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These include the various kinds of angel-fishes, 

 parrot-fishes, snappers, trunk-fishes, morays, 

 barracudas, sea-horses, etc., and are most beau- 

 tifully exhibited in the tanks of the aquarium. 

 But muc^ remains to be done in ascertaining 

 v^hat is available in the local fauna, and the 

 director of the aquarium has already taken 

 steps to carry out a preliminary biological sur- 

 vey of the region about Miami. 



The aquarium is situated on the bay side of 

 Miami Beach at the east end of the new cause- 

 way connecting the beach with the city of 

 Miami. A line of electric cars crosses the 

 causeway and makes the run in either direction 

 in about twenty minutes. Hence a person 

 working at the laboratory may reside either in 

 Miami, the fourth largest city in Florida, or at 

 Miami Beach, where sleeping apartments and 

 bungalows may be had and where there are 

 ample restaurant accommodations. Those who 

 want particular information about the labora- 

 tory should apply to the director, Mr. L. L. 

 Mowbray, Miami Aquarium, Miami Beach, 

 Florida. 



G. H. Parker 



Harvard University 



the toronto meeting of the american 

 society of zoologists 



The executive committee of the American 

 Society of Zoologists has decided to present 

 at the meeting of the society at Toronto, 

 Canada, December 28-30, 1921, a symposium 

 program on the general subject of " Ortho- 

 genesis," broadly interpreted, the object be- 

 ing to bring into the discussion as many of 

 the newer aspects from the varied fields of 

 the natural and physical sciences as may be 

 feasible. The speakers the committee have 

 invited to address the society and the sub- 

 jects of each speaker are as follows; several 

 are still in the tentative stage, as indicated: 



Professor L. J. Henderson, Harvard University, 

 ' ' Ortliogenesis from the standpoint of the bio- 

 chemist ; ' ' speaker to suggest an opener for the 

 discussion. The speaker who has been invited 

 is at present abroad. 



Professor C. B. Lipman, University of Cali- 

 fornia, ' ' Orthogenesis in bacteria ; ' ' speaker to 

 suggest an opener for the discussion. 



Professor M. F. Guyer, University of Wiscon- 

 sin, ' ' Orthogenesis in serological reactions. ' ' 



Professor Wm. Bateson, of England, discus- 

 sion by Dr. O. C. Riddle, Cold Spring Harbor, 

 Long Island, New York. Title not yet received. 



Professor W. M. Wheeler, Harvard University, 

 ' ' Orthogenesis in ants ; ' ' discussion by Professor 

 H. C. Crampton, Barnard College, N«w York City. 



Professor H. F. Osborn, Columbia University, 

 New York City, ' ' Orthogenesis as observed from 

 paleontologieal evidence beginning in the year 

 1889;" discussion by Dr. J. C. Merriam, Car- 

 negie Institution. 



Charles A. Kofoid, 

 President 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The autumn meeting of the National Acad- 

 emy of Sciences will be held at the University 

 of Chicago on liTovember 14 and 15. 



The thirty-ninth stated meeting of the 

 American Ornithologists' Union will convene 

 in Philadelphia, at the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, from November 8 to 10. 



The Berzelius medal has been conferred on 

 Professor E. Abderhalden, director of the 

 physiological institute of the University of 

 Halle, for his research on the defensive fer- 

 ments and in other lines of biologic chemistry. 



Mr. a. Crommelin, assistant astronomer of 

 the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, has been 

 awarded the Ponthecoulant Prize of the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences in recognition of his gen- 

 eral astronomical work. 



President Harding has appointed Dr. John 

 Glover South, of Frankfort, former president 

 of the Kentucky State Medical Association, as 

 minister to Panama. 



James A. Crawford left his position with the 

 Buffalo Botanic Gardens on October 1 to accept 

 an appointment as assistant curator at the New 

 York Botanical Garden. 



George M. Eommel, now chief of the divi- 

 sion of animal husbandry of the Bureau of 

 Animal Industry, United States Department 

 of Agriculture, became editor-in-chief of the 

 publications of the American International 

 Publishers of New York, beginning on Novem- 

 ber 1. These include The Field Illustrated; 



