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The subscriptions for the American Univer- 

 sity Table have been received from Brown 

 University and from the Marine Biological 

 Laboratory through Professor H. C. Bumpus ; 

 also from the American Society of Naturalists 

 through the Treasurer, Professor Smith, amount- 

 ing altogether to $250. They have been for- 

 warded to Dr. Anton Dohrn. 



According to the London Times Mrs. Louisa 

 C. Tyndall has written the following letter to 

 Sir James Crichton-Browne, the Treasurer of 

 the Eoyal Institution of Great Britain : 



.January, 1898. 

 Dear Sir James : As an expression of his attach- 

 ment to the Institntion, with ■^^•hioh he was so long 

 connected, and of his sympathy with its objects, my 

 dear husband desired me (at such time as should be 

 most convenient to myself) to present in his name to 

 the Royal Institution £1,000, to be disposed of as 

 the board of managers may see fit for the promo- 

 tion of science. 



I have now the pleasure of remitting to yon this 

 smii. 



Yours faithfully, 



Louisa C. Tyndall. 



Sir James Crichton-Browne, iu acknowledg- 

 ing the communication, says : 



Dear JIes. Tyndall : I have to acknowledge 

 your letter enclosing a crossed cheque of the value 

 of £l,0(iO. This generous donation to the funds of 

 the Royal Institution, given by your late husband's 

 expressed wish, will be notilaed to the managers and 

 to the members generally at their next meeting, when 

 a formal acknowledgment of their grateful apprecia- ' 

 tion of it will be communicated to you. Meanwhile, 

 I trust you will allow me to express my own sense of 

 the munificence of the gift, and of the simple and 

 touching terms in which it has been conveyed. The 

 managers would, I am sure, desire to be guided by 

 any wish of yours as to the application of the gift; 

 but, in the absence of any explicit directions, they 

 will, I have no doubt, employ it in the promotion of 

 that original scientific research in which your hus- 

 band's vivid and penetrating intellect delighted- to 

 exercise itself. Revered as your late husband's mem- 

 ory is, and ever must be, in the Rojal Institution, 

 this posthumous mark of his solicitude for its wel- 

 fare will, if possible, deepen the affectionate esteem 

 in which he is held. There is not, I regret to say, 

 in the Royal Institution any worthy presentment of 

 the late Professor Tyndall. You have, I believe, an 



admirable bust of him by Woolner, and I should be 

 glad to know if yon would feel disposed to afford 

 facilities for having a replication of that made for the 

 Eoyal Institution. 



We regret to announce the deaths of Arthur 

 Kammermann, astronomer, at Geneva on the 

 loth of December, at the age of 36 years, and 

 of Dr. Oscar Stumpe, astronomer, at Berlin, 

 aged 35 years. 



The thirtieth annual meeting of the Daven- 

 port Academy of Natural Sciences was held 

 January 5, 1898. At this meeting the follow- 

 ing honorary members were elected : Profes- 

 sor Henry S. Pritchell, Supt. U. S. Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey, Washington, D. C. ; Professor 

 Robert Etheridge, South Kensington Museum, 

 England; Dr. B. E. Fernow, Chief of the 

 Division of Forestry, Washington, D. C; Dr. 

 John S. Billings, Director of the Consolidated 

 Libraries of New York. 



Professor Lucien M. Underwood, of Co- 

 lumbia University, lectured before the Phila- 

 delphia Academy of Natural Sciences on Janu- 

 ary 8th. The subject of the lecture was ' Our 

 Native Fungi and How to Study Them.' A 

 paper on ' The Law of Regression in Plants ' 

 was read by Professor J. C. Arthur before a 

 recent meeting of the Minnesota Academy of 

 Science at Minneapolis. 



Mr. B. E. Fernow, Chief of the Division of 

 Forestry, has been called to Hawaii to make a 

 reconnoissance and to report concerning de- 

 sirable forestry legislation. 



By the will of former Chief Justice John 

 Scott, his estate, amountingto about $2,000,000, 

 is to be held in trust for the benefit of his heirs 

 until their death, when it is to go to the city of 

 Bloomington for the foundation of a hospital. 



Dr. Herbert Haviland Field writes from 

 Zurich that the Zoological Bibliography has not 

 yet received adequate support in the way of sub- 

 scriptions in this country.and is being conducted 

 at a considerable personal loss. Save by Cor- 

 nell University, there are no subscriptions either 

 to the Physiological or the Anatomical Cards in 

 the States of New York, Connecticut and New 

 Jersey. The Sandwich Islands are better off, 

 since Honolulu has three full subscriptions, be- 

 sides several parts. This lack of support is 



