198 Scientific News. [ March, 
Koren and Dr. Danielssen, on the following subjects: Description 
of some new Norwegian Ccelenterates, Contributions to the Natu- 
ral History of the Pennatulide living on the Norwegian coast; 
sony greg of new Bryozoa; oattenvens to the Natural His- 
of the Norwegian Gephyr A new species of the genus ` 
Peseta: Some of the plates are ord and many anatomical 
details are given, making this part worthy of its distinguished pre- 
decessors. 
Peterman, of Gotha, in his “ Geographical Notes” for 
Nevers calls Henry M. Stanley “the Bismarck of African ex- 
ploration.” As Bismarck united the various German principali- 
ties into one great empire, so Stanley, taking all previous African 
discoveries, scattered as they were and mix ed up with conjectures, 
with one masterly stroke artes all these disyecta membra, wove 
the odds and ends of previous researches and efforts for thous- 
ands of years into one compact, valuable web.” Thus he thinks 
that Stanley’s work is unparalleled in the whole history of dis- 
covery in the world; and he proceeds to sustain the opinion by 
showing how Stanley transcended all that was previously known 
respecting the Congo river. This is lofty praise, but it comes 
rom one whose competency to give it has never been questioned. 
— Dr. Jared P. Kirtland, who died at East Rockport, Ohio, was 
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a native of Wallingford, Ct., and was well known in this country 
for his attainments in natural history, and especially discoveries 
in conchology and ichthyology. In 1848 he was given charge 
of the natural history department in the survey of Ohio, and his 
works on the subject were published in Boston and elsewhere in 
the East. Important degrees were bestowed upon him by various 
Eastern and Western colleges, and honors were given by several 
societies for valuable scientific services. He was 84 years old at 
the time of his death. 
— A letter just received from Prof. J. Schoetter, Secretary Gen- 
eral of the “Congrès International des Américanistes,” states 
that one volume of the proceedings of the interesting and suc- 
cessful meeting, held at Luxembourg on the 10-13 of September, 
1877, would be issued about the first week of December. The 
second about the last of February, 1878. The next session will 
be feld at Brussels in ath instead of in this country, as was at 
one time proposed.—Z. A. Barber. 
_— The American Museum of Natural Ba in Manhattan 
Square, at Seventy-seventh street and Eighth avenue, was opened 
to the public December 22d, by President Hayes. ak is a high, a . 
red brick building, with modified English-Gothic win 
An. eloquent address was delivered by President Elliott, of 
Head College, in which he is reported to have s 
as “We are assembled here to view with gratitude ‘the henchceet ; 
