792 The American Naturalist. [September, 
tor in botany; Thaddeus William Harris, instructor in geology ; 
Charles B. Davenport, instructor in zoology ; William M. Woodworth, 
instructor in microscopical anatomy. 
The University of Kansas has established a periodical under the 
name “ The Kansas University Quarterly.” The first number, dated 
July, 1892, contains the following papers: Kansas Pterodactyls, Part 
I, and Kansas Mosasaurs, Part I, by Prof. S. Wendell Williston ; 
Notes and Descriptions of Syrphide, by W. A. Snow ; Notes on Mel- 
itera dentata Grote, by V. L. Kellogg ; Diptera Brasiliana, Part II, by 
Prof. Williston. 
The Société Zoologique de France starts the year 1892 with 277 
members. 
Herman Burmeister, zoologist, died at Buenos Ayres May 1, 1892. 
He was born Jan. 15, 1807, at Stralsund, studied at Greifswald and 
Halle, and was elected to the chair of natural history at the latter 
university at the death of Nitsch. Owing to the troubles of 1849-50 
he went to South America, and with the exception of two trips to 
Europe he spent the rest of his life there. In 1861 he became the 
director of the Museum of Buenos Ayres, and nine years later became 
the head of the faculty of sciences in the University of Cordoba. He 
is best known for his early work on entomology and his later papers 
describing the physical geography, zoology and paleontology of South 
' America. 
Chairmen of Committees on Anatomical and Biological 
Nomenclature.—Correctioy.—In a circular, “ American Reports 
Upon Anatomical Nomenclature,” issued last winter by Prof. Wilder 
as Secretary of the Committee of the Association of American Anat- 
omists, in the third paragraph of the third page, the Chairman of the 
Committee of the Anatomische Gesellschaft should be Prof. A. von 
Kölliker, and the Chairman of the American division (appointed in 
1891 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science) 
of the International Committee on Biological Nomenclature should be 
Prof. G. L. Godale. Prof. Wilder desires to express his regret for the 
errors, due in the one case to his own misapprehension and in the other 
to a clerical mistake. 
C. L. Herrick, formerly of the University of Cincinnati, and 
recently elected professor of biology in the University of Chicago, 
