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complete skeleton of Lestodon armatus, whicii 

 can be mounted for exhibition, a large ani- 

 mal approaching the megatherium in size; 

 Lestodon myloides is represented by a nearly 

 complete skeleton which can be mounted, also 

 by two skeletons of young animals; there is 

 also a nearly complete skeleton of Mylodon 

 roiustus, which can be mounted by filling 

 out the vertebral column with vertebrae of 

 other individuals; this species is also repre- 

 sented by several incomplete skeletons and 

 skulls; Scelidotherium is represented by two 

 fine skulls, with a third of a skeleton, also by 

 two inferior skulls with the greater part of 

 the skeleton, but hardly sufficient to mount. 

 Work upon the preparation of this collec- 

 tion has already begun, and it will be pushed 

 forward as rapidly as possible. It will be 

 arranged partly zoologically and partly faun- 

 istieally, in connection with the Patagonian 

 collection made by Mr. Barnum Brown three 

 years ago, which is now almost completely 

 worked out for exhibition. The Patagonian 

 types are largely ancestral to those of the 

 Pampean, and while the latter contain an 

 admixture of the northern forms, the faunal 

 arrangement of these successive series so 

 strikingly characteristic of South America 

 will be of very great interest. H. F. O. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



Professor F. W. Clarke, of the U. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey, has been invited to deliver the 

 Wilde lecture before the Manchester Literary 

 and Philosophical Society next year on the 

 occasion of the celebration of the hundredth 

 anniversary of the propounding of the atomic 

 theory at Manchester by Dalton. Professor 

 Clarke will at the same time be given the 

 Wilde gold medal of the society. 



Dr. W. L. Bryan, president of Indiana Uni- 

 versity, has been elected president of the 

 American Psychological Association. 



The King of Denmark has conferred an 

 order of knighthood on Lord Lister. 



A MARBLE bust of Sir William Muir, until 

 recently principal of the University of Edin- 

 burgh, was unveiled on December 19. Sir 

 William Turner received the bust on behalf 

 of the university. 



Professor H. V. Hilpeeci-it, of the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania, lectured on January 

 16 before the Anthropological Society at Ber- 

 lin on his excavations at Nippur. He expects 

 to return to America shortly, and will then 

 leave on a further expedition. 



Dr. Alfred Emerson, formerly professor of 

 classical archeology at Cornell, has returned 

 from a five years' absence in Europe and Asia 

 Minor. He has recently been collecting anti- 

 quities for the Hearst collection at the Uni- 

 versity of California. 



At the recent meeting of the Iowa Park and 

 Forestry Association at Des Moines, Professor 

 Macbride, of the State University of Iowa, 

 gave the president's address. At a joint meet- 

 ing of the Park Association and the Iowa 

 Horticultural Society, Professor Shimek read 

 a paper on the Iowa oaks. Professor Mae- 

 bride was reelected president of the association. 



Mr. John Hyde, statistician of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, has been awarded dam- 

 ages to the amount of $2,500 by the New 

 Orleans courts against a firm of cotton 

 brokers, which in December, 1901, caused a 

 cable dispatch to be sent to Liverpool, Eng- 

 land, to the effect that the United States 

 Government cotton report was incorrect and 

 unreliable, and intimating that the report 

 was in the interest of speculators. 



The Alumni Register of the University of 

 Pennsylvania announces that Dr. Simon 

 Flexner, professor of pathology, has received 

 a grant from the Carnegie Institution, and 

 that his assistant. Dr. Noguchi, has been ap- 

 pointed the first research assistant. It is re- 

 ported in the daily papers that the Lick Ob- 

 servatory has received from the institution a 

 grant of $4,000. 



The Manchester Literary and Philosophical 

 Society has awarded its Dalton medal to Pro- 

 fessor Osborne Reynolds, F.E.S. 



Professor Schwendener, of Berlin, has 

 been elected president of the German Botan- 

 ical Society and Professor von Wettstein, of 

 Vienna, vice-president. 



The Academy of Sciences of Gottingen has 

 elected as corresponding members Professors 

 Bezold (physics) and von Eichthofen (geog- 



