262 Scientific News. {| March, 
whether it is possible to determine with biped from the exami- 
nation of the microscopic sections, what the genus and species of 
the plants may have been from which Sc se taken, 
— Mr. Angelo Heilprin was recently elected to the position of 
professor of invertebrate palzontology in the Academy of Natu- 
ral Sciences of Philadelphia. Henry Carvil Lewis was elected to 
the chair of geology and mineralogy in the same institution. Mr. 
W. B. Scott has been made assistant professor of geology in the 
College of New Jersey. 
— Etienne Mulsant, the veteran entomologist of Lyons, 
France, died Nov. 4th, 1880, at the age of 83. For half a cen- 
tury he has been one of the most active and voluminous of Euro- 
pean entomologists, having published numerous volumes and 
memoirs chiefly upon French beetles. 
— We have received the First Annual Report of the Museum 
of the Ohio Wesleyan University. Valuable collections of fossils 
and shells have been received, and the Museum appears to have 
been well remembered by its friends. Prof. E. T. Nelson is the 
curator. 
— Nests and Eggs of the Birds of the United States, with text. 
By Thomas B, Gentry. Illustrated by elegantly colored lithe- 
graphic plates, is announced by J. A. Wagenseller, Philadelphia. 
The work is not to exceed twenty-five monthly parts, at $1.00 a 
part. 
— The Botanical Collector’s Handbook, by W. W. Bailey, In- 
structor in Botany and Curator of the Herbarium in Brown Uni- 
versity, is ready for the press and will be published this spring 
by Mr. George A. Bates, Salem, Mass. The price will be $1.50. 
— The Ninth Annual Report of the Curators of the Museum 
of Wesleyan University for 1880 shows that unusual interest is 
being manifested in the perfection of the collections. Prof-W.D 
Rice is the Curator; Henry sborn, Assistant Curator. 
— It has been recently shown by Dr. Fatio that natural-his- 
tory collection (dry preparations) may be rapidly, easily, and 
without danger, freed from their various parasites by simpl 
spraying of anhydrous sulphurus acid in their receivers. 
— The skeleton of a finner whale from the Pacific ocean has 
just reached the Permanent Exhibition of Philadelphia, for Pro- 
fessor Cope. Its weight is over 12,000 pounds. Sixteen boxes 
of fossils arrived from Paris at the same time. 
— The Belgian Entomological Society recently celebrated its 
twenty-fifth anniversary. Baron de Selys-Longchamps, the first 
President, to whom the Society owes so much of its success, was 
unanimously elected Honorary President. 
We have received a list of plants growing without cultiva- 
tion in Malden and Medford, Mass., with some contributions to 4 
