1148 The American Naturalist. [December, 1891.] 
Prof. Frederick Starr has accepted the chair of ethnology and arche- 
ology i in the Rockefeller University of Chicago. 
Prof. C. H. Gilbert is Professor of Vertebrate Biology in the 
Leland Stanford University of California. 
The December number of the Worth American Review will contain 
a symposium on The Quorum in European Legislatures, apropos of the 
probable renewal of the Speakership controversy on the assembling of 
Congress, December 7. This contribution will include statements as 
to European usages, in reference to the point at issue, by M. Louis 
Ruchonnet, President of the Swiss Confederation ; Herr Von Levet- 
zow, President of the German Reichstag; M. Henri Brisson, ex-Presi- 
dent of the Chamber of Deputies; M. Jules Meline, ex-Minister of 
Agriculture ; M. Sofus Hogsbro, President of the Danish Folkething ; 
Sig. Chiavassa of the Italian Senate, and others. The same number 
will also contain The Three Philanthropists, by Colonel R. G. Inger- 
oll; The Benefits of War, by Admiral Luce; A Great Statistical In- 
vestigation, by Carroll D. Wright, and Railway Rates, by General 
Horace Porter. Further contributions will appear in the same number 
from Signor Crispi, ex-Prime Minister of Italy ; the Dean of St. Paul’s 
Cathedral, London; T. V.-Powderly, and Prof. James pie author 
of The American Commonwealth. 



