1891.] Scientific News. 1039 
Implements in the Tide-Water Province, W. H. Holmes. Aboriginal 
Novaculite Quarries in Arkansas, W. H. Holmes. Games of Teton 
Dakota Children, James Owen Dorsey. Geographical Arrangement of 
Prehistoric Objects in the U. S. National Museum, Thos. Wilson. 
Curious Forms of Chipped Stone Implements Found in Italy, Hon- 
duras, and the United States, Thos.. Wilson, Inventions of Antiquity, 
Thos. Wilson. Study of Automatic Motion, Joseph Jastrow. Race 
Survivals and Race Mixture in Great Britain, W. H. Babcock. 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
The Ninth Congress of the American Ornithologists’ Union will 
convene in New York city on Tuesday, November 17th, 1891, 
at eleven o’clock a.m. The meetings will be held at the American 
Museum of Natural History, Central Park (77th Street and Eighth 
Avenue). 
Philip Herbert Carpenter, M. A., F. R.S., died October 23d. 
He was born in London, February 6th, 1852; was educated at Cam- 
bridge, and in 1877 was appointed assistant master at Eton College. 
In 1868 he was a member of the scientific staff of the deep-sea 
exploring expedition of H. M. S. Lightning, and was with H. M. S. . 
Porcupine, in the same capacity, in 1869—70. In 1875 he was 
appointed assistant naturalist on H. M. S. Valorous, which accom- 
panied Sir George Nare’s Arctic expedition to Disco Island. In 1883 
the deceased scientist was awarded the Lyell fund by the Geological 
Society of London, and in 1885 he was elected a fellow of the Royal 
Society. He was the author of a number of valuable works, including 
a “ Report Upon the Comatule Dredged by the United States Survey 
in the Caribbean Sea,” published last year. 
_ At the meeting of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 
on October 2oth, the committee on the Hayden Memorial Geological 
Fund reported that they had decided to award the Hayden medal and 
accompanying fund this year to Professor Edward Drinker Cope, 
in recognition of his researches in the domain of geology and paleon- 
tology. This is the second award of this medal of honor, the first 
having been made to Professor James Hall, the veteran geologist of 
New York, and pioneer in the field of American paleontology. 
Am. Nat.—November.—7, 

