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the northeast. The Board has no means at its 

 disposal for exterminating the pest, but has noti- 

 fied the owners or managers of some 1,900 es- 

 tates of the law of 1897, which says that "it 

 shall be the duty of the owners and managers 

 of premises infested with this moth to exert 

 themselves persistently to confine and suppress 

 it," and have furnished them with a bulletin 

 describing the pest and giving directions for its 

 destruction. 



The nomenclature of the new New York 

 City parks, relative to which there has been 

 much discussion, was fittingly determined at a 

 recent meeting of the Park Commissioners by 

 the selection of the following : Alexander 

 Hamilton Park, John Jay Park, De Witt 

 Clinton Park, William H. Seward Park and 

 Hamilton Fish Park. It had been suggested, as 

 we noted in a recent issue, that the name of the 

 late W. A. Stiles, a former Park Commissioner, 

 should be associated with one of the new 

 pleasure grounds, but the precedent of naming 

 a park in honor of any Park Commissioner was 

 wisely deemed a bad one. The fostering care 

 of science and art, and the distinguished ser- 

 vices rendered the city and the nation by the 

 eminent men whose names have been chosen, 

 make the decision one which will meet with 

 universal approval. All lovers of nature will 

 be particularly gratified by the graceful recog- 

 nition of De Witt Clinton. 



The Astley-Cooper prize of the value of £300, 

 awarded biennally by Guy's Hospital, will again 

 be given at the beginning of 1901, the subject 

 being the ' Physiology of the Pancreas. ' 



The United States Civil Service Commission 

 announces that, on February 7, 1898, an exam- 

 ination will be held to establish an eligible reg- 

 ister from which a selection may be made to fill 

 a vacancy in the position of keeper of aquarium 

 at the National Zoological Park at a salary of 

 $75 per month. The examination will consist 

 of a light educational test, together with prac- 

 tical questions on the habits, distribution and 

 classification of fishes, including translations of 

 descriptions of fishes from German and Latin 

 into English. 



The Friday evening meetings of the Royal 

 Institution will begin on January 21st at 9 p. m., 



when the Eight Hon. Sir John Lubbock, Bart., 

 M. P., will give a discourse on ' Buds and Stip- 

 ules.' Succeeding discourses will probably be 

 given by Professor C. Lloyd Morgan, Mr. Alan 

 A. Campbell Swinton, Dr. John Hall Gladstone, 

 Professor L. C. Miall, Captain Abney, Professor 

 T. E. Thorpe, Mr. James Mansergh, the Very 

 Kev. the Dean of Canterbury, Professor Dewar 

 and others. To these meetings members and 

 their friends only are admitted. Lord Eay- 

 leigh will deliver lectures after Easter. 



The fifth annual lecture course of the Lin- 

 nsean Society of New York City, in cooperation 

 with the American Museum of Natural History, 

 will be given in the large lecture hall of the 

 Museum, Seventy-seventh street and Eighth 

 avenue, as follows: 



January 6th, ' Cats and the Lands they Inhabit, ' 

 by Daniel Giikaud Elliot, F. E. S. E., Curator of 

 Zoology, Field Columbian Museum. February 3d, 

 'From Vera Cruz to Mexico City,' by Feank M. 

 Chapman, Assistant Curator, Vertebrate Zoology, 

 American Museum of Natural History. March 17th, 

 ' The Mammals of North America, ' by Eenest Seton 

 Thompson; illustrated by views from nature and 

 from original drawings by the lecturer. April 7th, 

 ' Protective and Directive Coloration of Animals,' by 

 C. Haet Meeeiam, M. D., Chief of Biological Sur- 

 vey, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



The Garden and Forest Publishing Company 

 announce that with the last issue, which com- 

 pletes the tenth volume, the publication of Gar- 

 den and Forest will be suspended. They state 

 that ' ' For ten years the experiment has been 

 tried of publishing a weekly journal devoted to 

 horticulture and forestry, absolutely free from 

 all trade influences, and as good as it has been 

 possible for us to make it. This experiment, 

 which has cost a large amount of time and 

 money, has shown conclusively that there are 

 not persons enough in the United States inter- 

 ested in the subjects which have been presented 

 in the columns of Garden and Forest to make a 

 journal of its class and character self-support- 

 ing. It is useless to expend more time and 

 money on a publication which cannot be made 

 financially successful, and must, therefore, 

 sooner or later cease to exist. ' ' 



M. Brtjnetiere has retired from the editor- 

 ship of the Revue des deux Mondes, the great 



