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: 612 The American Naturalist. (July, 
- nell, under the direction of R. S. Tarr, will accompany Lieut. Peary on — 
 18-20th next, is to be held in the Caruegie Library Building, Pitts — 
: ments will be mailed to all members. 
_dinary Professor of Zoology in the University of Erlangen. 
most authoritative treatment. The whole work will be of enormous 
extent, and it is estimated that it will take twenty-five years for its 
completion. It will be issued in parts of an average size of 48 pages, — 
and the price charged to subscribers for the whole series will be 70 pf. — 
(174 cents) for each “signature” of 16 pages; single subjects will be — 
sold at an advance of 4 above this price. It is estimated thatthe 
Flatworms will occupy 4 parts; the Crustacea 11,the Hymenoptera 
13; the Mollusca 15, the Reptiles 3, and the Birds 16. The total will — 
be over 120,000 pages, and the series, when complete, in large octavos, 
will occupy not far from 30 feet of shelf room. The publishers of the — 
series are the well-known R. Friedländer & Sohn, of Berlin, and they — 
have already issued a sample number, embracing the group of Helio- — 
zoa, treated by Dr. F. Schaudim, of Berlin... This occupies 24 pages. — 
It is expected to begin regular publication with the year 1897, and the , 
parts will be issued as fast as possible, without regard to their sequence 
in the whole work. 
PEE I AEO 
It will probably be interesting to know that a party of five from Cor- a 
the trip to Greenland this summer. The party will be so constituted 
that the results will cover the several fields of natural history, although — 
the main object will be the study of geology, and especially glaciation. — 
The next meeting of the American Microscopical Society, August : 
burg. The local Committee on Arrangements is organized: C. ©. i 
Mellor, Chairman; Mayness Pflaum, Secretary and Treasurer, and C. 
G. Neilnor, Chairman Finance Committee, either of whom will be glad 
to give members and others desiring to attend all necessary informa- 
tion. As soon as sufficient arrangements are made, special announce 
Dr. R. Wagner, of Strassburg, has been appointed assistant in Vege- 
table Physiology in the University of Munich, and Dr. A. Y. Grevi 
lius, of Upsala, assistant in Botany at Minster. 
The Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences has recently elected Pro- 
fessors E. Strasburger, E. D: Copė, E. J. Marey and Sir A. eat 
honorary membership. 
Prof. M. Treub, Director of the Botanical Gardens, at Buitens 
who has been spending some time in Europe, has returned to Java. 
Dr. A. Fleischmann has been advanced to the position of Extraor- 
