August 20, 1900] 



SCIENCE 



235 



llf X 8J inches; in the upper right corner is 

 fixed the word " rhinocenis," between the date 

 " 1515," and the well known bold monogram 

 of the artist; there is a scant foreground, and 

 the detailed inscription was added outside the 

 enclosing lines. The impression which the 

 present writer has before him is printed on 

 thin linen paper bearing the water-mark of the 

 peacock, well known to dealers and collectors, 

 and is trimmed to the lines, according to the 

 pernicious custom of an earlier time. 



Gesner properly used this print, which must 

 have been common in his day, duly acknowl- 

 edged it, and added a brief history of the sub- 

 ject for the interest of the general reader. 

 The reproduction, possibly by Gesner's own 

 hand, is almost photographic in accuracy, ex- 

 cepting the accessories of enclosing lines and 

 foreground, which were studiously omitted 

 from nearly all of his illustrations. It was 

 reduced by about one fourth, and was nat- 

 urally reversed in printing. Although Gesner 

 might have advantageously drawn still 

 further from the great Neurenburg artist for 

 admirable pictures of horses, dogs, stags and 

 hares, he refrained. 



Francis H. Herrick 



THE VyiTED STATES BUREAU OF 

 EDUCATION 



The Bureau of Education at Washington, 

 which has occupied for thirty-seven of the 

 forty-two years of its existence the rented 

 building at the corner of Eighth and G streets, 

 northwest, was removed in July to the second 

 floor of the old Post-office Department build- 

 ing between Seventh and Eighth and E and F 

 streets, with storage and mailing rooms in the 

 basement. Its new quarters are more coimno- 

 dious and much more comfortable than the 

 old. This is the first time in the history of 

 the bureau that it has been quartered in a 

 government building. 



A measure of reorganization in the staff of 

 the bureau was made during the month of 

 July. Mr. Lewis A. Kalbach, who has been 

 connected with the bureau for twenty-two 

 years and has served during the past three 

 years as clerk to the Commissioner, in addition 



to his duties as specialist in land-grant college 

 statistics, has been appointed chief clerk of 

 the bureau. He has been succeeded as special- 

 ist in land-grant college statistics by Professor 

 James E. McClintock, of the University of 

 Maine, whose principal work will have to do 

 with the relations of the federal government 

 with the land-grant colleges of agriculture and 

 mechanic arts. The former chief clerk, Mr. 

 Lovick Pierce, continues his connection with 

 the bureau as chief of the correspondence 

 division. Dr. Harlan Updegi'aff, who has 

 served as chief of the Alaska division during 

 the past two years, has been appointed collec- 

 tor and compiler of statistics, succeeding Mr. 

 W. Dawson Johnston, who has been made li- 

 brarian of Columbia University. Dr. Upde- 

 graff's principal duties will have to do with the 

 relations of the bureau with the chief school 

 officers of the several states and cities of the 

 country. It is expected that he will serve as 

 an adviser in matters affecting school admin- 

 istration. 



Mr. William T. Lopp, who has served as dis- 

 trict superintendent of schools in Alaska, has 

 been appointed superintendent of education of 

 natives of Alaska and will have direct charge, 

 under the supervision of the commissioner of 

 education, of education and the reindeer in- 

 dustry among the Alaskan natives. He will 

 divide his time between Alaska and Washing- 

 ton and will have charge of the Alaska divi- 

 sion of the bureau. 



Some time will be taken in closing up the 

 special work upon which Dr. Updegraff and 

 Mr. Lopp are now engaged, in the Alaska serv- 

 ice, and it is expected that they will not enter 

 their new duties before Novemlier or De- 

 cember. 



Arrangements have been made by the Bureau 

 of Education and the Bureau of the Census 

 for the collection by special census agents of 

 financial statistics of the school systems of the 

 larger cities. The statistical form used by the 

 Census Office will be furnished shortly by the 

 Bureau of Education to a number of these 

 cities that can not be reached this year by the 

 census agents. This form is the outcome of a 

 conference between the two offices concerned. 



