694 Scientific News. [August, 



insects at Florissante in order to perfect his forthcoming work on 

 fossil insects for one of Professor Hayden's final reports. Professor 

 E. S. Morse is now in Japan, en route for China, India and Europe, 

 to return the coming winter. Professor R. E. Call is making an 

 extended collecting trip in the Southern States for our rarer mol- 

 lusks ; when last heard from he was at Rome, Ga. Mr. W. A. 

 Stearns has chartered a vessel and takes a party to the Labrador 

 coast for scientific observations. 



— Nature has been publishing a series of articles by different 

 writers, the first, on Darwin as a geologist, by Professor A. Gei- 

 kie ; others on his zoological and psychological works, by Mr. 

 Romanes, while his contributions to botany will be discussed by 

 Mr. Thistleton Dyer. A biography of the great naturalist is to 

 be prepared by his son, Mr. Francis Darwin, who desires the loan 

 of his letters, to be copied and returned. A Darwin fund also is 

 to be raised, the proceeds of which will be devoted to the ad- 

 vancement of biological science. 



— ■ The tenth annual report of the Zoological Society of 

 Philadelphia, shows that this young society is in a flourishing 

 condition. 34,949 more people visited the garden the past year 

 than the preceding; the number of members is 815, and the gate^ 

 receipts for the year was $243,427. The menagerie contains 297' 

 mammals, 343 birds, and 37 reptiles and batrachians. A bathing 

 pond for the elephants, and an aviary are among the new improve- 

 ments. The number of animals which breed in confinement is 

 increasing. 



— George W. Hawes, curator of mineralogy, etc., of the Na- 

 tional Museum in Washington, died at Colorado Springs in June 

 last, in the 33d year of his age. Dr. Hawes was born in Marion, 

 Ind., of New England parentage, and was educated at Yale Col- 

 lege, also studying abroad and receiving the degree of doctor in 

 philosophy from the University at Bonn. He was among the 

 most enthusiastic of our lithological students, and his untimely 

 death will be a severe loss to American science. 



— Measurements of the winter movement of a large glacier in 

 North Greenland (the Fjord of Jacobshavn), have been recently 

 made by Herr Hammer, and the summer observations of Herr 

 Helland on the same glacier in 1875 can be compared with them. 

 The velocity is much the same, apparently, in summer and in 

 winter; about fifty feet in twenty-four hours may be taken to 

 represent the rate in the middle of the glacier, where it is 



— At a meeting of the Appalachian Mountain Club, held June 

 14, i8S2,in Boston, a paper by Mr. John Tatlock;, Jr., of Williams- 

 town, entitled " Variation of baromcti c measun m< nts of altitude 

 with the season," and one by Professor J. W. Checkering, o\ 



Washington. ..-nti'tlcd " Ro.m mountain notes,'" were read. 



