JUNE 14, 1901.] 
Mr. J. Pirrpont MorGan has given to the 
Cooper Union Museum a collection of textile 
fabrics, the value of which is estimated at over 
$50,000. The collection, including the Bodia 
collection of Barcelona, the Rivas collection of 
Madrid and the Baron collection of Paris, very 
completely illustrates the history of weaving 
through the middle ages to the end of the 
seventeenth century. 
ENGLISH journals report that the national 
collection of Lepidoptera in the Natural History 
Museum at South Kensington has recently been 
greatly enriched by the addition of the almost 
unique collection of butterflies from Europe, 
and Central and Hastern Asia, together with 
the collection of European moths, formed by 
the late Mr. John Henry Leech, of Hurdcott- 
house, Salisbury. Arrangements had been 
made during Mr. Leech’s lifetime under which 
the museum became possessed of his eastern 
Asian moths, and now the same public institu- 
tion has acquired the still more important ac- 
cessions adverted to, through the munificence 
of his mother, Mrs. Leech, of Kensington 
Palace gardens. It is understood that the 
museum authorities will publish a catalogue of 
the butterfly collection. Of Rhopalocera there 
are rather more than 18,000 specimens, repre- 
senting some 1,100 species, among which are 
over 400 male and female types of species de- 
scribed by Mr. Leech. This collection of 
Palearctic butterflies is very rich in Chinese 
and Japanese species, and in local forms and 
aberrations of European species. The European 
Heterocera number about 23,000 specimens, in- 
cluding some fine aberrations and extensive 
series of the variable species. The collection 
of eastern Asian moths, from which the mu- 
seum had already made a selection, comprised 
nearly 3,000 species, of which about 800 were 
made known to science by Mr. Leech. 
A MEETING was held in Dublin on May 17 
for the purpose of advocating a pathological in- 
stitute for Dublin. Delegates were present from 
various institutions, and plans were adopted 
for a laboratory intended primarily for research 
work. 
As a return for the courtesies extended to 
members of the American Institute of Electrical 
SCIENCE. 
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Engineers during their visit to London last 
year, an illuminated address was prepared and 
was presented to the British Institution of Elec- 
trical Engineers on May 30. 
THE American Medical Association, which 
met at St. Paul last week under the presidency 
of Dr. C. A. L. Reed, decided to meet next 
year at Saratoga. Dr. John A. Wyeth, of New 
York, was elected president. 
THE third quinquennial Congress of Medical 
Men and Naturalists of the Czech and Slay na- 
tions was held at Prague on May 25 to 29, 
under the presidency of Dr. Jaroslav Hlava, 
professor of morbid anatomy in the Bohemian 
University at Prague. More than nine hundred 
members were in attendance. 
THE Department of State has received a note 
from the minister of the Netherlands, dated 
Washington, May 22, 1901, stating that the 
Fifth International Congress of Criminal An- 
thropology will be held in Amsterdam from 
September 9-14, 1901. The principal ques- 
tions to be discussed are: First, anatomical 
and physiological characters of criminals, de- 
scriptive studies; second, criminal psychology 
and psychopathology, criminals and lunatics, 
theoretical considerations and practical meas- 
ures ; third, criminal anthropology in its legal 
and administrative application, principles to be 
followed, preventive measures, protective meas- 
ures, penalties; fourth, criminal sociology, 
economic causes of crime, criminality and so- 
cialism ; fifth, criminal anthropology and eth- 
nology compared. Special questions, such as 
alcoholism, sexuality, juvenile criminality, sen- 
ile criminality, hypnotism, criminal psychology 
in literature, etc., will also be considered. 
THE Geological Survey of South Dakota was 
treated more liberally by the last Legislature 
than in former years. It is therefore planned 
to prepare and publish soon a bulletin on the 
mineral resources of the State, giving the pro- 
duction for the year 1900, and, later, another 
on the water supplies, treating particularly of 
the Artesian areas. A reconnaisance is pur- 
posed for the coming summer into the region of 
the Moreau and Grand rivers. The persistent 
rumors of the occurrence of coal there will be 
investigated. As itis a region less known and 
