JULY 9, 1897. ] 
THE steamship Hope, commanded by Captain 
John Bartlett, has been again chartered by 
Lieutenant Peary, who will leave Boston to 
join the steamship between July 10th and 12th. 
THE daily papers state thatadditional details 
of the eruption of the Mayou volcano, in the 
Province of Albany, Philippine Islands, show 
that 120 of the inhabitants of the village of Li- 
boug perished. The village was greatly damaged 
and the tobacco crop of the vicinity was de- 
stroyed. The eruption was accompanied by an 
earthquake, the shocks being felt over an area 
of one mile. The volcano of Mayou has not 
been active since 1617. 
THE third session of the Greenacre lectures 
opened on July 1st and will continue until Sep- 
tember 3d. Daily lectures are given on sub- 
jects of scientific, literary and philosophical 
interest. The congress will take advantage of 
the meeting of electrical engineers at Greenacre 
and announces as part of the program lectures 
by Professors Barker, Brackett, Duncan, 
Crocker, Pupin, Cross and others. 
THE International Institute of Bibliography 
at Brussels announces the holding of its second 
conference, August 2-4, 1897. 
THE American Journal of Archzxology, hith- 
erto edited by Professor A. lL. Frothingham, 
Jr., has been transferred to the Archeological 
Institute of America, and will hereafter be pub- 
lished in a second series by the Macmillan Com- 
pany. Professor John H. White, of Harvard 
University, will be the editor-in-chief, with Pro- 
fessor James R. Wheeler, of Columbia Univer- 
sity, and Professor Allan Marquand, of Prince- 
ton University, as assistant editors. 
DR. PERSIFOR FRAZER, who, at the wish of 
the late Professor Cope, has been for two 
months acting as managing editor pro tem. of 
the American Naturalist, has been succeeded 
temporarily by Mr. A. M. Brown, of Philadel- 
phia. 
Natural Science calls attention to the fact that 
over a century ago there was founded a zoolog- 
ical record, viz., F. A. A. Meyer’s Zoologische 
Annalen, which was published at Weimar in 
1794, and ran for one year only. Meyer gave 
an account of zoological works issued up to 
Easter and up to Michaelmas, 1793, an aphabet- 
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ical list of all living zoologists, an account of 
all the zoological collections known to him, and 
a sketch of all the new animals described dur- 
ing the year, in systematic order. 
Mr. A. W. BENNETT will succeed Professor 
F. J. Bell as editor of the Journal of the Royal 
Microscopical Society. 
A Zeitschrift fir comprimirte und fliissige Gase, 
edited by Dr. M. Altschul, will herefter be 
published in Berlin by L. Esterman. The 
first number was opened by an article by Pro- 
fessor Raoul Pictet, followed by articles by 
Professor H. F. Wiebe and Professor M. 
Thiesen. 
Ir is noted in Industries and Iron that accord- 
ing to a recent American Consular report, at a 
place called Tongshan, about eighty miles from 
Tien-tsin, the Chinese have established extensive 
railway carriage building works, in which the 
rolling-stock for the extension of the railway is 
being constructed. Only the axles, wheels, 
springs and couplers are imported, and the 
Consul expresses himself as surprised at the 
excellence and finish of the passenger carriages 
turned out by native labor. The Chinese En- 
gineering and Mining Company have attained 
an output of 2,000 tons of coal daily from the 
mines in the vicinity, and large extensions are 
being contemplated. 
WE have already announced that next year 
Captain Sverdrup proposes to take the Fram up 
Smith Sound to the northwest coast of Green- 
land, for the purpose of prosecuting explorations 
in that direction. The London Times states 
that, though Dr. Nansen will not accompany 
the party, there is reason to believe that he 
is taking an active share in the direction of the 
expedition. The object will be to penetrate 
north through Smith Sound and Robeson Chan- 
nel as far as possible along the northwest 
coast of Greenland. An attempt will be made 
to discover how far Greenland extends north- 
ward, and to survey the northwest, north and 
northeast coasts. In short, one prime object 
will be to complete the exploration of the 
Greenland coast, a considerable extent of which 
is still quite unknown. It will be remembered 
that Lieutenant Peary carried explorations 
further eastward than had been previously 
