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geological record. Mr. Walcott, who accompanied 

 Major Powell, remained on the ground to search for 

 fossils, and has not yet completed his examination. 

 If he discovers them, his report will be eagerly re- 

 ceived alilie by geologists and biologists. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



— Professor Felipe Poey of Havana, under date of 

 the 24th of January, 1883, announces that the Span- 

 ish government has purchased his Ichthyologia cubana 

 for $4,000. It will be exhibited in the exposition in 

 Amsterdam. He hopes to have it printed in Madrid. 

 The work is in ten volumes, each 4 J by 3j decimetres. 

 They contain 1,040 plates of fishes of every period of 

 growth. The drawings were made by himself from 

 the life. Many of the plates occupy three, and even 

 six, double pages. About half fill only one single 

 page each. 



The plates represent 758 species of Cuban fishes 

 (1,.300 individuals), 90 scales, 94 vertical sections, 87 

 entire skeletons, 51 half-skeletons, 43 details of skele- 

 tons, 85 complete visceras, 32 details of visceras, 8 

 entozoa, 120 miscellanea. 



— The addresses at the memorial meeting last 

 October in honor of the late Prof. W. B. Rogers, the 

 founder of the Massachusetts institute of technology, 

 have been appropriately published by the Society of 

 arts of the institute in a separate pamphlet. An 

 excellent portrait, apparently from a photograph 

 taken about five years ago, reproduced in heliotypy, 

 accompanies the pamphlet. The addresses were of 

 unusual interest, and well illustrate the breadth and 

 catholicity of Professor Rogers's life. Perhaps the 

 most interesting to the Boston audience were the 

 remarks, toward the close of the meeting, by Major 

 Hotchkiss of Virginia, who spoke of his earlier life in 

 the South. We quote the following passage : — 



" All over th? state of Virginia, even now, you will continu- 

 ally meet people in the country — old men and old women — 

 who recollect the days when Professor Rogers drove up with 

 his gig, with Levi, his negro servant, behind him on horseback, 

 accompanying him in bis geological rambles — recollect with 

 pleasure that familiar lecture in the morning from the doorstep; 

 for he never went away without leaving with each one that he 

 visited a new vision of that which before they had seen with 

 sealed eyes, that it was his delight to unseal. One of the best of 

 our living structural geologists, one of that same Scotch-Irish 

 race, when a flaxen-haired boy, heard Professor Rogers describe 

 to a group of listeners one of the grand arches of one of Vir- 

 ginia's mountain ranges, when, stooping down, like another 

 great teacher, he wrote its structure in the sand, hut wrote for 

 all time. . . . 



" It would furnish material for a singular study, — that primal 

 geological circle. Levi, the negro serving-man, was in it. He 

 became a geologist. He learned to think as his master thought. 

 And when the great French geologist, Daubeny, came to visit 

 Professor Rogers . . . Levi drove him ; and, as they rode through 

 the grand sections of Appalachian structure there displayed, 

 Levi gave him lessons in American geology. ' Dis, sar,' said he, 

 ' we call number one. Mighty fine crap (out-crop) oh it 'long 

 here.' He had so well learned the lesson from the great master 

 of American geology, he could teach jt to the one of French." 



— The international geological congress at Bologna 

 in 1881 appointed a commission to prepare a map of 

 Europe, and the following particulars have now been 

 agreed ui)on: the topographic basis will be prepared 

 by Kiepert, and published by Reimer & Co. at Ber- 

 lin, but with French wording. It will consist of 49 

 sheets on a scale of 1 : 1,500,000, the whole measuring 

 3.72 by 3.36 metres. Mountain shading will be omit- 

 ted. 900 copies have been engaged by various gov- 

 ernments, and thus the price has been brought down 

 to the reasonable figure of 100 francs. Although 

 some six years will be needed for its completion, 

 those who wish copies are requested to subscribe at 

 once. 



— The Archaeological institute of America now 

 numbers about 80 life, and 220 annual members, and, 

 besides its Reports and its Papers (of two series), has 

 commenced the publication of a Bulletin, the first 

 number of which gives a statement by the executive 

 committee of the work of the institute in 1882, as far 

 as regards the undertakings at Assos; a report by 

 Mr. Bandelier on his investigations in New Mexico 

 in the same year; and a note by Mr. Ludlow on a 

 terra-cotta figurine of a centaur from Cyprus, inter- 

 esting as having human fore-legs like those found in 

 the sculpturings of the epistyle of the temple at Assos 

 by the expedition of the institute. Mr. Diller, we 

 learn from the committee's report, spent the greater 

 part of his vacation last year in continuing his studies 

 of the geology of the Troad. 



The paper by Mr. Bandelier is the longest, the most 

 important, and of the largest interest to scientific 

 readers. He reaches the conclusion that the present 

 condition of the Pueblo Indians is not their original 

 one, but has been largely affected by contact with 

 the whites, and that there were only two types of 

 aboriginal architecture in New Mexico, — "the many- 

 storied communal house, and the one-story building 

 of stone." He contrasts, also, the 'cacique' of to- 

 day and that of the old Spanish authors. 



Interest in the work of the institute will be in- 

 creased by the timelier publication of results which 

 the establishment of the Bulletin will permit. 



— The Cincinnati society of natural history cele- 

 brated the birthday of Charles Darwin on Feb. 23. 

 Prof. A. G. Wetherby delivered an address on the 

 Influence of Darwinism upon science, which was 

 followed by an exhibition of microscopes. The re- 

 ception had to be postponed from the 12th, owing to 

 the flood in the Ohio, and the consequent stoppage of 

 the gas-works. 



— In the article The glacial theory before the 

 Philadelphia academy (Science, p. 97), the statement 

 occurs that "the greatest snow-clad elevation in 

 Greenland is Washington Land." The author 

 wishes this changed to " the greatest snow-clad ele- 

 vation in the region of greatest cold (the west) in 

 Greenland," etc. 



