114 The American Naturalist.  - [January, 
The British Association for the Advancement of Science will meet 
at Newcastle-on-Tyne, September 11-19, 1889. Prof. Flower is the 
general president, and the sections will have the following chairmen : 
Geology, Prof. James Geikie; biology, Prof. J. S. Burdon-Sanderson ; 
geography, Colonel de Winton ; anthropology, Sir W. Turner. 
It is proposed to hold a Botanical Congress in Paris in the second 
half of August. The secretary of the committee of organization is 
M. P. Maury, 84 Rue de Grenelle, Paris. Among the subjects to be 
made prominent in the Congress is the Geographical Distribution of 
Plants. 
Prof. Kinkenberg, of Jena, died in March. He was well-known for 
his researches on the physiology of the invertebrata. 
Dr. James Beard, who has paid special attention to the development 
of the fish-like vertebrates, is to be associated with the Scottish Fishing 
Board. 
Mr. J. Reynolds Vaizey, a young English botanist, whose publica- 
tions have been in the line of the morphology of mosses, died recently 
at Cambridge, England, from injuries received from falling into a fire 
while in an epileptic fit. 
Flora, the well-known German botanical journal, will hereafter be 
published at Marburg, under the editorship of Prof. Karl Goebel. 
Mr. Arthur E. Shipley has been appointed teacher of comparative 
anatomy for medical purposes in the University of Cambridge. 
Dr. Heinrich Ernst Karl von Dechen, the well-known geologist, 
died at Borm, Germany, February 15th, 1889, aged 89 years. 
- The Rev. John G. Wood, the popular English author on natural 
history, died at Coventry, England, March 3d, 1889, in his sixty-second 
year. 
The address of B. F. Lowne, as president of the Queckett Micro- 
scopical Club, is given in the Journal of the Club for April. It deals 
with the history of the morphology of insects. 
Wassili Mkolaewitsch Ulianin, the well-known embryologist and 
professor of comparative anatomy and embryology in Warsaw, died 
February 5th, 1889, in his forty-ninth year. 
The Legislature of Georgia has recently re-established the Geologi- 
cal Survey of the State. Prof. J. W. Spencer, of the State University, 
has been duly appointed to take charge of the work. Two assistants 
are authorized, besides the chemist and other specialists. Georgia has 
not been as derelict in its survey as appears, for in the forties a survey 
was organized. Again from 1876 to 1879, the survey was in progress, 
but the results have never been published. So this is the third survey- 

