870 The American Naturalist. [October, 
fessors, Professor Lyenaga, of the Higher Commercial College, of Tokyo, 
Japan, and Professor Motora, of the Imperial University, of the same 
city. He is spoken of as one of the talented young men of Japan, 
and it is expected he will do a great work for his native country. He 
has already graduated from a Japanese college, and has published 
results of his work. He is nowon his way to this country to enter upon 
his studies at Madison. 
The members of the Geological Society of France attending the 
meeting to be held in Algiers, October 6, 1896, will have an oppor- 
tunity of examining the following localities: October 8-13, Sahel 
dalger, Massif de Blida, Médéa; October 14-18, Kabylie du Djur- 
jura; October 19-26, Constantine, Batna and Biskera. In addition 
to these excursions there will be one preliminary to the meeting. Mr. 
Brive proposes, October 3-5, to conduct a party to Chélif and Dakra 
to study the Miocene and Pliocene beds of these districts. 
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences has in process of con- 
struction a Museum of Arts and Sciences. It is proposed to group on 
one of the four porticos the names of seven great and representative 
men in science ; on another, seven great and representative men in art; 
on a third, seven great and representative names in philosophy ; and 
on the fourth, seven great and representative names in the realm of the 
“practicum” or the application of science and art to the so-called 
material wants of men. 
Information has been received that Prof. Daniel G. Elliott, of the 
Field Museum, Chicago, who is now travelling in Somaliland, has 
returned to Berbera from Gallas Mountains. He intends to make 
arrangements at once for exploring the interior of the country. He 
has been fortunate in securing a good collection of the fauna of the 
country, including quite rare species. 
The well-known naturalist Mr. Charles H. Sternberg has been col- 
lecting fossil plants in the Dakota Group in Kansas during the past 
season, and has obtained a collection of fine specimens which he offers 
for sale, either as a whole, or by the single specimen. 
The first or “ general” part of Dr. Richard Hertwig’s Lehrbuch der 
Zoologie has been translated by Professor George W. Field of Brown 
University, and will be published soon by Henry Holt & Co. 
