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was fully reported in this journal, two meet- 

 ings of the executive committee have been 

 held. At the first of these, at which Lord 

 Shand accepted the oflice of chairman, it was 

 reported that a number of foreigners of eminence 

 had expressed a wish to be associated with the 

 proposal to commemorate Mr. Huxley's distin- 

 guished services to humanity. It was resolved, 

 in the first instance, to invite subscriptions from 

 the members of the general committee. At the 

 second meeting, held on Wednesday, it was re- 

 ported that the subscription, which at the gen- 

 eral meeting had amounted to £557, had been 

 increased to about £1,400, and it was resolved 

 that a wider appeal for subscriptions should 

 now be made to the friends and admirers of 

 Mr. Huxley amongst the general public. The 

 honorary secretary stated that in America com- 

 mittees were in the course of being formed to 

 promote the realization of an adequate fund. 

 The committee resolved to communicate, by 

 means of a sub-committee of their number, with 

 Mr. Onslow Ford, R. A., who had the advan- 

 tage of being well acquainted with Mr. Huxley, 

 in reference to the statue, which it is proposed 

 should be erected beside those of Darwin and 

 Owen in the Natural History Musevim, South 

 Kensington. The extent to which the com- 

 mittee may be able to carry out the other in- 

 tended objects of founding exhibitions, scholar- 

 ships, and medals for biological research and 

 lectureships, and possibly in assisting the re- 

 publication of Mr. Huxley's scientific works, 

 will of course depend on the subscriptions which 

 may now be received. These may be sent to 

 the treasurer. Sir John Lubbock, or the bankers 

 Messrs. Robarts, Lubbock and Co., 15 Lombard 

 street, E. C. ; or to the secretary, Professor G. 

 B. Howes, Royal College of Science, South 

 Kensington. The amount received to December 

 20 is £1,535. 



CONCILIUM BIBLIOGEAPHICUM. 



We have now received the ofiicial prospectus 

 of the card catalogue of zoological literature, 

 the plans for which have on several occasions 

 been mentioned in this journal. The Bureau 

 is located at Universitats Str. 8, Zurich-Ober- 

 strass, Switzerland, under the direction of Dr. 

 H. H. Field and the control of an international 



committee nominated at the recent Congress 

 of Zoology. The Bureau will print a prompt 

 catalogue of all zoological papers, whether pub- 

 lished separately, or as articles in scientific 

 journals. For the first year a subscription rate 

 has been chosen which would barely cover the 

 cost of printing (not of compilation nor of sort- 

 ing) on an estimate of 100 subscribers to the 

 whole set of cards. If this number cannot be 

 reached, then the Bureau will be obliged, not 

 merely to pay for the work of sorting and send- 

 ing, but must also advance money to pay the 

 deficit on the printing. If, on the other hand, 

 200 subscribers for the whole series can be se- 

 cured, the card catalogue division of the 

 Bureau's work would probably be self sup- 

 porting, and any further increase might be used 

 towards improving the material or towards re- 

 ducing the price. In no case, however, will any 

 profit be realized on the operations of the 

 Bureau. 



The entire set of cards is offered for sale at 

 the rate of $2 per 1,000 cards (not including 

 transportation), and it is estimated that about 

 8,000 cards will be issued during the first j'ear. 

 Special groups of cards, systematic or morpho- 

 logical, may be subscribed for at increased 

 rates. 



The Card Catalogue constitutes a special 

 edition of the Bibliographia Zoologica, itself a 

 continuation of the bibliographical part of the 

 Zoologischer Anzeiger. This latter journal forms 

 the connecting link with the Bibliotheca Zoolog- 

 ica of Engelmann, Carus und Eligelmann, and 

 Taschenberg, constituting an unbroken bibliog- 

 raphy from the earliest times dowia to the 

 . present day. By a most fortunate arrangement 

 with the eminent director of the Zoologischer 

 Anzeiger, Prof. Carus will remain editor-in- 

 chief of the Bibliographia Zoologica. 



The Bureau will begin issuing an Anatomical 

 Catalogue, the Bibliographia Anatomica, early in 

 1896, and arrangements will also be made for 

 physiology, provided these two first experi- 

 ments meet with success. The Botanical Sec- 

 tion of the A. A. A. S., impressed with the im- 

 portance of founding a similar bureau for botany, 

 ajipointed at its last session an influential com- 

 mittee to study the working of the Zoological 

 Bureau and to make arrangements for the estab- 



