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are the hartbeests and gnus (genera Buhalis, 

 Damaliscus and Connochcetes) , all belonging 

 to the subfamily Bubalidinse, and residents 

 of Africa and Arabia. Twelve colored 

 plates have been issued, and seven are 

 promised with the next number, which will 

 be devoted to the duikers {Ceplialophus). 

 C. H. M. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Prof. S. Calvin, State Geologist of Iowa, 

 announces that reprints of the photographs 

 accumulated by the survey may be had for 

 12| cents each. A descriptive list of views 

 may be had on application to the State 

 Geologist at Des Moines ; all orders to be 

 made by the numbers of this list. If this 

 practice were generally adopted by our 

 State Surveys, it would be greatly to the ad- 

 vantage of many students and teachers. 



Prof. W. R. ISTewbold, of the University 

 of Pennsylvania, has become one of the as- 

 sociate editors of the American Naturalist. 

 In the current number he gives an account 

 of ' The Present State of Psychology.' 



Dr. "Wirtinger has been made Professor 

 of Mathematics in the University of Inns- 

 bruck. 



Dr. Wilder D. Bancroft, now Instructor 

 in Harvard University, has been appointed 

 Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry 

 in Cornell University. 



Prof. Francis Gotch, now of University 

 College, Liverpool, has been elected to the 

 Waynfiete Chair of Physiology at the Uni- 

 versity of Oxford, vacant by the transfer- 

 rence of Prof. Burdon Saunderson to the 

 Regius Professorship of Medicine. 



James E. Oliver, Professor of Mathemat- 

 ics in Cornell University, died at Ithaca, 

 on March 28th. 



The Duke d'Orleans has presented the 

 Imperial Institute of London with his ex- 

 tensive collection of specimens of natural 

 history, costumes and curiosities. 



Mr. Lester F. Ward writes that he has 

 just received from the family confirmation 

 of the reported death of the Marquis Sa- 

 porta. He died at Aix on January 25th. 



Dr. Nikola Tesla suffered a serious loss 

 in the destruction of his laboratory by fii'e 

 on March 13th. 



General de Masouty, Founder and Di- 

 rector of the Pic du Midi Observatory, died 

 recently at the age of eighty years. 



Dr. Harrison Allen has been elected a 

 member of the Council of the Philadelphia 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, to fill the 

 vacancy caused by the death of John H. 

 Redfield. 



The Joint Commission of the Scientific 

 Societies of Washington has begun to publish 

 a monthly programme, giving the dates of 

 meeting of the various scientific societies 

 of Washington for the ensuing month and 

 a full list of papers to be presented. 



At a meeting of the New York Alumni 

 of the Johns Hopkins University, on March 

 29th, President Gilman made an address 

 on ' Impending Problems in Education.' An 

 address was also made by Professor Butler, 

 of Columbia College. 



A National Exhibition of Industry and 

 Fine Arts in the City of Mexico will be 

 opened on April 2d, and an International 

 Exposition is proposed for Montreal, to be 

 opened on May 4th. 



At the last meeting of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences at Philadelphia, Miss 

 Emma Walter read a paper entitled Does 

 the Delaivare Water Gap Consist of Tioo River 

 Gorges f She adduced evidence to show that 

 the river once flowed through the Gap 

 from the south towards the north ; that this 

 north-flowing river was pre-glacial, and 

 that much the greater part of the erosion is 

 the work of this old river, the remainder 

 being due to the action of the present south- 

 flowing stream. 



