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Edwin C. Kent, and the following heads from 

 Mr. H. Casimir de Eham: Karelin sheep, 

 Turkestan sheep, Astor markhor, two Hima- 

 layan ibex, Quchim buffalo, Newfoundland 

 caribou, musk ox and sable antelope. 



Library. — The administration building will 

 also contain the library, which now numbers 

 1,378 volumes. A fund of $2,000 was pro- 

 vided by two of the friends of the society for 

 this purpose. 



Gifts. — Among the most notable gifts have 

 been a remarkable series of arctic animals 

 from Mr. Paul J. Eainey, as follows: Six 

 musk ox, two walrus, two polar bears, one blue 

 fox. 



Pheasant Expedition. — The New York Zo- 

 ological Society expedition for pheasants is 

 now in Siam, and is expected to return to 

 New York some time during the summer of 

 1911. The expedition has been successful in 

 securing specimens, living and dead, of nearly 

 all the pheasants in the districts visited. 



Aquarium. — The New York Aquarium has, 

 in its present building, nearly reached the 

 limit of its capacity both for its collections 

 and for visitors. The enormous attendance 

 makes it necessary to provide a larger and 

 more modern building, and several studies of 

 plans for this purpose have been made. The 

 city will be asked to provide the necessary 

 funds for the new aquarium. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Sir Francis Galton, eminent for his con- 

 tributions to geography, meteorology, biology, 

 anthropology and psychology, died on Jan- 

 uary 18, at the age of eighty-eight years. 



At the annual meeting of the trustees of the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington, Dr. 

 Simon Flexner, of the Eockefeller Institute of 

 Medical Eesearch, Mr. Eobert S. Brookings, 

 of St. Louis, and Dr. Henry Pickering Wal- 

 cott, of Boston, were elected to membership in 

 the board. 



Sir John Murray will give a memorial ad- 

 dress on "The Life and Scientific Works of 

 Alexander Agassiz," at Sanders Theater, Har- 



vard University, on Tuesday evening, Feb- 

 ruary 14. 



The next Faraday lecture of the Chemical 

 Society of London is to be given on June 14 

 by Professor Theodore W. Eichards, of Har- 

 vard University, in Faraday's lecture-room at 

 the Eoyal Institution on Albemarle Street, 

 London. 



Dr. Jacques Loeb, of the Eockefeller Insti- 

 tute for Medical Eesearch, has been elected an 

 associate of the Eoyal Academy of Science at 

 Belgium, in the section of natural science; 

 and also an honorary foreign member of the 

 Academy of Medicine of Belgium. 



Dr. Ales Hrdlicka has been made a corre- 

 sponding member of the Academy of Sciences, 

 Prague. 



Sir David Gill has been elected a foreign 

 member of the Swedish Eoyal Academy of 

 Sciences, Stockholm. 



M. Edouard Branly has been elected a mem- 

 ber of the Paris Academy of Sciences in the 

 section of chemistry. He received thirty votes, 

 twenty-eight votes being cast for Madame 

 Curie. 



Dr. David Ferrier, F.E.S., emeritus pro- 

 fessor of neuropathology in King's College, 

 London, has been knighted. 



Professor M. E. Cooley, dean of the de- 

 partment of engineering of the University of 

 Michigan, was given the degree of doctor of 

 engineering by the University of Nebraska on 

 January 18. 



The Geological Society of London will this 

 year award its medals and funds as follows: 

 The WoUaston Medal to Professor Waldemar 

 C. Brogger, ScD. ; the Murchison Medal to 

 Mr. Eichard H. Tiddeman, M.A.; the Lyell 

 Medal to Dr. Francis A. Bather, M.A., and Dr. 

 Arthur W. Eowe; the Bigsby Medal to Dr. O. 

 Abel; the Wollaston Fund to Professor O. T. 

 Jones, M.A. ; the Murchison Fund to Mr. 

 Edgar S. Cobbold; the Lyell Fund to Pro- 

 fessor Charles G. Cullis, D.Sc, and Mr. John 

 F. N. Green. 



Additional grants have been made to Pro- 

 fessor T. W. Eichards and to Professor G. P. 

 Baxter, of Harvard University, of $2,500 and 



