S6 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 
JLABORATE preparations have been made by the New York Acad- 
emy of Sciences for the appropriate celeb ‘ation, on May 23, of the two 
hundreth anniversary of the birth of the celebrated Swedish naturalist, 
Linneeus. ‘The exercises will begin in the morning at the American 
Museum of Natural History with addresses and an exhibition of the 
animals, minerals and rocks first classified by Linnzeus; will continue 
in the afternoon at the Botanical Garden and Zodlogical Park, with 
addresses and suitable exhibits of plants and animals and the dedica- 
tion of the Bridge, and will be concluded in the evening with simul- 
taneous exercises at the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute, Eastern 
Parkway, and at the New York Aquarium in Battery Park. ‘The 
exercises at the Museum will include, at 11 o’clock, an address by Mr. 
Archer M. Huntington, President of the American Geographical Society, 
on “North American Geography at the Time of Linnzeus” and one by 
Dr. Joel A. Allen, Curator of Mammalogy and Ornithology at the 
Museum, on “ Linneeus and American Zoélogy,” while Dr. EK. O. Hovey, 
Secretary of the New York Academy of Sciences, will read letters con- 
cerning the anniversary from other societies. 
A Fine collection of European Myriapods, comprising 238 species 
has recently been acquired by the Department of Invertebrate Zodlogy, 
‘They were collected by Dr. Carl W. Verhoeff of Dresden, Germany, 
and embrace specimens from Germany, Austro-Hungary, Greece, the 
Pyrenees, European ‘Turkey, France, Switzerland, Portugal, Italy, 
and Norway, together with a few from Tunis (Africa). ‘The peculiar 
animal forms comprised in the class Myriapoda are familiar to all under 
such names as centipedes, millepedes and ‘“thousand-legged worms.” 
Like the true worms their bodies are long, 
they are divided into a varying number of ring-like segments. ‘They 
cylindrical or flattened, and 
differ from the worms, however, in possessing one or two pairs of jointed 
legs for each segment, while their jaws, antenne and internal organs 
closely resemble those of insects. Standing thus as an intermediate 
or transitional link between these two groups, myriapods are of peculiar 
interest to biologists. ‘The centipedes, which differ from the millepedes 
in having but one pair of legs for each segment instead of two, are 
carnivorous and kill the insects upon which they feed by their poison- 
ous bite. The poison also serves as a protection against enemies. 
The millepedes on the other hand are vegetarian in their habits, and 
