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author of ' The Butterflies of India, Burmah, 

 and Ceylon,' and other contributions to en- 

 tomology. 



• The death is announced of M. Charles 

 Maunoir, for thirty-seven years secretary of 

 the Paris Geographical Society, and the author 

 of annual reports on geographical discoveries. 



Me. and Mrs. Habold S. McCormick, of Chi- 

 cago, -have founded a memorial institute for 

 infectious diseases to commemorate their son 

 who died recently from scarlet fever. The 

 endovsonent of the institute is said in the daily 

 papers to be $1,000,000. Dr. Frank Billings 

 is president of the board of trustees and Dr. 

 Ludvig Hektoen has been appointed director of 

 the institute. 



It is reported that Secretary Long will re- 

 new his request to Congress for an appropria- 

 tion of $230,000 for the purchase of land and 

 the erection of a building for the use of the 

 naval hydrographic service. 



Mr. Andrew CjVRNecie has offered $25,000 

 for a public library building at Melrose, Mass. ; 

 $20,000 for a library building at Saratoga 

 Springs, N. Y., and the same sum for a similar 

 building at St. Catherine's, Ont. 



Subscriptions amounting to over $105,000 

 were announced at the annual meeting of the 

 New York Historical Society toward the new 

 building, which is to be erected at Central 

 Park West, between Seventy-sixth and Sev- 

 enty-seventh Streets. 



The library of the late Baron von Norden- 

 skjold has been purchased by the University of 

 Hellingsfors for about $50,000. 



A Reuter's telegram states that Mr. Wil- 

 liam Bruce, the leader of the Scottish Antarctic 

 expedition, has purchased the Norwegian 

 steam whaler Hecla for his forthcoming ex- 

 pedition. The vessel will shortly be brought 

 over to be refitted on the Clyde, where Mr. 

 Bruce is availing himself of the guidance of 

 Mr. G. L. Watson, the yacht builder. The 

 Antarctic, with Professor Nordenskj old's 

 South Polar expedition on board, left Buenos 

 Ayres on December 20 for the Falkland 

 Islands. The Discovery left Lyttleton on De- 



cember 21. The leakage has been stopped, ex- 

 cept in the fore-peak, where eight minutes' 

 pumping daily is sufficient. 



The Arctic Club held its eighth annual din- 

 ner at Hotel Marlborough, New York City, 

 December 28, Professor William H, Brewer 

 presiding. 



At the recent Columbia meeting of the So-, 

 ciety for Plant Morphology and Physiology, 

 it was pointed out that the American mem- 

 bers of the Association Internationale des 

 Botanistes will soon be called upon to vote 

 by ballot for two members of the general com- 

 mittee. It was felt that in the absence of 

 nominations the votes would be scattering and 

 perhaps in many cases not cast at all. No- 

 body of botanists appears to have authority 

 to make such nominations, but it was sug- 

 gested that as this Society had managed the 

 correspondence with the former owners of the 

 Botanisehes Ceniralblatt, and later with the 

 officers of the Association Internationale, it 

 might not seem inappropriate for this Society 

 to suggest such nominations. Accordingly, on 

 this basis, the Society nominated Professors 

 C. E. Bessey and W. F. Ganong. 



The Archeological Institute of America has 

 this year established a traveling fellowship for 

 researches in Central America, and Mr. Al- 

 fred M. Tozzer, who was last year a graduate 

 student at Harvard, taking Professor Put- 

 nam's research course in American Archeology 

 ajid Ethnology, has been appointed to the fel- 

 lowship. During the past summer Mr. Tozzer 

 accompanied Professor Putnam to New 

 Mexico where he was successful in a study of 

 the language and ceremonies of the Navajo 

 Indians. During the summer of the previous 

 year he was engaged, in similar research 

 among the Indians of California. He is thus, 

 in many ways especially qualified for this 

 research in Central America. Mr. Tozzer is 

 now oh his way to Yucatan for the purpose" 

 of studying the language and customs of fhe^ 

 Mayas, preliminary to a study of the Maya 

 hieroglyphs, and with the hope that there may 

 possibly be some tradition which would give 

 a clue to some of the glyphs. The Institute 

 Committee on this fellowship consists of. 



