June 26, 1896.] 



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Setli Low and F. F. Thompson had qualified as 

 fellows by the payment of $1,000 each. The 

 Director-in-Chief, Dr. Britton, was authorized to 

 secure the assistance of engineers, landscape 

 architects and gardeners in preparing the plans 

 for the development of the Bronx Park site. 

 Several gifts were announced, including the 

 herbarium of the late Harry Edwards, from 

 Mrs. Esther Herrman. 



Garden and Forest states that a preliminary 

 meeting of citizens of New York interested in 

 tree-planting in the residence portions of the 

 city was held May 22d, and it was proposed to 

 regularly organize the association and elect offi- 

 cers on Thursday, June 25th, at 3:30 p. m., in 

 the rooms of the Wool Club. Mayor Strong 

 has consented to the use of his name for Presi- 

 dent, and many well-know citizens have signi- 

 fied their intention to become members. The 

 annual dues of the society will notesceed$5.00, 

 and the receipts will be used to publish pam- 

 phlets and in disseminating information to the 

 public on the best methods of planting shade 

 trees on streets, the best sorts for this purpose, 

 €tc. Application for membership may be made 

 to Cornelius B. Mitchell, 64 and 66 White street. 

 New York. We also learn from the same journal 

 that seven hundred and seventy-five members 

 lave already enrolled themselves in the Audu- 

 bon Society, established a few weeks ago in Bos- 

 ton. The object of the Society is to preserve our 

 native birds by discouraging the use of their 

 feathers in personal decoration. Among the 

 Vice-Presidents of the Society are the senior 

 Senator of Massachusetts, the President of the 

 Massachusetts Historical Society, the President 

 of the Massachusetts Society for Promoting 

 Agriculture, and many other well-known citi- 

 zens and a number of women distinguished for 

 their artistic and social attainments. Any one 

 can become a member of the Society by agree- 

 ing not to purchase or wear the feathers of wild 

 birds and paying .SI. 00. The Secretary, to 

 whom all communications should be addressed, 

 is Miss Harriet E. Richards, Boston Society of 

 Natural History, Boston. There are no annual 

 dues. 



A NEW monthly journal, devoted especially 

 to the study of children, edited by Prof. Earl 



Barnes, will hereafter be published from Stan- 

 ford University. 



An X-ray studio has been opened by Mr. M. 

 F. Martin, at 110 East 26th street. New York. 



,In a paper first presented before the Michigan 

 Academy of Science, and now printed in The 

 Inlander, Mr. Harlan I. Smith urges the im- 

 portance of making a systematic archteological 

 survey of the State of Michigan, with the Uni- 

 versity as headquarters. It would be a great 

 advantage to have recorded on a map the posi- 

 tion of pre-historic remains, in order that per- 

 mission might be obtained to make scientific 

 excavations when opportunity offered, and in 

 order that preference might be given to those 

 remains least likely to remain intact. 



The degree of D. C. L. will be conferred by 

 Oxford University on Sir Archibald Geikie, 

 K. C. B., F. R. S., Director-General of the Geo- 

 logical Survey of the United Kingdom. 



Miss Helen Kellae, who, deaf and blind, 

 has displayed unusual ability, will be placed, 

 next autumn, in the Gilman training school, 

 with a view to preparation for EadcliflTe College. 

 The education and mental attainments of Helen 

 Kellar are even more interesting than in the 

 case of Laura Bridgemau. Those who are in- 

 terested will find an account bj' her able teacher, 

 Miss Sullivan, in a publication from the Volta 

 Bureau, 1892, and in an article by Prof. Jas- 

 trow in The Psychological Review for 1894. 



In a recent number of Science we called at- 

 tention to the international membership of the 

 German Chemical Society. A striking contrast 

 is found in the recently published list of mem- 

 bers of the Chemical Society (London). Out of 

 2,067 members, over eighty-five per cent, are 

 residents of the United Kingdom, and more 

 than half the remainder of British colonies. Of 

 the 140 foreign members 92 are American, 16 

 German, 7 Japanese, and the remaining 25 from 

 eighteen different countries. Considering the 

 Journal of the Chemical Society and its invalu- 

 able abstracts, it is rather surprising that the 

 Society should have so few members outside of 

 the British Empire. 



The first part of a very important work by 

 Drs. D. S. Jordan and B. W. Evermann, en- 



