AvGust 20, 1897. ] 
THE Zettschrift fiir Psychologie und Physiologie 
der Sinnesorgane, edited by Professors H. Eb- 
binghaus and Arthur Konig, and published since 
its foundation by Leopold Voss, Hamburg, will 
hereafter be published by J. A. Barth, Leipzig. 
The same publisher will also assume the publi- 
eation of the continuation of Professor J. von 
Kries’ ‘Abhandlungen zur Physiologie der Ge- 
sichtsempfindungen’ and of Helmholtz’s ‘ Vor- 
lesungen tiber Theoretische Physik,’ of which 
latter work they hope to publish two further 
volumes during the coming year. 
WE are glad to note the establishment of a 
monthly scientific journal at DeLand, Fla., en- 
titled Studies from Nature. Although the sub- 
scription price is only 50 cents per annum, we 
fear that the publishers will not succeed in se- 
curing the 50,000 subscribers that they expect. 
Such local journals devoted to the natural sci- 
ences as they appeal to amateurs are healthful 
signs of an interest in what the conductors of 
this journal call ‘The Wonders and Beauties of 
Nature.’ 
Dr. W. FLINDERS PETRIE, the Egyptologist, 
has sent, according to the daily papers, to Dr. 
Breasod, of the University of Chicago, a valu- 
able collection of relies excavated along the 
Nile. Among these are statues of Nen Khefea, 
a wealthy nobleman, and his wife, which are 
said to be nearly 5,000 years old. They are of 
limestone and are remarkably well preserved. 
They will go to the Haskell Oriental Museum 
of the University. 
WE learn from Natural Science that the 
Zoological Museum of the Royal Academy. of 
Science, St. Petersburg, has acquired thirty- 
three specimens of fossil bones and numerous 
remains of Post-Tertiary mammals collected 
by J. Savenkoy at Krasnoyarsk. Among them 
are some bones and a piece of skin of Rhinoceros 
tichorhinus, which were taken from a well-pre- 
served specimen of a rhinoceros, covered with 
skin, found 60 versts east of Kasatschje, on 
the bank of the Charaula, a left tributary of the 
Tomskaia. Dr. G. Stefanescu, the eminent 
Roumanian geologist, has discovered two por- 
tions of the mandible of a species of Camelus in 
an undoubted Quaternary gravel, six meters 
below the surface on the river bank of the Olt 
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at Milcovul-de-jos, near Slatina, Roumania. 
He regards the species to which they belong as 
new, and names it Camelus alutensis. 
We learn from Nature that at a meeting of 
the Essex Field Club, on July 21st, a discussion 
was held for the consideration of practical 
methods for the protection of our native fauna 
and flora from the destruction and actual ex- 
termination which now threaten many interest- 
ing species. Mr. C. G. Barrett (Hon. Secre- 
tary to the Committee of the Entomological 
Society for the Protection of Insects in danger 
of extermination) opened the subject by a short 
address on ‘Insect protection; its necessity, 
means and objects.’ Mr. J. H. Harting spoke 
with respect to birds and mammals; Professor 
Boulger referred to the wholesale collecting 
which was exterminating many rare plants; 
and Professor Meldola urged that children 
should be taught to respect the sacredness of 
life. The following resolution of Professor 
Boulger’s was adopted unanimously, and the 
Club resolved to assist the scheme of the Ento- 
mological Society in every possible way: ‘‘ That 
in view of the danger of extermination threaten- 
ing many beautiful, rare and interesting plants, 
all lovers of nature should do their best to avoid 
this danger: (a) By abstaining from wholesale 
collecting, collecting for merely individual pri- 
vate collections, needless rooting-up of speci- 
mens, attempting to cultivate wild specimens 
of refractory species, and purchasing such wild 
specimens from itinerant or other dealers; (0) 
by endeavoring to persuade others, especially 
school children, cottage gardeners, and dwellers 
in large towns, to a similar abstention.’’ 
A ReEuTER telegram from Stockholm says 
that in a letter to the Aftonblad, Dr. Nils Ek- 
holm, who accompanied Herr Andrée to Spitz- 
bergen last year with the intention of taking 
part in his aerial voyage, offers some remarks 
on the prospect of the expedition based on the 
full details now received of Herr Andrée’s as- 
cent. Herr Ekholm declined to go this year 
because he considered that the impermeability 
of the balloon was unsatisfactory. In his letter 
he points out that from the day the balloon was 
fully inflated it lost 51 cubic meters of gas 
every 24 hours, representing a diminution in 
