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district Mr. Priestley regards as of especial interest, 
but the paper was confined to an account of the 
adventures and life of the party during the following 
winter. Owing to the failure of the steamer to return 
they had to live through the winter on an island 
which they have named inexpressible Island; they 
excavated chambers in the snow, and their food con- 
sisted of a scanty supply of seals and penguins. The 
experiences of this party were unique in the Ant- 
arctic, and the fact that, in spite of their sparse supply 
of food, they were able to live through the winter 
without the loss of a single man reflects the highest 
credit on their ingenuity and judgment. As was 
expected years ago, this coast is subject to strong 
westerly winds, which added greatly to the discom- 
fort of the explorers. In the spring of 1913 the party 
sledged down the coast, found one of Taylor’s food 
depéts, and crossed McMurdo Sound to the head- 
quarters. Mr. Priestley regards the risks run by this 
party during both seasons as unduly great. He re- 
marks of one experience, ‘this is the sort of thing 
that does not happen twice without disaster.” 
News was received at the latter part of last week 
announcing the death, on Nevember 4, at Leyden, at 
the age of sixty-nine, of Dr. Fredericus Anna Jentink, 
director of the Rijks Museum van Natuurlijke His- 
torie, commonly known as the Leyden Museum. Dr. 
Jentink’s connection with the museum of which he 
eventually became the head was a long one, dating, 
we believe, at least from the ’seventies. Throughout 
his scientific life the deceased naturalist devoted such 
time as could be spared from his other duties to 
systematic work on mammals, one of his earlier 
important efforts in this direction being the catalogue 
of mammalian osteology in the Leyden Museum, pub- 
lished in 1889, which was followed by a catalogue 
of the entire collection of mammals, issued three 
years later. African mammals early attracted much 
of his attention; and his name is perpetuated in con- 
nection with one of the two largest species of duiker- 
boks, or crested antelopes (Cephalophus jentinki). 
The Dutch possessions in the Malay Archipelago and 
Papua were, however, the means of affording to 
Jentink exceptional and unrivalled material for ex- 
tending our knowledge of the mammalian fauna of 
those regions, this being especially the case in regard 
to the Papuan islands, from which a large number 
of new generic and specific types were described by 
him. As a climax to this work, particular value 
attaches to the summary of the whole mammalian 
fauna of Papua given by Jentink in his “Nova 
Guinea,” if for no other reason than as showing the 
enormous advances which have been made in our 
knowledge of this subject since the appearance of 
Dr. Wallace’s ‘‘ Geographical Distribution.” But his 
administrative and other official duties, in addition to 
the large amount of work he accomplished on mam- 
mals, by no means sufficed to exhaust the energies of 
Dr. Jentink, for after the issue of the first volumes, 
which commenced in 1879, he undertook the editorship 
of ‘Notes from, the Leyden Museum,” a task which he 
continued, we believe, to the end. The amount of 
valuable information with regard to the zoology of 
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Archipelago contained in the long series 
of volumes bearing that title,is known to every ; 
worker. ca 
Tue October number of Science Progress contains 
an editorial article in which the necessity for a 
“ serious stocktaking in the business affairs of science 
is emphasised, and united effort is advocated to “Te 
sist that proper attention be paid to science, that 
disabilities be removed, and that enough means be 
provided.” In a striking phrase it is pointed out 
that ‘‘science has now become an industry. It has 
indeed become the premier industry of all,” and the 
great necessity is to see that this industry is properly — 
organised. ‘Men of science are apt to think that — 
their duties extend to no more than investigation,” — 
but they must also attend to the means by which 
great investigation is to-day rendered possible; “the 
scientific education of the individual and the national 
encouragement of scientific work." The political im- a 
portance for scientific research is emphasised: “it 
gives hegemony to the nations which possess it and 
leaves nations, like individuals, which do not possess — 
it in a backwater of failure and poverty.” ; 
In the September issue of The Journal of Economic — 
Biology, Prof. F. V. Theobald completes his revision — 
of the British species of Macrosiphum, the genus of 
Aphidz usually known as Siphonophora, and includ- 
ing some familiar “‘ greenfly’ pests of rose, pea, and — 
other cultivated plants. The distinctive structural 
characters of each species are clearly figured, and the © 
paper cannot but be useful to students of this impor-— 
tant and interesting group. 
Tue recently issued vol. ix. of the Fortschritte der 
naturwissenschaftlichen Forschung contains an in- 
teresting summary by Dr. C. Wesenberg-Lund of our 
knowledge of the dwellings, in the form of burrows 
or built-up “‘houses,”’ constructed by fresh-water in-— 
sects. Noteworthy are his own recent observations — 
of the tunnelling habits of larvz of Libelluline and — 
other European dragonflies, paralleled by the re- 
searches of B. J. Tillyard on the Australian Petalura 
gigantea. There are also illustrated notes on the | 
form and arrangement of tubes made by larval Chiro- 
nomus, Orthocladius, Tanytarsus, and other midges. — 
As might be expected, the greater part of the review 
is devoted to the architecture of the caddis-worms — 
(Trichoptera) among which the detailed account, wit 
drawings, of the nets constructed by Hydropsychid 
larvee for catching their minute aquatic prey will be 
found especially interesting. 4 
Mr. H. F. Wiruersy, editor of British Birds, in- 
forms us that the readers of that magazine have now ~ 
placed more than 32,000 rings on wild birds of many — 
kinds. This work is leading to results of great 
interest and importance in connection with the study _ 
of birds, and a remarkable case of a swallow ringed — 
in Ayrshire being recovered in Orange River Colony is 
described in the November number. Mr. Witherby _ 
has received a letter from Mr. A. C. Theron, dated 
from ‘‘Riet Vallei, District Lindley, O.F.S.,” stating — 
that a swallow bearing a ring with his name and — 
address was captured at Riet Vallei on March 16, 
