254 Scientific News. [ April, 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
— The annual report of the trustees of the Museum of Comparative 
Zoölogy contains plans of the museum building, with a view of the wing, 
now partly built, together with its proposed addition and the corner- 
piece joining it to the main building. The curator, Mr. Alexander 
Agassiz, seems to discourage the accumulation of great stores of alcoholic 
specimens, suggesting that they should be restricted to a minimum, and 
limited, as far as possible, to those classes where no other mode of pres- 
ervation is practicable; and he thinks “the time has come when large 
collections must naturally be supplemented by zodlogical stations. 
These, when once established at properly selected localities, will enable 
museums to dispense with much that is now exceedingly costly.” By 
the success of the Agassiz Memorial Fund, the authorities will be en- 
abled, as soon as the contemplated additions to the museum are erected, 
to carry out the principal ideas of Professor Agassiz for the arrangement 
ofa museum, This fund is stated to amount to $310,673.99. 
— A new marine Fucoid from the Water Lime Group, at Buffalo. 
N. Y., has been noticed by Messrs. Grote and Pitt, under the name of 
Buthotrephis Lesquereuxit. The specimen is one of the best preserved 
of the kind yet discovered. No remains of sea-weeds appear to have 
been known hitherto from the Water Lime Group of the Silurian for- 
mation. 
— The third volume of the new edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, 
just published, contains articles on the Atlantic and Baltic, by Dr. W. 
B. Carpenter, and on Biology, by Professor Huxley and W. T. F. Dyer. 
— The Progress of Darwinism is an annual issued in Germany, giv- 
ing the annual record of evolution literature, as part of a series of other 
reports on the progress of geology, meteorology, ete. 
— Among the recent books of travel published by E. H. Mayer, 
Cologne and Leipzig, are the three following, by Robert von Schlagin- 
tweit: Die Prairien des amerikanischen Westens (The Prairies of 
Western America) ; Die Pacific-Eisenbahn in Nordamerika (The Pacific 
Railroad of North America) ; and Die Mormonen, oder die Heiligen vom 
jüngsten Tage (The Mormons, or Latter-Day Saints). 
— A summer school of science and physical culture on a rather novel 
plan is projected by Prof. D. S. Jordan, who proposes to take a class of 
twenty on a march from Indianapolis to the upper waters of the Tennes- 
see, thence by boats down the French Broad and Tennessee, to Chat 
tanooga, where the school will be closed. 
— A memoir of the late I. A. Lapham, LL. D., who suggested the U. 
S. Weather Signal System, has been prepared by Mr. S. S. Sherman. 
— Élisée Reclus is editing Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la Terre 
et les Hommes, of which six livraisons had appeared in Paris up t° 
November last. 
