NEWS. 
Dr. ARTHUR HO Lick, of New York, is to complete the monograph, 
The Later Extinct Floras of the United States, \eft unfinished at the 
death of Professor Newberry. The plates were printed some time 
ago, and include the cretaceous and tertiary floras of the west. 
Among the scientific expeditions of the present summer we note 
that of Professor J. C. Branner to study the coral reef of Brazil; two 
sent out by the American Museum (New York) to collect fossils in 
our western states; Dr. J. L. Wortman visits Wyoming to collect 
fossils for the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburg; Mr. Harrington and 
Mr. Sumner revisit Egypt in the hopes of obtaining the embryology 
of Polypterus; Professor W. A. Setchell goes with a party of botanists 
to Alaska to study the flora; the University of New Mexico will study 
the geology, botany, zodlogy, and ethnology of that territory; the 
Union Pacific Railroad invites 300 geologists to conduct geological 
investigations in the neighborhood of their lines; Mr. Alexander 
Agassiz, with a party of assistants, will spend several months in the 
study of the deep seas and the coral reefs of the South seas, the 
U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross being placed in his 
charge; Professor Libbey goes with a party from the University of 
Princeton to Greenland and will conduct deep-sea dredgings in the 
Arctic seas ; an expedition from the University of Chicago to explore 
the ruins in the vicinity of Merida, Yucatan; Professor Charles E. 
Bessey studies the flora of western Nebraska; Professor John Macoun 
investigates the flora of Sable Island; Dr. John N. Rose goes to Mexico 
to investigate several points in economic botany; Drs. Trelease, 
Fernow, Coville, and Saunders visit Alaska under the invitation of 
Mr. E. H.Harriman; Dr. Luigi Buscaloni, of Turin, goes on a botan- 
ical expedition to the lower Amazon region; Alexis A. B. Birula, of St. 
Petersburg, goes as zoologist with the Russian expedition which is to 
measure an arc of a meridian on the island of Spitzbergen. 
Dr. Anton Dohrn, of Naples, and Dr. Melchior Treub, of Buiten- 
zorg, Java, have been elected foreign members of the Royal Society. 
The statue to Darwin in the museum of the University of Oxford 
was unveiled on June 14, the ceremony being preceded by an 
address by Sir Joseph Hooker. 
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