NEWS. 
THE Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia receives by the 
will of the late Charles E. Smith one-sixth of his estate, which is 
valued at about $500,000. His collections and botanical library also 
go to the academy. 
Dr. James M. Safford, the state geologist of Tennessee and profes- 
sor in Vanderbilt University, retires at the end of the present year. 
The University of the State of Missouri is to send an Entomo- 
logical Expedition into southern Mexico this summer. It will be in 
charge of Professor J. M. Stedman, head of the entomological depart- 
ment, and will have for its object the making of a biological, largely 
entomological, survey of the region from Vera Cruz, on the Gulf, 
which is in perpetual tropics, to the top of the volcano Popocatepetl, 
which is far above the perpetual snow line, and down to Acapulco 
on the Pacific. This will give all the temperature variations from 
perpetual tropics to perpetual snow, and will allow of the study of 
life zones under. conditions not to be found elsewhere in North 
America. The collection will become the property of the university, 
which is to furnish half the expenses, the other half to be borne by 
Professor Stedman. 
Appointments: Dr. Charles W. Greene, professor of physiology in 
the University of Missouri. — Mr. S. Harbert Hamilton, assistant in 
the museum of geology and archeology at Princeton University. — 
Dr. Franz Kossmat, docent in geology in the University of Vienna. 
— Dr. Paul Ehrenreich, docent in ethnology in the University of 
Berlin. — Stuart Weller, instructor in paleontology in the University 
of Chicago. — Alfred L. Kroeber, curator of anthropology in the 
California Academy of Sciences. — Dr. A. L. Treadwell, professor of 
zoology in Vassar College. d H. Yapp, assistant curator of the 
herbarium in the University of Cambridge. 
DEarHs. — Dr. George Viner Ellis, for many years professor of 
anatomy in University College, London. — Dr. Bernhart Noldeke, 
assistant in zoólogy in the University of Strassburg.— Lieutenant-Gen- 
eral A. H. Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers, the well-known English ethnologist, 
in London, May 4, aged 73. — George Highfield Morton, an English 
geologist, aged 75. 
613 
