THE CONCHOLOGISTS’ EXCHANGE. 15 
Catalogue of Pictou Academy, Pictou; N- 
S., from Prof. A. H. MacKay, Pictou, N. Se 
Catalogues of Public Museum, Milwaukee, 
from Mr. Carl Doerflinger, Sec’y. 
The National Educator, Allentown, Pa., 
for September and October. 
The West American Scientist for September. 
1. Melanopsis Fossil e viventi D’Italia; 
2. Sopra alcune Scalarie terziarie, from Prof. 
Dante Pantanelli, Modena, Italy. 
1. List of the Fossils of the Upper Silurian 
Formation of Gotland; 2. Om _ Gotlands 
Nutida Mollusker, from Professor Gustaf 
Lindstrom, Stockholm, Sweden. 
NECROLOGY. 
Mr. George R. Busk, English surgeon and 
naturalist is dead; aged 78. 
The death is reported of Dr. R. J. Mann, 
for three years President of the English Me- 
teorological Society. 
Mr. Gerrard Kinahan the promising young 
naturalist and explorer was killed May 23, 
1886, at Anyappa, Africa, by a poisoned arrow 
in the hands of a native. 
Dr. Wakley, the well-known editor of the 
* Lancet” died August 30th, 1886. 
The distinguished chemist and author, 
Professor M. Maclay has arrived at Odessa 
from New, Guinea. 
“Sandy” Trotter one of Edinburgh’s 
famous teachers is dead. 
The Faculty of Brown University are 
seriously thinking of educating women. 
Harvard University will celebrate its 250th 
anniversary on the 6th, 7th and 8th of Novem- 
ber. 
M. Chevreul, the French centenarian and 
scientist, published his first work in 1806 and 
his latest in 1806. 
Miss Ada J. Todd of the Bridgeport High 
School received the degree of Ph. D. from 
the Boston University in June last. 
Dr. Yates of Santa Barbara, Cal., who has 
been suffering for some time with a disabled 
hand is now convalescent. 
Professor Faxon, late instructor in Natural 
Science at Harvard has resigned, and Dr. 
Ayers will take his class in Zoology and 
Biology. 
Mr. Wm. Landborough the late Australian 
explorer while in search of Burke and Wills 
traversed the continent from the Gulf of Car- 
pentaria to Melbourne. 
Dr. B. A. Gould, Director of the National 
Observatory of Cordova in the Argentine 
Republic, was recently elected a corresponding 
member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences. 
Maurice Thompson will deliver a course of 
lectures on scientific subjects at Vanderbilt 
University, Nashville, this winter. These 
lectures will probably be repeated at other 
colleges in the South and West, 
Professor John Dickinson, a brother of Miss 
Anna Dickinson the lecturer, and of Miss 
Susan Dickinson the authoress, has accepted 
the chair of Geology and Mineralogy and 
Curator of the Museum in the University of 
Southern California at Los Angeles. 
Professor John Holzinger of Winona, Minn. 
reports an awakening interest in the study of 
Conchology among the pupils of his class of 
48. We are pleased to note this and hope 
that many more instructors will kindly report 
progress to “The Conchologists’ Exchange.”’ 
