764 Scientific News. [Sept., 1882. 



large octavo volumes ; it is lavishly illustrated, and derives addi- 

 tional value from an extensive glossary, bibliography and index. 



SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 



— Professor H. W. Parker, of the Iowa College, Grinnell, la., has 

 issued a circular which we are sure will appeal to the generosity 

 of every naturalist and museum in the country, who, we hope, 

 will send duplicates to restore the ill-fated collections of that col- 

 lege. It will be remembered that by the tornado of June 17th. 

 the college buildings were demolished and with them the mu- 

 seum. Professor Parker, the curator, is now in the East collect- 

 ing specimens and money to restore the collections, and it is 

 hoped that there will be a generous response. The department 

 has earned a claim to help. Without a fund, and mostly by the 

 labors of the curator, the college had accumulated one of the 

 best collections in the West. 



— A committee, of which Professor Asa Gray is chairman and 

 Alexander Agassiz is treasurer, has been requested by the En- 

 glish executive committee of the Darwin Memorial to join them 

 in obtaining subscriptions from those in America who may wish 

 to join in this tribute to the memory of Darwin. The form 

 which the memorial is to take has not yet been decided ; it will 

 probably include an endowment for a scholarship to carry on bio- 

 logical research. 



Subscriptions may be sent to Alexander Agassiz, Cambridge, 

 Mass., who will acknowledge the same and forward them to the 

 treasurer of the English executive committee of the Darwin 

 Memorial. 



— Mr. S. A. Forbes, of Normal, 111., the founder of the Illinois 

 State Laboratory of Natural History, and who has added so 

 much to our knowledge of the food and habits of our birds and 

 fishes, has been appointed State Entomologist in place of Profes- 

 sor Cyrus Thomas, resigned. The appointment is a most fitting one. 



— The number of fellows of the Zoological Society, of London, 

 is 3213. The total receipts for 1881 amounted to £25,810, 

 while the number of visitors in 1881 were 648,604, and the num- 

 ber of animals were 2294. 



— The Hon. George P. Marsh, well known to many of our 

 readers as the author of " Man and Nature," and of a govern- 

 ment report on the camel, died in Italy, July 24th. He was born 

 in Vermont in 1801. 



— Gen. G. K. Warren, U. S. A. Engineer Corps, who died at 

 Newport, Aug. 8th, was not only a distinguished general, but, in 

 connection with his work published several valuable memoirs on 

 the physical geography of the United States, particularly of the 

 Upper Mississippi. He also commanded several important Gov- 

 ernment exploring expeditions. He was a member of the Nat- 

 ional Academy of Sciences. 



