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LK. S. Vol. V. No. 124. 



Dr. Nansen's proposed lecture before the 

 ■Oeographical Society at Rome has been aban- 

 doned because the Society was unable to pay the 

 terms demanded. 



The Board of Estimate and Apportionment 

 ■of New York City have authorized the issue of 

 "bonds to the amount of $500,000, the money to 

 be used for the erection of a further wing for 

 the American Museum of Natural History. 

 Plans for the wing prepared by the architects, 

 Messrs. Kodeberg and See, were submitted and 

 approved. 



The class of 1897 of Yale University has pre- 

 sented to the Peabody Museum a meteorite, 

 weighing 65 lbs., which was found three years 

 since in Kansas. 



A PROPOSITION in the Massachusetts House 

 of Representatives to amend the bill appropri- 

 ating $150,000 for the work of exterminating 

 the gypsy moth, by making the amount $200.- 

 000, was voted down, but the bill itself was 

 ordered to a third reading. 



It is reported that the authorities of the ele- 

 vated railways of New York City have exam- 

 ined Mr. Keely's motor with a view to its in- 

 troduction. It is probable that the nature of 

 motor was not made clear to them and that it 

 will not be used in New York. Scientifically 

 inclined people are not likely to believe that 

 Mr. Keely's motor can make something out of 

 nothing, but this will not be the opinion of 

 those who have invested money in the scheme. 



At the monthly general meeting of the 

 Zoological Society of London, held on April 

 22d, it was reported that the additions to the 

 Society's menagerie during the month of March 

 were 152 in number. Special notice was di- 

 rected to three examples of the Indian pygmy 

 goose (Nettopus Coromandelianus), presented by 

 Mr. Frank Finn. It was stated that many at- 

 tempts had previously been made to introduce 

 this bird into Europe, but without success, and 

 that these were the first specimens which had 

 reached the Society's gardens alive. 



Another great Auk's egg has been sold at 

 auction in London — this time to Mr. G. T. 

 Middlebrook for 280 guineas. 



The appearance of two new serials is noted 



in Natural Science: The Aeronautical Journal, 

 published by the resuscitated Aeronautical So- 

 ciety, and East Asia, a quarterly, which will 

 include the natural history, etc. , of the region. 



Dr. C. Du Bois-Reymond, son of the late 

 Emil Du Bois-Reymond, expects to edit, from the 

 notes of students, the courses of lectures given 

 by Du Bois-Reymond, at the University of Ber- 

 lin, on the Results of Modern Science and Phys- 

 ical Anthropology. 



It gives us regret to announce the death of 

 Martin L. Linell, Aid in the Department of In- 

 sets of the U. S. National Museum for the past 

 nine years. Mr. Linell was 47 years of age, a 

 Swede by birth and a former student in the 

 University at Lund. He came to America in 

 1879, and was at first Curator of the Brooklyn 

 Entomological Society, accepting the position 

 in the National Museum in 1888. He was one 

 of the most learned coleopterists in the country, 

 and his high scientific attainments, as well as his 

 thorough acquaintance with the great collection 

 of insects at Washington, will render it very 

 difficult to fill his place. 



The American Naturalist for May contains a 

 short appreciation of the late Professor Cope, 

 by Dr. Persifor Frazer, who takes pro tern. 

 Cope's place as senior managing editor of the 

 journal, and an article on Cope by Professor J. 

 S. Kingsley, who for many years was associated 

 with Cope in the editorship of the journal. 

 The number also contains six portraits of Cope. 

 Four of these are from photographs taken re- 

 spectively in 1879, 1884, 1887 and 1892. These 

 show an evident gain in force of expression, 

 which appears not to be unusual with men of 

 great achievement. The frontispiece of the 

 number is from an oil painting by Mr. George 

 W. Pettit, in the possession of the American 

 Philosophical Society, and a second full-page 

 plate is from a bust by Mr. Eugene Costello. 



The opening article of the May number of 

 the American Journal of Science is an admirable 

 memoir of Hubert Anson Newton, by Professor 

 J. Willard Gibbs. The frontispiece of the 

 number is a portrait of Professor Newton in 

 his library, taken by a member of his family in 

 the spring of 1894. The appended bibliography 

 contains 69 titles. 



