16 The Humming Bird. 



Mr. Sell, the London advertising agent, has applied for space 

 to exhibit specimens of all the leading newspapers of the world 

 which have been printed during the last two centuries. 



The Exposition Committee on Electricity has decided that 

 the names of the following electricians shall appear over the 

 entrances of the Electricity Building : Franklin, Galvani, 

 Ampère, Faraday, Sturgeon, Ohm, Morse, Siemens, Davy, 

 Volta, Henry, Oersted, Coulomb, Ronald, Page, Weber, 

 Gilbert, Davenport, Soemmering, Don Silva, Arago, Daniell, 

 Jacobi, Wheatstone, Gauss, Vail, Bain, De la Rive, Joule, 

 Saussure, Cooke, Varley, Steinheil, Guericke, La Place, 

 Channing, Priestly, Maxwell, Coxe, Theles, Cavendish. It was 

 concluded best not to honour thus any electricians who are now 

 living. 



Mr. Takahira, Japanese Consul-General in New York, who 

 was specially commissioned by the Mikado to look into 

 Exposition matters, has made a formal application to 

 Director-General Davis, for 124,100 square feet in the several 

 buildings on the Midway Plaisance, as follows : For an official 

 Japanese building, 40,000 square feet ; in the Manufacturer's 

 building, 35,000; Agricultural building, 4,000; Fine Arts, 

 2,000; Mines and Mining, 750; Forestry, 350; Bazaars, 

 42,000. Mr. Takahira was formerly secretary of the Japanese 

 legation at Washington and speaks English fluently. He says 

 the Japanese are greatly interested in the Exposition and will 

 soon make a very large appropriation for participation. 



Books Received. 



The Antigua Observer; The Kansas City Scientist ; The 

 Ornithologist and Botanist, Binghamton, New York ; Revista 

 italifina di scienze naturali e Bollettino del Naturalisla, Siena ; 

 Pearsorfs Weekly, London. In this last journal, one column 

 is exclusively devoted to Natural History, Notes and Queries. 

 In number 75, ending December 26, 1891, there are several 

 interesting articles on Natural History, A curious rat-catcher, 

 Fish from Volcanoes, etc. 



Index Generum Avium. A list of the genera and subgenera 

 of birds, by F. H. Waterhouse, Librarian to the Zoological 

 Society of London, 1889. 



This alphabetical list of about 7,000 generical names 

 employed by various authors, with references to places and 

 dates of their publication, is quite indispensable to Ornith- 

 ologists. It will assist greatly the labours of working Scientists, 

 and I congratulate heartily Mr. F. H. Waterhouse for the com- 

 pilation of such a useful book. 



The Editor. 



