SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
For many years Canon A. M. Norman has been a diligent student 
of the marine invertebrates of northern seas, and as a result has 
accumulated collections rich in types of his own and his collabora- 
tor’s new species. These have now been purchased by the British 
Museum. 
Prof. Michael Foster will be president of the British Association 
at the meeting at Dover in 1899. 
Dr. W. McM. Woodworth has gone to the Samoan Islands in the 
interest of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.  __ 
The anthropological expedition, under charge of Prof. Alfred C. 
Haddon, has reached Murray Island, where a laboratory has been 
established in the same building which Dr. Haddon occupied during 
his previous visit to the island. 
The United States Fish Commission has rediscovered a school of 
the valuable and interesting tile fish about seventy miles south of 
Martha’s Vineyard. 
Sir William Flower has resigned the directorship of the British 
Museum (Natural History) on the grounds of ill-health. 
The British government is establishing a botanic garden and ex- 
periment station in Uganda under the direction of Mr. Alexander 
Whyte. 
A striking commentary upon the demand for agricultural education 
is furnished by the enrollment last year in the State University of 
the agricultural state of Nebraska. Out of a total enrollment of 1915 
there were 36 in the agricultural and mechanical school. 
Dr. A. Moller, of Eberswald, Prussia, is engaged on a life of Fritz 
Miiller, and desires letters, etc., which will aid in the preparation of 
his memoir. 
John P. Marshall, professor of geology in Tufts College since its 
foundation (1855), has been made professor emeritus. 
Mr. R. D. Lacoe, of Pittston, Pa., has added to his gifts to the 
National Museum the fossil insects in his collection, amounting tO 
many thousand specimens. 
