Verhiiltnissen." The essay must reach the publi 

 Leopold Voss in Hamburg by the beginning of Decen 

 judges this year are Profs. Klebs and Hover. 



Mr. Godefroy Lunel died in Geneva, Nov. 17, 1 8JM 

 director of the Natural History Mu<eum there has he. 



nomination of Dr. .Maurice Bedot. 



Prof. H. S. Williams of Cornell, has been elected professor of geol- 

 ogy at Yale University, to take the place of the Veteran Jan,<- I >. 

 Dana. Prof. Dana still retains his connection with the Iniv, rsitv 

 and will do some lecturing, but advancing years do not allow htm to 

 devote himself as before to class work. 



Mr. W. M. Goldthwaite of New York City has started a 

 zine entitled " Minerals " the scope of which is indicated by the name. 



A Correction. — The article entitled "Abnormal Duplication of 

 the Urosonic in Rana catesbiaaa " in this journal for August 1891, 

 should have been credited to Wm. L. Sherwood, 199 West 134th St., 

 New York City. 



The Rev. C. J. Ball, M. A., continues to advance arguments in rapport 

 of the identity of the ancient Accadian ideograms with early Chinese 

 signs, ina series of interesting papers read before the Society <d" Biidieal 

 Archeology, and printed in the Proceedings of the Society. The Acca- 

 ianswereth. : Assyria and Bal.ylonia prior to thed 



incursion of the Semitic race. By some writers they are credited with 

 the invention of that cuneiform or arrow-headed and wedge-shaped 

 script, from which M. De Lacouperie maintains the early Ciiine.-e 

 characters were derived, being cuneiform merely transferred from left 

 to top, sometimes from an upright to a horizontal position. 



Mr. Stewart Culin, ot Philadelphia, the author of some able papers 

 on "The Secret Societies of the Chinese in America;' and -'Chinese 

 Games witl Diet has ust issued mot * _-re. aoh ritten memoir, 

 " On the Gambling Games of the Chinese in America." It appears 

 in the fourth number of the first volume of the Series in Philology, 

 Literature, and Archeology of the publications of the University Press 



