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still unexhausted, and promises to yield fine 

 results again this season. A fourth party is 

 working in western Nebraska especially for 

 fossil horses, with the aid of the William C. 

 Whitney Fund; this is the region where most 

 of Leidy's classical types were found, and it is 

 especially hoped to secure more material in 

 order to determine the actual structure of 

 these highly varied species of horses. In the 

 museum the skeleton of the three-toed Anchi- 

 theriam, secured by the Whitney exploration 

 party last year, has recently been placed on 

 exhibition, and will shortly be described in the 

 Museum Bulletin. Professor E. C. Sterling 

 has donated the fore and hind limbs of Dipro- 

 todon from Lake Callabona, Australia, with 

 foot bones and casts sufficient to mount the 

 feet of this enormous marsupial. Prom Mos- 

 cow has been received through Mme. Pavlow 

 a fine skull of the woolly rhinoceros, B. tichor- 

 hinus. Professor Koken, of Tiibingen, has sent 

 a series of casts of Triassic Dinosaurs. From 

 Lyons, through Professor Charles Deperet, a 

 beautiful series of original teeth of the genus 

 Lophiodon has been received, chiefly Upper 

 Eocene. Mr. Charles Knight has recently com- 

 pleted restorations of the Ichthyosaurus and 

 a revised restoration of Brontosaurus, as well 

 as of Tylosaurus. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



It is announced that the President has des- 

 ignated Col. R. M. O'Reilly to be surgeon- 

 general of the army to succeed General For- 

 wood, who will retire on September 7 next. 

 Colonel O'Reilly would hold the office for sev- 

 en years before reaching the age limit. 



Dr. Pasquale Villahi has been elected presi- 

 dent of the Accademia dei Lincei, Rome. 



Dr. J. G. Garson has been appointed assist- 

 ant general secretary of the British Associa- 

 tion, succeeding the late Mr. G. Griffith. 



We regret to learn that Professor Virchow, 

 who is now in the Hartz Mountains, is again 

 confined to his bed, after having nearly recov- 

 ered from his recent accident. 



Mr. J. E. Spurr, of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, who has for a year been engaged in 



surveys for the government of Turkey, has re- 

 turned to the United States. 



Mr. H. W. Turner has resigned his position 

 in the U. S. Geological Survey to engage in 

 practice as an expert in San Francisco. 



Professor Albert von Kolliker, the emi- 

 nent anatomist, has retired from the chair at 

 the University of Wiirzburg, which he has 

 held for thirty-five years. 



Dr. Ritter von Basch, professor of experi- 

 mental pathology in the University of Vienna, 

 recently celebrated the fortieth anniversary of 

 his doctorate. 



Mr. Paul du Chaillu is at present in Rus- 

 sia collecting materials for a book on the Rus- 

 sians. 



We learn from Nature that among the Brit- 

 ish civil list pensions announced in a parlia- 

 mentary paper are the following: Mr. W. H. 

 Hudson, in recognition of the originality of 

 his writings on natural history, 150L ; the Rev. 

 Dr. John Kerr, F.R.S., in recognition of his 

 valuable discoveries in physical science, 1001. ; 

 Mrs. S. C. Jones, in recognition of the services 

 rendered by her late husband. Principal John 

 Viriamu Jones, to the cause of higher educa- 

 tion in Wales, 75L ; and Mr. H. Ling Roth in 

 consideration of his services to anthropology, 

 701. 



Dr. Charles Kendall Adams died at Red- 

 lands, Cal., on July 27. He was president of 

 Cornell University from 1885 to 1892, when 

 he resigned and became president of the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin. This post he held ac- 

 tively until 1901, when he retired on account 

 of ill health. Since then he had lived in south- 

 ern California, but the University had not 

 accepted his resignation, and he was still presi- 

 dent when he died. He was born at Derby, 

 Vt., on January 24, 1835, and was graduated 

 from the University of Michigan in 1861. Dr. 

 Adams was the author of many works on his- 

 torical and educational subjects, including 

 'Monarchy and Democracy in France' and 'A 

 Manual of Historical Literature.' 



Mr. a. D. Hogg, who had been a botanical 

 assistant to Professor Bayley Balfour in the 

 University of Edinburgh, was drowned on July 



