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SCIENCE. 



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Clares that he failed to find traces of any land 

 north of the New Siberian Islands. Baron 

 Toll, however, is convinced that Sannikoff 

 Land will be found in the place where it is in- 

 dicated on the maps, and purposes to go thither 

 with dogs and sledges and a portable house, and 

 spend a year in exploration. 



The Massachusetts House of Representatives 

 has rejected, by a large majority, the bill re- 

 ported by the Committee on Education appro- 

 priating $2,500 for the Boston Meeting of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science. 



The Thirty-third Field Meeting of the Appa- 

 lachian Mountain Club will be held in the 

 Adirondacks, beginning Friday, July 1st. A 

 week will be spent at St. Hubert's Inn, after 

 which those who desire to do so will have an 

 opportunity to visit Lake Placid and other at- 

 tractive resorts in this beautiful group of moun- 

 tains. During the Field Meeting two evenings 

 will be devoted to scientific and literary mat- 

 ters, and papers descriptive of the topography, 

 geology, natural history and forestry of the re- 

 gion will be presented by authorities on these 

 subjects. 



The annual meeting and conversazione of the 

 Selborne Society took place on May 30th in the 

 rooms of the Society, Hanover-square, the 

 President, Sir J. Lubbock, M.P., being in the 

 chair. The objects of the Society are to pre- 

 serve from unnecessary destruction such wild 

 birds, animals and plants as are harmless, 

 beautiful and rare ; to discourage the wearing 

 and use for ornament of birds and their 

 plumage, except when the birds are killed for 

 food or reared for their plumage ; to protect 

 places and objects of antiquarian interest or 

 natural beauty from ill-treatment or destruc- 

 tion, and to promote the study of natural 

 history. 



Natural Science finds that, under its new Cu- 

 rator, Mr. Alexander Gray, the Robertson Mu- 

 seum at the Millport Marine Biological Station 

 continues to prove of service to naturalists and 

 of interest to the public. Dr. Gemmill, lec- 

 turer on embryology, and Dr. Rankin, demon- 

 strator in zoology, in Glasgow University, took 

 several of their students to Millport during the 



Easter vacation ; and it is expected that many 

 students from Glasgow University, as well as 

 those attending other science classes in the 

 neighborhood, will avail themselves, during the 

 coming season, of the advantages offered by 

 this institution for gaining a practical knowl- 

 edge of the subject of their studies not other- 

 wise attainable. 



The Boston Transcript states that sevei'al in- 

 teresting changes and additions are being made 

 in the collections in the Mineralogical Museum, 

 and Laboratory at Harvard. The most impor- 

 tant change in progress is the work of arrang- 

 ing some five hundred geological specimens, 

 taken from different parts of the Museum and 

 representing a large number of formations, so- 

 as to illustrate in detail the physical properties 

 of minerals and also their mode of occurrence 

 and associations with one another. The work 

 is in charge of Messrs. Arthur S. Eakle and 

 Charles Palache, instructors in the geological 

 department. The collection will be contained 

 in a series of twelve cases in the gallery near 

 the entrance, and will form one of the most in- 

 teresting features of the Museum. There is- 

 also to be placed on exhibition a large special 

 collection of minerals to illustrate the occur- 

 rence of volcanic bombs. This collection was- 

 made by Dr. L. L. Hubbard, State Geologist of 

 Michigan, in the vicinity of Lake Laach, Ger- 

 many, and was presented by him to the Mu- 

 seum. Still another new feature of the Museum 

 will be a collection of specimens of calcite from 

 Lake Superior. The specimens contain some 

 exceptionally fine crystals and illustrate to 

 good advantage the occurrence of calcite crys- 

 tallizing with copper. 



The 23d meeting of the American Library 

 Association will be held at Lakewood at Chau* 

 tauqua, N. Y, from the 4th to the 9th of July. 

 An interesting program will be presented, 

 including an address by Mr. Herbert Putnam,, 

 of the Boston Public Library, President of the 

 Society. 



The New York Free Circulating Library 

 opened its tenth branch at 215 East 34th street, 

 on Monday last, June 6th. The library occu- 

 pies the three upper floors of a former private 

 residence that has been altered to suit its pur- 



