550 Scientific News. [July, 
— The annual meeting of the Entomological Club of the 
American Association for the Advancement of Science, will 
be held at the Museum of the Boston Society of Natural 
History, corner of Berkley and Boylston streets, Boston, com- 
mencing at 2 P. M., August 24, 1880. It is proposed to send to 
every member of the American Association, and to all others 
who may favor the undersigned with their address for that 
purpose, a circular announcing the special subjects which will 
be presented at the meeting of the Club, and therefore, all en- 
tomologists who desire to read communications at that time, 
are requested to notify one of the undersigned before August Ist. 
This will insure a fuller discussion of the topics presented, and, it 
is hoped, a larger attendance. Samuel Scudder, president, Cam- 
bridge, Massachusetts; B. Pickman Mann, secretary, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts. 
— By the last annual report of the Zodlogical Society of Phil- 
adelphia, we learn that the average number of visitors daily, last 
year was 591. The receipts continue to more than pay expenses, 
and we are glad to learn that the society has received from the 
executors of the will of J. W. Miller the sum of $20,000. 
goodly number of animals were received. A number of boas 
died during the winter of a disease showing a diphtheritic condi- 
tion of the alimentary canal; probably contagious in its nature. 
The number of animals in the garden is 942, of which 392 are 
mammals and 415 birds. 
— Many naturalists and directors of museums may be glad to 
and ethnography in the Pacific islands. Mr. Kubary is now in 
the Caroline islands, where he has been under the exclusive em- 
ploy of Herr Godeffroy. The address is Joh. S. Kubary, 
Mpoma, N. W. Harbor, Ponape, in care of H. B. M. Consul in 
Honolulu. 
— Dr. F. V. Hayden has recently been elected honorary mem- 
ber of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, York, England; the 
Italian Geographical Society, Rome, Italy ; the Scientific Society 
of Styria, Graz, Austria; the Society for the Advancement of Nat- 
ural Science, Marburg, Prussia, and Verein für Erdkünde, Dres- 
den; also corresponding member of the Société des Sciences 
Physiques et Naturelles, Bordeaux, France, and foreign associate 
of the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris. The “Société de To- 
pographie,” of Paris, has also awarded him a medal of the first 
class for his geological and geographical works. 
— The herbarium of Dr. C. C. Parry, the distinguished botanist 
of many government and other expeditions, has been presented 
to the Davenport Academy of Sciences, It contained 15,000 
named species. 
