210 NATURAL SCIENCE [March 



Prof. F. Noll of Briinii, the literary executor of the late Julius Sachs, 

 Professor of Botany at Wiirzburg, is now working over the unpublished manu- 

 scripts of the latter. An admirable account of Sachs by Prof. Noll, with a 

 portrait, is given in The Botanist Gazette for January. 



At its meeting on 12tli January, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 

 elected John M. Coulter, of Chicago, and Douglas H. Campbell, of Palo Alto, as 

 Associate Fellows in the Section of Botany, and Elias Metschnikoff, of Paris, as 

 Foreign Honorary Member in the Section of Zoology and Physiology. 



On the 29th January the Horniman Museum at Forest Hill ceased to be open 

 to the public for a time. Mr Horniman intends to pull down the present build- 

 ing and erect a more suitable one as a memorial to Her Majesty's Jubilee. It is 

 hoped that the foundation stone of the new building may be laid in June. 



The Museum of Rouen is being reorganised, and we learn from La Fenille 

 den Jeiones Naturalistes that it is spreading into the building j^reviously occupied 

 by the School of Design. It will now be possiljle to display in a worthy manner 

 the fine collection illustrative of Normandy geology formed by Mr Bucaille. 



During 1897, says the same journal, all the specimens of the Noury ornitho- 

 logical collection in the museum at Ell^euf have been revised by Mv L. Coulon, 

 who has published a catalogue of them through the Societe d'Etudes des Sciences 

 Naturelles of that town. In the same museum the Lepidoptera, especially those 

 of Normandy, have been completed by Mr Dupont, while Mr Lancelevee has 

 classified the Formicidae. Mr Raoul Fortin has been classifying the Quaternary 

 rocks and fossils, while the Gastropoda have been revised and labelled by Mr 

 Lhomme. 



Prof. Guido Cora has resigned the professorship of geography at the 

 Royal University of Turin, held by him for the last sixteen years, that he may 

 devote himself to scientific research in geography and the allied sciences. His 

 address, and that of his periodical Cosmos, will in future be 2 Via Goito, Rome. 



The Director of the U.S. Geological Survey has been instructed by Congress 

 to prepare a map of Alaska, showing all known topographical and geological 

 features, including gold-bearing rocks. The text, which will state the best 

 known routes to the gold-fields, will also be issued. 40,000 copies are to be 

 printed. 



It is interesting to learn, as we do from Science, that there is a scientific posi- 

 tion in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, for which only women are eligible. 

 It is the post of assistant microscopist to the Department. The microscopical 

 inspection service has of late been greatly extended, and vacancies are to be filled 

 in sixteen different cities. 



Prof. K. Mitsukuri, the eminent zoologist of Tokyo, who has recently 

 been in Washington as Japanese Plenipotentiary to the congress on the seal 

 question, passed through England in February. He intends visiting Paris, 

 Naples, and various German centres of learning, and hopes to be able to return 

 for the Zoological Congress at Cambridge. 



We learn that the Fossil Plants at the British Museum, which have for years 

 been divided between the Geological and the Botanical Departments, have now 

 been merged into one collection. This is only one of many enlightened move- 

 ments which have taken place recently in the Museum, and the new arrangement 

 will be of especial benefit to botanical students. 



Experience has not accustomed us to associate the Roman Church with 

 Science in any other position than that of antagonism. We are the more pleased 

 to learn that, on the initiative of the Marquis de Maroy, of Wassy, a natural 



