SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
The German Society of Naturalists and Physicians will hold its 
meeting next year at Dusseldorf. Professor Waldeyer, of Berlin, will 
occupy the presidential chair. 
Many readers may be interested to learn that the Journal of the 
Boston Society of Medical Sciences has been enlarged and is now the 
medium for the publication of the abstracts of work carried on in 
Harvard Medical School, the Biological Laboratories of the Massa- 
chusetts Institute of Technology, and the Massachusetts General and 
the Boston City Hospitals. The journal is issued ten times a year, 
and the subscription price is $2.00. 
The British Museum has just acquired the collection of vertebrate 
fossils from the pliocene forest-beds of Norfolk, made by Mr. A. C. 
Savin. It contains about 1900 specimens, embracing many of the 
types of Newton, Adams, and Lankester. 
Among the most interesting of recent items of news are the items 
concerning the expedition of the Sydney Geographical Society to the 
Ellice Islands to study the structure of a coral reef. The drill was 
sent down to 557 feet. Down to 487 feet the results were inconclu- 
sive, but beyond that point they strongly favor Darwin’s theory; but 
the matter cannot be settled until a microscopic examination of the 
cores is made. The boring is being continued, and may be carried 
down to 1000 feet. 
The Albany Museum at Grahamston, South Africa, is to have 4 
new building two stories high, measuring 150 feet in length by 60 in 
breadth. 
Professor Gundelfinger, of the Technical High School at Darm- 
stadt, receives the gold medal for merit from the Academy of Sciences 
at Munich for his botanical researches. 
At the session of the Académie des Sciences held at Paris, Dec. 
13, 1897, the Cuvier Prize of 1500 francs was awarded to Prof. O. C. 
Marsh, of Yale University. This prize is “awarded every three 
years for the most remarkable work either on the Animal Kingdom 
- or on Geology.” The Cuvier Prize hitherto has been given to only 
