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tains. Steps were retraced to San Miguelito 

 and work was carried on in this vicinity and 

 on the island of Boquete. A trip was made 

 to Managua, the capital, situated on the 

 lake of the same name, stops being made 

 along the way at Morito on the eastern coast 

 of Lake Nicaragua, at Moyagalpa on Onie- 

 tepe Island, at Kivas on the western coast, 

 and at Granada. The collectors brought 

 back more than fifteen hundred fish taken 

 from many sections of the country, twenty- 

 three hundred herpetological specimens com- 

 prising more than a hundred species, and 

 two hundred and fifty photographs of the 

 species and their habitats. 



The spring schedule of popular lectures 

 at the American Museum of Natural History 

 is as follows: on Thursday evenings the 

 members' course of four lectures— March 8, 

 "In the Jungles of British Guiana," by 

 C, William Beebe; March 15, "In the High 

 Sierras with John Muir," by Herbert W. 

 Gleason; March 22, "Our Debt to Ancient 

 American Civilizations," by Herbert J. 

 Spinden; and March 29, "With Camera and 

 Gun through Western Colombia," by Leo E. 

 Miller; on Saturday mornings a series of 

 stories for the children of members— March 

 3, "Among the Penguins of South Georgia," 

 by Eobert Cushman Murphy; March 10, "In 

 the Land of Hiawatha," by Ann E. Thomas; 

 March 17, "Wild Flowers of Spring," by G. 

 Clyde Fisher; and March 24, "At Home in 

 the Zoo," by E. E. Sanborn. There are also 

 offered four courses of six lectures each, 

 open to school children : on Mondays— March 

 12, "Our Waterways and their Protection," 

 by George H. Sherwood; March 19, "A 

 Journey in Western Europe," by Charles H. 

 Eogers; March 26, "Through the African 

 Jungle," by James P. Chapin; April 9, 

 "Mexico and Central America," by Charles 

 H, Eogers; April 16, "Our Newest Posses- 

 sions—The Danish West Indies," by G. 

 Clyde Fisher; and April 23, "Travels in 

 South America," by Howarth S. Boyle; on 

 Wednesdays— March 14, "The Explorers of 

 Eastern North America," by Ann E. 

 Thomas; March 21, "Early History of New 

 York," by Eoy W. Miner; March 28, "Lake 

 Champlain, Lake George and the Hudson," 

 and April 11, "Colonial and Eevolutionary 

 New England," by Ann E. Thomas; April 

 18, "The Growth of New York City," by 

 Eoy W. Miner; and April 25, "The Song of 

 Hiawatha," by Ann E. Thomas; on Fridays 



— March 16, "The Conservation of Our For- 

 ests," by G. Clyde Fisher; March 23, "The 

 History of Our Country's Transportation," 

 by Ann E. Thomas; March 30, "Agriculture 

 in the United States," by G. Clyde Fisher; 

 April 13, "The City's Fire Department," by 

 Fred H. Smyth; April 20, "Governing New 

 York City," by Ann E. Thomas; April 27, 

 "The Story of a Piece of Coal," by G. Clyde 

 Fisher; on Tuesdays and Fridays — May 1, 

 "The Story of the Winds," by George H. 

 Sherwood; May 4, "Wild Birds of New 

 York City," by S. H. Chubb; May 8, "Wild 

 Animals near Home," by G. Clyde Fisher; 

 May 11, "The Three F's— Fingers, Food, and 

 Flies," by T. G. Hull; May 15, "How Life 

 Begins," by G. Clyde Fisher; and May 18, 

 "The Wonderful Work of Water," by George 

 H. Sherwood. 



From a preliminary survey of the lizards 

 in the reptile collections brought back by the 

 American Museum Congo Expedition, it ap- 

 pears that the 1435 specimens represent 

 about forty species, several of which are 

 new to science. The collection affords large 

 series of many forms, especially of the 

 skinks (Scincidae), which will be of value in 

 defining species hitherto known from rela- 

 tively few specimens. As would be expected 

 from the tropical forest habitat, the snakes, 

 with 805 specimens, greatly outnumber the 

 lizards in species, about seventy (several of 

 these also new) being represented. In the 

 course of the study of the Congo species a 

 reexamination of Dr. Hallowell's West Afri- 

 can types at the Academy of Sciences of 

 Philadelphia is being made; also the Eich- 

 ard Douglas collection from Matabeleland, 

 belonging to the American Museum, will be 

 reported on in the same connection. 



At the time of his death, July 6, 1914, 

 Dr. Seth E. Meek of the Field Museum of 

 Natural History, Chicago, was engaged in 

 the preparation of an exhaustive catalogue 

 of the fishes of the fresh waters of Panama. 

 This work has recently been brought to a 

 successful conclusion by S. F. Hildebrand 

 of the United States Bureau of Fisheries 

 and published by the Field Museum. Such 

 an addition to the knowledge of the fauna 

 of Panama, the present connection between 

 North and South America, is of importance 

 to the science of zoogeography, in which Dr. 

 Meek was interested. The present work 

 contains plates of many interesting neotrop- 

 ical catfish, Characins, Gymnotids, and of a 

 new genus of goby. 



