700 Setentific News. [ November, 
“The Atlantic. An Account of the General Results of the Exploring 
Expedition of H. M. S. Challenger.” By Sir Wyville Thompson, F. R. 
S., LL. D., Director of the Scientific Staff of the Expedition. Two 
other volumes containing the Voyages of the Challenger in the Pacific 
and South seas will follow. 
— Prof. C. F. Hartt, chief of the Imperial Geological Survey of Bra- 
zil, was at last accounts about sending a party to make a thorough ex- 
ploration of the Amazonian region in order to connect the work with his 
more southerly investigations. Mr. O. A. Derby will be a prominent 
member of this northern division of the survey. At last accounts Pro- 
fessor Hartt was engaged in a careful study of the interior of Brazil. 
— In the course of a pleasant speech by Professor Huxley on being 
introduced to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 
he said, “It is popularly said abroad that you have no antiquities in 
America. If you talk about the trumpery of three or four thousand 
years of history, it is true. But, in the large sense, as referring to times 
before man made his momentary appearance, America is the place to 
study the antiquities of the globe. The reality of the enormous amount 
of material here has far surpassed my anticipation. I have studied the 
collection gathered by Professor Marsh, at New Haven. There is none 
like it in Europe, not only in extent of time covered, but by reason of 
its bearing on the problem of evolution. Whereas, before this collection 
was made, evolution was a matter of speculative reasoning, it is now a 
matter of fact and history, as much as the monuments of Egypt. In 
that collection are the facts of the succession of forms and the history of 
their evolution. All that now remains to be asked is how ; and that is & 
subordinate question.” 
— Mr. A. H. Curtiss, who was employed by the Agricultural Depart- 
ment to collect specimens of the trees of the Southern States for the 
Centennial Exposition, proposes to commence a systematic distribution of 
Southern plants, and hopes to receive sufficient aid from herbalists to 
enable him to travel for a number of years for the purpose of making 
the sets as complete as possible. Commencing with large collections 
made in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and other States, he intends 
to issue three hundred species each winter, keeping an exact record of 
all specimens sent out, so that those lacking fruit, flowers, etc., may be 
completed in future years (without extra charge). ‘The price per is 
of three hundred species will be $25, charges for transportation prepaid 
by mail or by express to New York. Address A. H. Curtiss, Jackson- 
ville, Florida. 
— Mr. Edward Newman, of London, the well-known entomologist 
died June 12th at the age of seventy-five. He was editor, at the ume 
of his death, of the Zodlogist and Entomologist, and the author of several 
popular works on British butterflies and moths. 
— A resolution has been introduced into Congress, according to Hor- 
