80 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



EDITORIAL GLEANINGS. 



We regret to read in the ' Athenasum ' that " an eminent man of 

 science has passed away in Emil Selenka, titular Professor of Zoology 

 and Comparative Anatomy at Munich since 1896, when he resigned 

 his professorship at Erlangen. Prof. Selenka, who was born at 

 Brunswick in 1842, devoted his attention chiefly to the Echinoder- 

 mata and vertebrate animals. He twice undertook a journey to the 

 Sunda Islands and Java to study the anthropoid Apes. His most im- 

 portant works are ' Zoologische Studien ' and ' Studien liber die Ent 

 wicklungsgeschichte der Tiere.' " 



We have received from Oxford the ' Thirteenth Annual Eeport of 

 the Delegates of the University Musenm (for 1900).' Anthropology is 

 well represented at Oxford. The late Prof. Rolleston upheld the 

 science in his day, and Dr. E. B. Tylor is the present Keeper of the 

 Museum, which contains the Pitt-Rivers collection. Among the many 

 donations to this grand collection, we read : — "A special, if melan- 

 choly and pathetic, interest attaches to the collection of West African 

 objects formed by the late Miss Mary Kingsley, through whose un- 

 timely death the Museum has lost a sincere friend. It was the wish 

 of this gifted and courageous traveller that her West African speci- 

 mens should eventually come to Oxford, and her brother, Mr. Charles 

 G. Kingsley, to whom the specimens were bequeathed in the first 

 instance, most kindly transferred them at once to the Museum. 

 Amongst them will be noticed several specimens of the now extinct 

 artistic bronze-work of Benin, which has created so much stir of recent 

 years, since the punitive expedition first brought these forgotten 

 treasures to light ; also a fetish figure, which is probably the finest of 

 its kind in any Museum." The Report of the "Hope Professor of 

 Zoology" is restricted to entomological acquisitions, of which a very 

 large number are now being acquired and arranged under his direction. 



Most British naturalists feel an interest in the now much restricted 

 area in which Papitio machaon is found in England. Mr. C. W. Dale 

 has contributed an article to the last issue of the ' Entomologist's 

 Monthly Magazine,' entitled " Historical Notes on Papilio machaon in 

 England," which supplies a very useful and timely information on the 

 subject. 



