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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. I. No. '. 



i/hat subscriptions have been received of a 

 sufficient amount to procure a portrait in 

 oil, which will soon be completed and pre- 

 sented to the University. The artist selected 

 is Mr. Eobert G. Hardie, of New York. 



ENTOMOLOGY. 



In a paper read to the K. Bohm. Gesell- 

 schaft der "Wissenschaften on November 23d 

 last, Dr. Anton Fritsch, of Prag, announced 

 the discovery in the Permian beds of Bo- 

 hemia of the larval cases of a caddis-fly. 

 This is the first indication of the existence 

 of insects with a complete metamorphosis 

 in paleozoic times, unless the doubtful ii-ag- 

 ments found by Dathe in Silesian culm are 

 to be regarded as shards of beetles, or the 

 passages found in certain carboniferous 

 woods are to be credited to coleopterous 

 larvae. It is to be hoped that Dr. Fritsch 

 will amply illustrate these remains in his 

 great work now in progress on the Fauna 

 der Gaskohle Bohmens. 



GENERAL. 



Peofessob Warburg, of Freiberg, has 

 been called to Berlin as the successor of 

 Kundt. 



Professor Kulz, of Mai-burg, known for 

 his researches in physiological chemistry, 

 died on Januarjr 16. 



Macmillan & Co. announce a translation 

 by Dr. A. C. Porter, of the University of 

 Pennsylvania, of the Lehrbuch der Botanik, 

 by Strasburger, ISToU, Schenck and Schimper. 



The St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences 

 has recently made some changes in the 

 system of publishing papers communicated 

 to it. In September, 1894, it commenced 

 the publication of a monthlj' number, under 

 the title Bulletin de V Academie Imperiale des 

 Sciences, which serves as the organ of the 

 three classes of the Academy. This Btdletin 

 is intended to include the proces-verbaux of 

 the meetings, annual reports of scientific 

 researches, reports on prizes conferred by 

 the Academy, notes on the work of the 



museiims, &c. lu addition to notices of 

 this kind, the Btdletin will contain short 

 scientific papers. The Mcmoires de I'Acad- 

 cmie Imperiale des Sciences will form in future 

 the second means of publication. It will ^ 

 be divided into two independent series, 

 dealing respectively with the physico- 

 mathematical section of the Academy's pa- 

 pers, and the historical and philological sec- 

 tion. The publication of the Melanges, tires du 

 Btdletin, has been discontinued. — Natttre. 



Ajn International Congress on Childhood 

 will be held in Florence in the spring of 

 1895. Among the questions to be discussed 

 are the physical, moral and mental eleva- 

 tion of children, childi-en's hospitals, the 

 care of deaf-mute and blind children up to 

 the time of their admission into an educa- 

 tional institution, care of poor and aban- 

 doned children, reformatories, and vaga- 

 bondage in its relation to childhood. — N. 

 Y. Mediccd, Record. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 

 A. A. A. S. MEETING, 1895. 



At a special meeting of the Council, held 

 on January 26th, it was decided to post- 

 pone the proposed meeting in San Francis- 

 co. An invitation from Spi-ingfield, Mass., 

 to hold the meeting of 1895 in that citj', was 

 accepted. The date of the meeting was 

 fixed as follows : Council meeting, "Wednes- 

 day, August 28th, at noon ; General Ses- 

 sions, Thursday, August 29th, at 10 a. m. 



Special efforts will be made by the offi- 

 cers of the sections to prepare programmes 

 for the sections in advance of the meeting 

 and for this purpose members are requested 

 to send abstracts of their papers, as early 

 as possible, to the Permanent Secretaiy, or 

 to the Secretaries of the Sections. 



F. W Putnam, Permanent Secretary. 

 Salem, Mass., Jan. 30, 1895. 



NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ; SECTION 

 OF ASTRONOMY AND PHY'SICS, FEB. 1. 



Professor "W. Hallock showed a new 



