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spring. It is to be the official organ of the " Agassiz Associa- 

 tion " and will be edited by Edward F. Bigelow, who for many- 

 years has had charge of the " Nature and Science " department 

 of " The St. Nicholas Magazine." 



Mr. William Kent, of Chicago, 111., and Kentfield, Cal., has 

 presented a tract of 295 acres of magnificent sequoias in Red- 

 wood Canyon, near San Francisco, to the government. The 

 tract lies on the southern slope of Mount Tamalpais, six miles 

 from San Francisco, and is one of the kw tracts of redwood 

 forest in its natural state in all California. 



The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, has received 

 through the University of Chicago, the complete herbarium of 

 that institution, which was inaugurated and augmented by Pro- 

 fessor J, M. Coulter during the past twenty-five or more years 

 of his active botanical researches. The herbarium contains 

 about 50,000 sheets, among which are a large number of types, 

 co-types and specially studied species. 



At a meeting of the Council of the New York Academy of 

 Sciences held on March 2, the president was authorized to appoint 

 a committee of arrangements for the Academy's celebration of 

 the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin 

 and the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of his " Origin of 

 Species." This committee has been constituted as follows : 

 Messrs. Hovey (chairman), Beebe, Bristol, Britton, Bumpus, 

 Cattell, Chapman, Crampton, Dean, Howe, Kemp, Osborn, 

 Rusby, Stevenson, Wheeler, and President Cox, ex officio. 



Austin Craig Apgar, of the N. J. State Normal School, died 

 March 3 of apoplexy. Professor Apgar was born in 1838 and 

 in 1862 was graduated from the N. J. State Normal School, 

 where he afterward taught for more than forty years. He 

 studied in the summer schools of Louis and Alexander Agassiz 

 and was himself widely known as a summer school and institute 

 instructor. His best known books are " Birds of the United 

 States" and "Trees of the Northern United States"; he left 

 unfinished a large and valuable book on American trees. Pro- 

 fessor Apgar was one of the earliest advocates of field and labo- 

 ratory work and never lost the naturalist's enthusiasm. 



