598 Scientific News. [July, 
— The municipality of Marseilles has granted a subsidy to-- 
wards the laboratory of marine zodlogy proposed to be esta 
lished on the Gulf of Lyons. In this connection appears in the 
Academy the statement that a dredging excursion in the Austra- 
lian seas, organized in connection with the Sidney Museum, has 
made extensive collections of marine life. 
— The thirtieth meeting of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science will begin at Cincinnati at 10 o’clock Aug. 
17th. It is expected that this meeting will be the largest and 
most important ever held in the West. The headquarters of the 
Association will be at Music Hall. 
— The reptiles and fishes of Australia have been made known, 
largely through the efforts of Mr. Gerard Krefft, who was the 
curator of the Sidney museum. His death in February last at 
the age of -fifty-one, has been announced in Nature. 
— The dinner of the New York Ichthyophagous Club took 
place at Glenn’s island (off New Rochelle, N. Y.), on May 27th. 
The menu was as follows: 
Little Neck clams. Sauterne. 
Potages. 
Consommé of Mossbunker. 
isque of Razor clams. Amontillado, 
*ceuvre. 
Boudins of Graysnapper a la Blackford. 
orseshoe crabs a la diable. : 
Sardines. Anchovies. 
Relevés, ae? 
Drum 4 la Cope. Filet de boeuf & la Richelieu. st. Ruifliole 
Pommes duchesse. 
Entrées. 
Raie au beurre noir. 
heepshead a la Normande. 
Sauté of shark, Chinese style. 
Squid a la Starin. 4 
Pain de menhaden & la Goo het 
Asperges. Nias 
Sorbet des Princes. 
Roti. 
Striped bass & la Mather, 
ibier. 
Hell-benders, Sea robins, Angle-worms, 
Pieces Froides. 
Lophius a la Baird. Sturgeon a l’Ichthyuphage- 
alade. 
Weed. 
Pommery: 
if 
Dessert. 
Glaces nautiques, Petits fours, —- Fruits, 
romages, Café. 
Liqueurs. 
The object of the society is to test and introduce to notice artl- 
cles of food, derived from fresh and salt water, whose merits tie 
generally unknown to American scientists and epicures. hag le 
occasion in question considerable progress was made in this ai" 
tion, while the guests were entertained by humorous 3 
