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morialists offer various reasons why this recom- 

 mendation ought not to be sanctioned. Among 

 other things they recall the fact that at the 

 closing ceremony of the Fisheries Exhibition of 

 1883 the Prince of Wales said : "I think our 

 duty towards the supporters of the exhibition 

 will not be discharged until we have done 

 something towards the promotion of that 

 application of science to practice from which 

 the fishing industry, like all other industries, 

 cau alone look for improvements." The 

 Pi'ince proposed the formation of a society 

 having for its objects the collection of statistics 

 and other information relative to fisheries, the 

 diflfusion among the fishing population of a 

 knowledge of all improvements in the methods 

 and appliances of their calling, the discussion 

 of questions bearing upon fishing interests, and 

 the elucidation of those problems of natural 

 history which bear upon the subject. To extend 

 the usefulness of the museum on these lines, 

 and also on lines suggested by Professor Huxley, 

 the cooperation of the Board of Trade appears 

 to the memorialists to be essential. They sug- 

 gest various directions in which such coopera- 

 tion could be usefully afforded by inspectors of 

 fisheries and others, and they submit that to 

 disperse or neglect the museum would be a 

 retrograde step unworthy of a great maritime 

 country, a breach of an engagement of the 

 Government, and an injustice to the memory of 

 an able public servant. They ask that the mu- 

 seum shall be maintained and exhibited at 

 South Kensington permanently and in a proper 

 and efficient manner in accordance with the 

 terms of the bequest accepted by the Depart- 

 ment of Science and Art, and that such steps 

 may be taken, in accordance with the sugges- 

 tions of the Prince of Wales, as may be deemed 

 expedient for securing its permanent usefulness 

 in the interests of the river and sea fisheries of 

 the United Kingdom. The memorial is signed 

 by the Dukes of Richmond, Bedford, Nor- 

 thumberland, Sutherland, Westminster, and 

 Abercorn, the Marquises of Tweeddale, Bute, 

 Dufferin, Worcester, and Granby, the Earls of 

 Home, Stamford, Sandwich, Jersey, Ports- 

 mouth, Radnor, Kimberley, and March, Lord 

 George Hamilton, Viscount Powerscourt, Vis- 

 count Folkestone, Lords Massy, Chelmsford, 



Tweedmouth, and St. Levan, Lord Justice A. 

 L. Smith, Sir William Harcourt, Sir Edward 

 Birkbeck, together with representatives of 

 the Fishmongers' Company, of various fishery 

 boards and angling societies, inspectors of fish- 

 eries, and many others. 



VNIVEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



INSTRUCTION IN ARCHiEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY 

 IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



Dr. Daniel G. Brinton, for thirteen years 

 Professor of American Archaeology and Lang- 

 uages in the University of Pennsylvania, died 

 July 30, 1899. His death was more than a 

 great loss to the University — it was in a sense 

 an irreparable loss. He had long been recog- 

 nized as foremost among the students of the 

 aboriginal languages of North America, and in. 

 that branch of research no one could be found 

 to take his place. Dr. Brinton himself, how- 

 ever, shortly before his death, took steps 

 towards ensuring in the University the perma- 

 nence of the work to which he had devoted 

 himself. He presented to the institution his 

 library of works relating to the aboriginal 

 languages of North America, comprising about 

 3000 volumes and embracing a large number 

 of unpublished manuscripts as well as nearly all 

 the printed material now extant. He had also 

 recommended the appointment of his friend and 

 co-worker, Mr. Stewart Culin, as Lecturer in 

 Ethnology and American Archaeology, and 

 shortly after his death Mr. Culin was named 

 for that position by the authorities of the Grad- 

 uate School and was appointed by the Board 

 of Trustees. 



Mr. Culin has long been connected with the 

 Museums of the University, and is now the 

 curator of the Section of Asia, and General 

 Ethnology. He is the author of between twenty 

 and thirty published papers and monographs, 

 and is best known by his work on Games. He 

 was the first to show definitely that the games 

 of all civilized races are descended from certain 

 divinatory practices, many of which still exist 

 among primitive peoples with their original 

 significance unobscured. 



During the year 1900-1901 Mr. Culin will 

 offer courses upon the outlines of American 



