618 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [Vow. XXXII. 
At last the University of Oxford is to have a respectable morpho- 
logical laboratory. Prof. E. Ray Lankester was appointed to the 
university in 1891, and during these years his work has largely 
been conducted in a small one-story building constructed of corru- 
gated iron, affording quarters far inferior to those in the average 
American college. The university is now to expend not more than 
$35,000 in removing the old building and in erecting on its site a 
laboratory and a lecture room for the chairs of botany and compara- 
tive anatomy. 
The Russian Society of Naturalists and Physicians holds its tenth 
congress at Kieff from August 21 to August 30. 
Money is being collected for a monument to the memory of the 
late Baron Ferdinand von Miiller, who did so much for Australian 
natural history. 
The Imperial Museum of Japan has just issued a preliminary cata- 
logue of the collection of fishes sensu latior in its possession. ‘The 
catalogue is compiled by Dr. Ischikawa and Mr. Matsuura, and 
enumerates 1076 specimens. The localities for each are given in 
Japanese except for those coming from extra-Japonic waters. The 
collection is almost exclusively Japanese, Balistes vetula, Anicurus 
nebulosus, and Lepidosteus osseus being the only American representa- 
tives. No specimens of Chlamydoselachus are catalogued, nor 
are there any Japanese species of Amphioxus included, although 
Nakagawu has recently described a form from Japanese waters. 
The fresh-water sponges Fphydatia obusta and Carterius tubi- 
sperma described by Edward Potts from American waters have just 
been found by Garbini in the Garda Sea of Northern Italy. 
The following information reaches us concerning the Geological 
and Natural History Survey of Wisconsin: Mr. Weidman is now in 
the field, completing the field work on an area of the older rocks in 
the vicinity of Wausau and Merrill, in the northern part of the state. 
This work will be continued during the summer. Mr. Buckley has 
been at work at a large report upon the building-stone industry of 
the state. This will probably be ready for the printer during the 
summer. 
The following work is planned for the season : Prof. R. D. Salis- 
bury, of Chicago University, and an assistant, will complete the work 
necessary to the preparation of a bulletin on the physical geography 
