October 26, 1900.] 



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will be filled by civil service examination on or 

 about November 10th. The salaries of these 

 positions are $1,200 and $900, respectively. In 

 the examinations, experience and education 

 count three, and the answers to questions on 

 the science seven points. In zoology the ex- 

 amination will have special reference to verte- 

 brate and systematic zoology. The positions 

 are open only to men over twenty-one years of 

 age who must be citizens of New York State. 



The government of the Canton of Zurich 

 has voted to increase its annual subsidy to the 

 Concilium Bibliographicum. In the preamble 

 it is stated that this is done in recognition of 

 the high value of the work of the Concilium 

 Bibliographicum, in the hope that others may 

 aid in securing for the undertaking a firm finan- 

 cial basis, with the purpose of offering the full 

 support permitted by the funds at our disposal, 

 be it enacted, etc. This vote which was taken 

 August 15th has led to a similar decision on the 

 part of the town of Zurich, and now a bill has 

 been introduced by the Department of Interior 

 providing for quintupling the federal subsidy 

 and for placing the Concilium under the more 

 immediate control of [the Swiss Government. 

 The ultimate result of these votes will doubt- 

 less be the expansion of the field of activity of 

 the Concilium, so as to include botany, anthro- 

 pology, etc., but for the time being all will be 

 done to render the bibliographies now in exist- 

 ence more complete and to issue them more 

 promptly. 



The Duke of Abruzzi has given the Stel- 

 lar Polare, the vessel in which he made his 

 recent exploring trip to the North, to the 

 Italian Navy. She is to be kept in the naval 

 arsenal at Spezia as a souvenir. 



Me. Andrew Carnegie has presented £10,- 

 000 to the town of Hawick, Roxburgh County, 

 Scotland, for a public library. 



The late Edwin H. Bugbee of Danielson, 

 Connecticut, bequeathed $15,000 and his pri- 

 vate library to the public library of that town. 



The fine new lecture hall of the American 

 Museum of Natural History will be opened 

 with appropriate exercises on Tuesday, October 

 30th. The president of the institution, Mr. Mor- 

 ris K. Jesup, will receive invited guests from 3 



until 6 o'clock. At 4 o'clock some views of the 

 Paris Exposition will be exhibited in the lecture 

 hall by Professor Bickmore. Admission to the 

 new halls in the west wing and an inspection of 

 their archeological and ethnological collections 

 will also be permitted. 



The Library Building of the Historical So- 

 ciety of the State of Wisconsin was dedicated 

 on October 19th. The building, which is practi- 

 cally part of the University of Wisconsin, has 

 been erected at a cost of $575,000. 



We learn from the Botanical Gazette that the 

 Division of Vegetable Physiology and Path- 

 ology of the Department of Agriculture has 

 secured a table at the Marine Biological Lab- 

 oratory at Woods Holl for the use of its staff 

 during the summer .months. 



The British Museuin (Natural History) has 

 started a collection of ' sports ' and ' monstrosi- 

 ties ' among insects and will be glad to receive 

 contributions from entomologists. 



The new dynamometer car which the Illinois 

 Central Eailroad has been building for the Me- 

 chanical Department of the University of Illi- 

 nois, is now ready for use. It is fully equipped 

 and is fitted up with every convenience. The 

 car will be put into active service' immediately 

 on a series of tests begun some time ago by the 

 Illinois Central. 



The collection of rare African antelope skins 

 received in exchange from the Field Columbian 

 Museum are now all mounted and placed on 

 exhibition in the American Museum of Natural 

 History. 



As the daily papers have very fully reported. 

 Count von Zeppelin's air-ship made two ascents. 

 On October 17th it stayed in the air about an 

 hour and was apparently able to make some 

 headway against a light breeze. It could not, 

 however, return to its starting point. 



The German Anthropological Society held its 

 thirty-first annual meeting at Halle from Sep- 

 tember 23d to 27th. 



The new laboratories at King's College, 

 which have been in course of construction dur- 

 ing the past year, are finished and ready for 

 occupation, and the opening ceremony has 

 been fixed for Tuesday, October 30th. Lord 



