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it in the same year from Fredericli Schutz, of 

 Dresden, and has now been sold by order of the 

 executors of the late Mr. James Hack Tuke, of 

 Hitchin, and was sold for 160 guineas. It may 

 be interesting to point out that six or seven 

 years ago there were only 68 specimens of the 

 egg recorded. The highest price of £300 was 

 paid for a duplicate for the collection of Baron 

 d'Hamonville, of Meurthe, France, two years 

 ago. Shortly after this event two very good 

 specimens were detected among a collection of 

 eggs purchased at a sale in the country for 30s., 

 and were subsequently sold by Mr. Stevens 

 last year for 275 guineas and 185 guineas res- 

 pectively. A third specimen, Sir. W. Milner's, 

 came into the auction room during last season 

 and fetched 180 guineas. A few years ago a 

 number of exceedingly clever forgeries of the 

 egg were manufactured. Two other interesting 

 eggs were sold immediately after the above 

 mentioned great auk's egg — a very fine speci- 

 men, slightly cracked, but otherwise in flrst- 

 rate condition, of an egg of sepyornis maximus 

 realized 40 guineas ; and the only example of 

 an egg of sepyornis grandidieri ever offered for 

 sale in this country sold for 35 guineas. 



The New York State Fish, Game and Forest 

 Commission recommends that an amendment 

 be made to the State Constitution giving the 

 commission power to lease at a nominal price 

 small tracts of the Adirondack preserve to citi- 

 zens of the State for the erection of cottages or 

 camps. The Commission states that New York 

 owns about 1,000,000 acres of land in the 

 counties constituting the forest preserve (the 

 greatest park in the world), all of which is prac- 

 tically within the Adirondack park. These 

 campers or cottagers would make the very best 

 guardians of the forest, as they would at all times 

 be oresters, game protectors and fire wardens. 



The death is announced of Prof. Anatoly 

 Petrovich Bogdanoff in Moscow. Nature states 

 that he was born in southern Russia in 1834, 

 and after studying at the Moscow University, 

 and writing, in 1858, his first dissertation on 

 the colors of birds, he became professor of the 

 same University in the year 1863. In connec- 

 tion with this work he wrote an excellent text 

 book of zoology, and a still better work, unique 

 in its kind, namely, a Chrestomathy of Zoology, 



in three volumes, in which the reader obtains a 

 thorough scientific acquaintance with the dif- 

 ferent classes of the animal kingdom by means 

 of admirably chosen abstracts from the best 

 authors, considerable attention being given to 

 purely biological questions, and especially to 

 the lowest animals, as well as to their manners 

 of life. In the sixties, Bogdanofl^ founded, at 

 Moscow, the well-known ' Society of Lovers of 

 Natural Sciences, Anthropology and Ethnog- 

 raphy,' whose numerous quarto volumes of 

 Memoirs rank among the best scientific publica- 

 tions in Russia, and whose expeditions included 

 the well-known Turkestan expedition of the 

 late Fedchenko and Madame Olga Fedchenko. 

 The chief anthropological work of A. P. Bog- 

 danoff' was on the inhabitants of the grave- 

 mounds of the Moscow region. The full list of 

 his nearly forty anthropological, and nearly 

 thirty zoological works is given in ' Materials 

 for the History of Zoology, pure and applied, 

 in Russia, chiefly for the last Thirty Years,' of 

 which he was the editor, and of which three 

 volumes have already been published. His 

 works for popularizing biology, especially on 

 Darwin's ideas, and for extending the interest 

 in anthropology, are also numerous. 



Macmillan & Co. have made arrangements 

 for the issue in New York and London of a 

 Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology under 

 the editorial supervision of Prof Baldwin, 

 of Princeton University. The work will con- 

 tain concise definitions, such historical matter as 

 may be necessary to justify the definition given 

 and to show that the usage suggested is the out- 

 come of the progress of philosophy, and full 

 bibliographies. The following contributors 

 are already announced : General Philosophy 

 and Metaphysics, Prof Andrew Seth, Edin- 

 burgh ; Prof John Dewey, Chicago. History 

 of Philosophy, Prof Josiah Royce, Harvard. 

 Logic, Prof. R. Adamson, Glasgow. Ethics, 

 Prof W. R. Sorley, Aberdeen. Psychology, 

 Prof J. McK. Cattell, Columbia; G. F. Stout, 

 W. E. Johnson, Cambridge ; Prof E. B. Titch- 

 ener, Cornell; The Editor, Princeton. Mental 

 Pathology and Anthropology, Prof. Joseph Jas- 

 trow, Wisconsin. Biology, Prof C. Lloyd Mor- 

 gan, Bristol. Bibliography, Dr. Benjamin Rand, 

 Harvard. 



