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■Groups of Birds,' 'The Museum's New 

 Whales' and 'The Eesults of the Tjader 

 Expedition.' It also notes that Mrs. Eoesler 

 has heen appointed as guide to the collections 

 for members visiting the museum. In this 

 •connection it may be noted that the Museum 

 of Fine Arts, Boston, has just added to its 

 staff a Docerd whose ofSce is to take parties, 

 not exceeding ten in number, about the mu- 

 seum and explain the collections. 



The Zoological Society Bulletin for April 

 is termed the Aquarium Number and is de- 

 voted entirely to aquatic animals. It con- 

 tains articles on ' The Care of Goldfishes ' and 

 ' The Care of Turtles and Small Alligators,' 

 ^ The Centennial of the Aquarium Building ' 

 with a cut showing its appearance in 1852. 

 Other articles are on ' Poisonous Fishes,' ' The 

 Drum Fish,' 'Blind Fishes' and 'The Uses 

 of the Fins of Fishes.' The measurements 

 are given of two unusually large sea turtles, 

 one a loggerhead, weighing 395 pounds, the 

 other a green turtle, weighing 540 pounds. 



Bird-Lore for March-April has for its prin- 

 cipal articles ' The House-Finch from an 

 Office Window,' by W. H. Bergtold; 'Bird 

 dubs in America, III., The Maine Ornithol- 

 ogical Society,' by J. Merton Swain ; ' Clay 

 Bird-Houses and Bird-Baths,' by R. W. Heg- 

 ner, and the second paper on ' The Migration 

 of Thrushes,' by W. W. Cooke. The Educa- 

 tional Leaflet, by Mabel Osgood Wright, is 

 on ' The Eed-winged Blackbird.' The report 

 of the Audubon societies gives a resume of 

 various laws proposed or passed. 



The Museums Journal of Great Britain for 

 March contains various contributions to the 

 discussion on museum cases which formed a 

 feature of the last meeting, including a de- 

 scription of a ' Rotary Cabinet for Museum 

 Specimens,' by Rev. S. J. Ford. This cabinet 

 contains 22 trays which may be successively 

 brought to the top, which is glazed, in order 

 that their contents may be seen. 



Announcements have been sent out from 

 Bologna, Italy, of the publication there in the 

 immediate future of a new scientific review, 

 to be called Rivista di Scienza, which is de- 



scribed by the editors as ' an international 

 review of scientific synthesis.' This new pub- 

 lication is not intended to present the results 

 of special investigation in narrow fields, but 

 rather to take a wide look over all the lines of 

 scientific activity and to review in each in as 

 clear and simple a way as possible the work 

 which is being done and the problems which 

 are coming up. Biology, chemistry, physics, 

 mathematics, geology, sociology, political econ- 

 omy, psychology and pedagogy are all repre?- 

 sented in the list of articles which are to ap- 

 pear in the first numbers. Subjects' of general 

 interest in all branches of scientific work will 

 be presented, and treated in a manner as little 

 technical as possible in order that they may be 

 intelligible to a wide circle of readers. The 

 correlation and connection between different 

 groups of sciences are to be particularly de- 

 veloped. It is to be cosmopolitan in its out- 

 look and almost every country in which scien- 

 tific work is being done is already well repre- 

 sented in the list of contributors. "It is 

 born," say the editors, "from the desire to 

 coordinate the work carried on in different 

 fields of knowledge and to make the task of 

 synthesis easier " and " it invites such studious 

 persons as are desirous (without sacrificing 

 time employed by them in the certain way of 

 analytical research) of discussing in its col- 

 umns the general questions regarding their 

 special branch of science, to set forth in a 

 widely accessible form the results obtained 

 from it. It hopes especially to have the col- 

 laboration of those who desire to study the 

 relationship, ever new and ever closer, which 

 exists between the different branches of study, 

 and it counts on the favor of all those who 

 recognize the danger of excessive specializa- 

 tion and would be glad to promote a wider 

 appreciation of the problems of science." It 

 is to be issued quarterly and each number will 

 contain from 150 to 200 pages, forming an 

 annual volume of from 600 to 800 pages. Two 

 editions are to be issued: one, an international 

 edition in which each article will appear in 

 the language of its author, and another in- 

 tended for circulation in Italy in which all 

 articles in any foreign language other than 



