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Carl Vogt, Professor of Natural History 

 in the University of Geneva, died in Geneva 

 on May 5th. at the age of seventy-seven 

 years. Vogt made important contributions 

 to physiology, zoology and geology, but be- 

 came most widely known through his work 

 ' On Man ' (1863), written from a material- 

 istic point of view. He was born at Giessen, 

 Julj' 5, 1S17, studied at that place, under 

 Liebig, and at Berne, worked with Agassiz 

 and was made professor at Giessen. After 

 taking a prominent j)art in the Frankfort 

 Parliament of IS-tS, he considered it prudent 

 to retire to Switzerland, and from 1852 was 

 professor in the University of Geneva. 



Miss Crane, through her excellent re- 

 views and sj'nopses of current brachiopod 

 literature, certainly keeps the public well 

 informed of the progi-ess made in this de- 

 partment, and from time to time she ventures 

 to make contributions of her own to the 

 knowledge of the class. Her latest paper, 

 The Evolution of the Brachiopoda (Geolog- 

 ical Magazine, February and March, 1895), 

 is a combination of the results and con- 

 clusions reached in the most recent invest- 

 igations by various authorities, together 

 with a general application of the facts to 

 a scheme of phylogeny. The profound 

 changes which have been made of late 

 in the classification of the Brachiopoda 

 through the application of modern principles 

 of evolution are gi-aphically stated: — "The 

 Brachiopoda now seem to justify the pre- 

 science of Darwin. Formerly regarded as 

 one of the most obstinate difficulties in the 

 way of the demonstration of the evolution 

 of the invertebrate life on earth, they now 

 bid fair to become a remarkable illustration 

 in favor of it." 



The building containing the entomolog- 

 ical department of the Amherst State Col- 

 lege is being enlarged so that the capacity 

 of the laboratories will be doubled. 



Money has been given to defray the ex- 



penses of transporting to Mount Hamilton 

 and erecting there the great reflecting tele- 

 scope presented to the Lick Observatory by 

 Mr. Edward Crossley, of England. A re- 

 flecting telescope was included in the plans 

 for the Lick Observatorj- made 21 years 

 ago, and before Mr. Crossley presented the 

 telescope to the observatory Professor Hol- 

 den had been in correspondence with him, 

 with a view to purchasing it. It is hoped 

 that the telescope will be ready for use be- 

 fore the close of the current year. 



Through a gift of W. C. McDonald, Mc- 

 Gill Univei"sity has secured 35 acres of land 

 for botanical gardens and an observatory. 



The biU consolidating the Astor, Tilden 

 and Lennox libraries has been approved by 

 Gov. Morton. The present site of the Len- 

 nox library will probably be adopted. 



Dr. Gustav Hirschfeld, Professor of 

 Classical Archeology in the University of 

 Konigsberg, died on April 20th. 



A JOINT meeting of the Scientific Societies 

 of Washington, was held on May 10th, on 

 the occasion of the delivery of the annual 

 address of the President of the National 

 Geographic Societj', the Hon. Gardiner G. 

 Hubbard. The subject of the address was 

 ' Russia.' 



Dr. Ferdinand Braun, of Tiibingen, has 

 been appointed Professor of Pliysics in the 

 L'niversitj' of Strasburg, succeeding Pro- 

 fessor Kohlrausch. 



Dr. W. S. Hall has accepted the Davis 

 Professorship of Physiologj- in the North- 

 western L'niversity Medical School, of 

 Chicago. 



The trustees of the University of Penn- 

 sylvania have accepted with regret the re- 

 signation of Professor Harrison Allen from 

 the Professorship of Comparative Anatomy 

 and Zoiilogj-. 



According to the Amei-kan Geologist, Mr. 

 Warren Uphani, recently of the Minnesota 



