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Wittiam BLACKMORE, Esq., the muyunificent founder of the 
‘*Blackmore Museum,” in his native town of Salisbury, England, 
(which we are authorized by Mr. Squier in saying is the finest 
illustration of that part of “prehistoric” archeology denominated 
the ‘‘Stone-age” in the world) is anxious to obtain all possible in- 
formation regarding the range of the buffalo at the time of the 
settlement of this country. Mr. Blackmore purchased from Dr. 
Davis his portion of the antiquities of the west which formed the 
basis of the first volume of the “Smithsonian Contributions.” 
Any information on the points indicated above, if sent to the care 
of Mr. E. G. Squier, 135 East 35th St., New York, or communi- 
cated to this magazine, will be highly appreciated. 
Prof. Albert N. Prentiss of Cornell University has taken the 
first Walker prize offered by the Boston Society of Natural His- 
tory. The subject was “ The Mode of Natural Distribution of 
Plants over the Surface of the Earth.” 
The veteran Herpetologist and Ichthyologist of America, Dr. 
John E. Holbrook of Charleston, S. C., died at Norfolk of apoplexy 
on Sept. 8th, aged seventy-six years, eight months. Dr. Holbrook’s 
principal publications were the Herpetology of North America, in 
four quarto volumes containing descriptions and colored figures of 
all the North American Reptiles known at the time, and the Ich- 
thyology of South Carolina in similar style. The’ former work 
went through two editions and is to this day the basis of our 
knowledge of the reptiles of this country. Of the latter work only 
one volume was published, as the war prevented its completion by 
the state of South Carolina, though we have certain knowledge 
that the drawings and descriptions of the concluding volume were 
in an advanced state, if not even ready for the press at the break- 
ing out of the war. 
Mr. S. I. Smith, Assistant in the Sheffield Scientific School, has 
been appointed State Entomologist of Connecticut. 
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