848 Scientific News. [ December, 
“4. (A question only seemingly irrelevant.) If singing in the 
ears has ever happened to you, have any of the fundamental 
intervals, above mentioned, been observed between the minute 
tones? 
a Any information that may occur to you as bearing on these 
subjects?” We refer the matter to our ornithological readers. 
— The Zoologischer Anzeiger, published in Leipzig and edited 
by Prof. J. Victor Carus, proves to be a most useful periodical. 
The editor has two objects in view: besides giving digests of new 
works and articles, to make the literature complete. as possible 
and to have the addresses of working and teaching zoologists, 
zootomists, anatomists and paleontologists, as full and trust- 
worthy as may be. For this purpose he would like to receive 
. the aid of American naturalists, and especially to receive copies 
of our journals and proceedings in exchange for his journal. 
The Anzeiger will, by and by, contain a list of public museums, 
institutes, etc., which are not connected with universities and col- 
leges. As the Journal is published fortnightly, men of science will 
find it the most convenient way of publishing quickly short pre- 
liminary abstracts of new researches of all kinds relating to 
zoology. 
— The New York Academy of Sciences begins its sessions for 
the winter in its new rooms, handsomer and more attractive than 
so previous quarters, The library of the Academy has been 
ved up town into rooms granted for it, in the, new (fire-proof ) 
building of the American Museum of Natural History, where 
it is to have the best care and accommodations and remains sub- 
ject to the control of the Academy. 
— The eleventh annual meeting of the Kansas Academy of 
Science was held at Topeka, on October 8th and gth, with an 
_ attendance larger than in previous years. The number of papers 
presented was also larger than usual. Prof. B. F. Mudge, of 
Manhattan, was elected president, and E. 5 Popenoe, of Topeko, 
secretary, for the ensuing term of one ye 
— Recent ‘arrivals at the Philadelphia FEE Garden: | 
= water snake (7ropidonotus sipedon), New Jer 2 capybaras 
_ (Hydrocherus capybara); 1 douroucouli (4 Pa trivirgatus); 
- I cāpucin (Cebus apella), South America; 2 bonnet KRES 
_ (Macacus radiatus); 2 rhesus monkeys (Macacus erythræus) ; 
vania; I green a bikers (Ardea virescens); 1 golden- ‘crowned thrush 
(Seiurus aurocapillus) Pennsylvania ; 2 cinereous vultures ( Vultur 
cinereus); 2 griffon vult (Gyps fulvus), North Africa; 4 barn 
ls (Strix flammea americana); 2 Angora rabbits; 7 weeper 
cins (Cebus capucinus), South America; 1 little brown bat 
ertilio TEC New Pay: 1 brown Pe (Pelecanus 
