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may be offered to take such steps as may be 

 necessary to secure the return of the stolen 

 property to the National Museum of Brazil. 



The American Museum Journal states tbat 

 through interest created by the Roosevelt 

 South American expedition, the Museum has 

 received six hundred birds and fifty mammals, 

 presented by the Goeldi Museum of Para, 

 through its director of zoology, Dr. Emilie 

 Snethlage. The members of the North Ameri- 

 can expedition when passing through Para in 

 May, 1914, called on Dr. Snethlage to ex- 

 amine the rich collections of Amazonian 

 fauna which she, and her predecessor Doctor 

 Goeldi, have amassed. Dr. Snethlage writes 

 that shortly after the Roosevelt party passed 

 through Para she herself embarked on an 

 expedition into the unexplored portions of the 

 Upper Xingu, on which she was absent seven 

 months. 



Prepaeations for an enrollment of a hun- 

 dred students at the summer session of the 

 Puget Sound Marine Station have been made 

 by Dr. Theodore C. Prye, acting dean of the 

 college of science and director of the biolog- 

 ical plant at Friday Harbor. Dr. Frye re- 

 cently returned from the station, having spent 

 several days there arranging for the season's 

 work. Last year there were 43 students, prac- 

 tically all of whom were college graduates, 

 doing research work. This year parties are ex- 

 pected from educational institutions in Illi- 

 nois, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska and Utah. 

 An improved water supply is afforded the sta- 

 tion this year. Heretofore deep wells have 

 furnished the water, which was not, however, 

 good for experimental purposes. Friday 

 Harbor now gets its supply from Echo Lake, 

 and mineral content will no longer be a handi- 

 cap. A new gravel road from the station to 

 the town of Friday Harbor is another conveni- 

 ence completed this year. The shrimp steamer 

 Violet, which was chartered last year, wiU 

 again dredge for laboratory material, which 

 abounds at the bottom of the harbor at a depth 

 of about 100 fathoms. 



The Lake Laboratory of the Ohio State 

 ■University at Cedar Point, is this year under 

 the direction of Professor Herbert Osborn, 

 head of the department of zoology. Edward L. 



Fullmer, M.Sc, of Baldwin Wallace College 

 at Berea, Ohio, will supervise the work in bot- 

 any. Professor Frederick H. Krecker, of the 

 department of zoology of the Ohio State Uni- 

 versity, and Professor S. R. Williams, of 

 Miami University, wiU have charge of the 

 work in zoology. Charles G. Shatzer, M.A., 

 of Wittenberg College, will teach the classes 

 on birds. The laboratory is situated on the 

 shore of Sandusky Bay, where students have 

 access to marshes, river, forests, sandy beaches 

 and rocky islands. At Put-in-Bay is the 

 United States fish hatchery, and glacial 

 groves are at Kelly's Island. 



On June 18, 1915, the Board of Estimate 

 and Apportionment of New York City passed 

 a resolution authorizing the issue of $100,000 

 corporate stock of the City of New York to 

 provide means for permanent improvements at 

 the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, including the 

 completion of the laboratory building and 

 plant houses. This action was taken follow- 

 ing the generous offer of Mr. Alfred T. White, 

 chairman of the Botanic Garden Committee 

 of the Brooklyn Institute trustees, to secure a 

 like sum by private subscription. The amount 

 was subscribed by Mr. White, and the donors 

 of the original endowment of the garden. 

 Plans are now being prepared for the com- 

 pletion of the buildings, only one fifth of which 

 are now erected. It is expected that ground 

 wiU be broken this coming fall. 



Nature calls attention to the forthcoming 

 sale of Stonehenge by auction. The property 

 is under the protection of the Ancient Monu- 

 ments Act, which ensures its preservation; 

 and the auctioneers, Messrs. Knight, Frank 

 and Rutley, 20 Hanover Square, W., announce 

 that Sir Cosmo Antrobus, who is only tenant 

 for life, proposes, if his powers permit him to 

 do so, to impose conditions providing for the 

 public having access thereto for all time. It 

 is hoped, however, that Stonehenge may be 

 bought either by the government or by a 

 learned society, and if any reasonable proposal 

 be made for its acquisition with the intention 

 of preserving the monument in the public in- 

 terest, the auctioneers are instructed to facili- 

 tate a sale by private treaty before the auction. 



