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a member of the Entomological and Zoological 

 Societies. 



There will be a civil service examination 

 on Jvme 13 for the position of statistical clerk 

 in the Geological Survey, at a salary of from 

 $1,000 to $1,800 per aimum, according to 

 qualifications. 



The Prince of Monaco has offered to give 

 his Museum of Oceanography and Laboratory 

 for the Investigation of the Seas, now at 

 Monaco, to the city of Paris, with an endow- 

 ment of $1,000,000. The institution is to be 

 under the charge of an international com- 

 mittee. 



By the will of Eoland Hayward, of Milton, 

 Mass., the Museum of Comparative Zoology 

 of Harvard University will receive the testa- 

 tor's collection of Coleoptera. The Boston 

 Society of Natural History is given the right 

 of selecting any works on entomology that may 

 be lacking in its library. The balance of the 

 works on entomology is left to the Milton 

 Public Library. 



The biological laboratory of the United 

 States Bureau of Fisheries at Wood's Hole, 

 Mass., will be opened as usual this summer 

 for a period of about three months, beginning 

 June 16. A limited number of research tables 

 are annually placed at the disposal of qualified 

 investigators free of charge. Materials -for 

 various studies in marine biology are yielded 

 by collecting expeditions continually in prog- 

 ress. Candidates should apply as early as 

 possible either to the Commissioner of Fish- 

 eries, Washington, D. C, or to the director 

 of the laboratory. Dr. F. B. Sumner, 17 Lex- 

 ington Avenue, New York City. 



The Torrey Botanical Club held, on May 23, 

 a meeting to celebrate the tenth anniversary 

 of the beginning of work in the development 

 of the New York Botanical Garden. The 

 meeting was held in the museum building of 

 the garden. Professor Henry H. Eusby, 

 president of the club, gave an address on ' The 

 History of Botany in New York,' which was 

 followed by an informal reception in the mu- 

 seum halls, library and laboratories. 



The editor of the Monthly Weather Review 

 invites librarians to address the Weather 



Bureau, Washington, D. C, as to what num- 

 bers or volumes are needed in order to complete 

 their sets of this periodical. 



The director of the Geological Survey has 

 recommended in a letter to the Secretary of 

 the Interior that the United States accept the 

 invitation of the German government to join 

 the International Seismological Association, 

 provided that congress shall see fit to make 

 the necessary appropriation. The total sum 

 that congress is called on to appropriate an- 

 nually is $1,300, which includes $800, the fee 

 that the United States would be required to 

 contribute to the association, and $500 for the 

 expenses of the delegate. 



The summer meeting of the Anatomical 

 Society of Great Britain and Ireland wiU be 

 held in Belfast on the first and second of 

 June. Dr. Symington, professor in Queen's 

 College, Belfast, writes : " Should any of the 

 American anatomists be on this side of the 

 Atlantic at that time we should be very 

 pleased to see them at our meeting, and if 

 they let me know in time I will arrange to 

 have them put up during their stay here. 

 After the meeting there will be an excursion 

 along the Antrim coast with a visit to the 

 Giant's Causeway." It is to be hoped that 

 some of our American anatomists will be able 

 to take advantage of this kind invitation. 



The eighty-ninth annual meeting of the 

 Swiss Society of Natural Science will be held 

 at St. Gall from July 21 to August 1, under 

 the presidency of Dr. G. Ambuhl.- 



The German Bunsen Society held its meet- 

 ing this week at Dresden. 



The ninth annual meeting of the British 

 Childhood Society was held on May 8, at the 

 residence of the president. Earl Egerton of 

 Tatton. Sir Edward Brabrook delivered an 



The twenty-eighth conference of the Amer- 

 ican Library Association will be held at Nar- 

 ragansett Pier, E. I., from Friday, June 29, 

 to Saturday, July 7. 



Captain Boyd Alexander, writing from 

 Angu, Africa, says the Alexander-Gosling ex- 

 pedition has obtained the skin of an okapi. 



