OCTOBER 22, 1897.] 
THE Audubon Monument Association of 
New Orleans is collecting money for a monu- 
ment of Audubon to be placed in the park 
named after him in New Orleans. For this pur- 
pose the Association offers to sell a memorial 
volume giving an account of Audubon’s life, 
prepared by Mrs. M. F. Bradford. 
A CHEMICAL society has been formed at Brown 
University. It heldits first meeting on October 
5th, when an address was given by Professor 
John Howard Appleton on ‘ Recent Discoveries 
in Chemistry.’ 
‘ FounpErs’ Day at Lafayette College was cele- 
brated on October 20th, the exercises being a 
tribute to Professor T. C. Porter, who this 
year retires from active service after sixty years 
devoted to the natural sciences, which he has 
taught at Lafayette College for thirty years. 
According to the program addresses were to have 
been made by Professor Nathaniel L. Britton, 
of Columbia University, the director of the 
New York Botanic Garden, on ‘The Progress 
of Systematic Botany in North America,’ by 
Professor William B. Scott, professor of geol- 
ogy in Princeton University, on ‘Thirty Years 
of Geological Progress in North America,’ and 
by Dr. John M. Crawford, of the class of 1871, 
lately Consul-General to St. Petersburg, on ‘ Dr. 
Porter as Pioneer in Finnish Literature.’ 
THE Commissioners of Works and Public 
Buildings, London, offer to distribute this au- 
tumn, among the working classes and poor in- 
habitants of London, the surplus bedding-out 
plants in Hyde and Regent’s Parks and in the 
pleasure gardens of Hampton Court. 
The Auk states that a unique and exceedingly 
appropriate memorial to the late Henry Davis 
Minot consists of a park of some fifty acres in 
extent, recently transferred by his four brothers, 
William, Charles S., Robert and Lawrence 
Minot, in accordance with the wishes of their 
father, the late William Minot, to the trustees 
of public reservations in Massachusetts, to be 
maintained as a wild park, ‘for the use of the 
public forever.’ This park, to be known as 
Mount Anne Park, consists of a tract of about 
fifty acres of beautiful woodland near the vil- 
lage of West Gloucester, Mass. It includes 
Mount Anne, or Thompson’s Mountain, the 
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highest point on the North Shore, some 225 feet 
above the sea—a pine-clad, granite summit in 
the midst of a forest wilderness. The park is 
otherwise charmingly diversified, being a spot 
of exceptional natural beauty. 
THE Lowell textile school has opened its 
second year with an attendance of 230 students, 
twice as many as last year. Classes this year 
will be formed by Professor W. W. Crosby, of 
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
Professor Fenwick, of Umpleby, and others. 
Mr. C. W. ANDREWS, of the British Museum, 
has been sent by the trustees to Christmas 
Island, the expenses of the expedition being 
defrayed by Dr. John Murray, for the purpose 
of making collections of the fauna for the 
British Museum. Christmas Island, about 200 
miles south of Java, is only inhabited by some 
twenty-two persons, but it is soon to be used by 
a phosphate company, hence the importance of 
making collections of the fauna and flora, which 
are unusually interesting, a large proportion of 
all the species being endemic. 
Messrs. MAcMILLAN & Co., Limited, have 
removed from their familiar building near 
Covent Garden to St. Martin’s street, London, 
W. C., where they have erected a magnificent 
building of Portland stone, with a frontage of 
106 feet in Whitcomb street, 99 feet in St. Mar- 
tin’s street and 24 feet in Blue Cross street. 
The editorial and publishing offices of Nature 
are removed to the new site, as also the British 
agency of SCIENCE. 
Tue valuable collection of vertebrata made 
by Mr. A. C. Savin from the forest bed, Norfolk, 
has been purchased by the British Museum . 
(Natural History). 
THE Sunday Inter-Ocean, Chicago, has pub- 
lished in successive issues a series of articles 
on the collection of fossils of Mr. W. T. E. 
Gurley, from 1893 to 1897 State Geologist of 
Illinois. In addition to tens of thousands of 
duplicates and unclassified specimens, the col- 
lection is said to contain over 14,000 species, 
all labeled and in good condition, divided about 
as follows: Types of batrachians and reptiles, 
65; fishes (entire), 145; fish teeth, spines and 
bones, 765; insects and arachnids, 66 ; myria- 
pods and crustaceans (exclusive of trilobites), 
