SCIENTIFIC NEWS. I4!I 
versity of Jena. It is doubtful if the large work on Australia already 
_begun is ever completed. Indeed, the monotremes and Ceratodus 
seem veritable “hoodoos.” The material obtained a dozen years 
ago by Mr. Caldwell, aided by Royal Society funds, is lying unused, 
and with no prospect of being studied. 
Will some reader of this journal inform a correspondent concern- 
ing “Teichmann’s injection mass”? It is mentioned by Hochstetter 
(Morphologisches Jahrbuch, vol. xiv, p. 122) as being admirably adapted 
for use with the fish-like forms. 
The British government is gradually grinding out “ Jubilee medals.” 
Among the latest to receive them are Dr. Albert Giinther, the well- 
known ichthyologist, and Dr. R. Meldola. 
The Zoological Society of South Australia receives $10,000 by the 
will of the late Sir Thomas Elder, and the Medical School of the 
University of South Australia receives $100,000 from the same 
source. 
The Harvard Natural History Society celebrated its fiftieth anni- 
versary December 17 with addresses by Prof. N. S. Shaler and 
William T. Hornaday. It is next to the oldest student scientific 
society in America, the oldest being the Lyceum of Natural History 
at Williams College, which was founded in 1837 and has retained a 
vigorous organization since that time. 
Gen. Albert Ordway, who died in New York City November 21, 
was at one time a student under Agassiz, and published one or two 
papers upon the Crustacea, the most notable being an outline of a 
monograph of the species of the genus Callinectes (better Neptunus). 
e was born in 1843, entered the army, and was connected with 
military organizations during the remainder of his life. 
With the new year Prof. Raphael Blanchard begins the publication 
of a new magazine, Archives de Parasitologie. 
The library of the late Prof. Carl Vogt goes to the Senckenberg 
Natural History Society at Frankfurt-on-the-Main. 
Hamilton College (Clinton, N.Y.) has just dedicated a new sci- 
ence building given by Mr. Elihu Root, and named in honor of his 
father. 
The Royal Society has awarded the Copley medal to Prof. Albert 
von Kölliker, of Würzburg, who just before had received the Retzius 
medal from the Swedish Medical Association. 
