake Baikal, which will be sounded and 
surveyed, while natural history collections will be made. The work will be 
continuedfor five years. 
