SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Tuis is the jubilee year of Professor W. K. Brooks, and it seemed, 
therefore, to his pupils, past and present, an appropriate time to make 
some especial demonstration of the affection and esteem in which he 
is held by all of them, who include many of the leading zoologists of 
this country. Accordingly a committee, consisting of Professors. 
H. H. Donaldson, W. H. Howell, E. A. Andrews, E. B. Wilson, H. V. 
Wilson, S. Watasé, and T. H. Morgan, was appointed and arrange- 
ments were made to present him with a portrait. His birthday, 
March 25, was the date chosen for the presentation, which was made 
by Professor Howell in the presence of twenty-two of the subscribers 
assembled at Brightside, Professor Brooks’s home near Baltimore. 
The portrait, which was painted by Mr. Thomas C. Corner, is a very 
good likeness and represents Dr. Brooks seated with an open book 
in an attitude that is very characteristic and will call to mind many 
an interesting hour in the little “seminary room ” of the Biological 
Laboratory at Johns Hopkins. 
The Reception Committee of the Fourth International Congress 
of Zoology has issued a circular containing particulars with regard 
to lodgings and other accommodation at Cambridge during the meet- 
_ ing in August next, and giving other information as to the railway 
fares from various parts of the Continent, and other arrangements 
for the Congress. The circular is accompanied by a reply-form, to 
be filled out and returned to the Secretaries by any member of the 
Congress who wishes rooms to be taken for him. These circulars 
have been sent to all who have already informed the Reception 
Committee that they hope to be present at the meeting, and will be 
sent to other zoologists who apply to the Secretaries of the Recep- 
tion Committee, The Museums, Cambridge, England. 
At the meeting of the Council of the Boston Society of Natural 
History, April 20, it was unanimously voted to award the Grand 
Honorary Walker Prize of $1000 to Mr. Samuel Hubbard Scudder, 
of Cambridge, for his contributions to entomology, fossil and recent. 
The Walker prizes in natural history were established in 1864 and, 
in addition to the annual awards for memoirs on subjects proposed 
by a committee, provide for a Grand Honorary Prize to be given 
