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SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
The New Royal Bohemian Museum has set apart a special room 
for the exhibition of the collection of fossils made by the Dr. J. Bar- 
rande, illustrating his Système Silurien de la Bohème. In this con- 
nection it may be stated that the Barrande Fund, founded by Dr. 
Fritsch to carry on the work that ceased at Barrande’s death, has now 
reached the sum of 10,000 florins. The interest on this fund will be 
available next year for the endowment of research in the Silurian 
formation in Bohemia. 
The scientific world has sustained a loss in the death of Dr. Otomar 
Novàk, Professor of Geology in the Bohemian University of Prague. 
The sad event occurred July 29. The Professor was occupied with a 
continuation of Barrande’s work on the Silurian fossils of Bohemia, 
specially investigating the corals. 
Dr. H. J. Tylden, who died recently in England of typhoid fever, 
is supposed to have become innoculated while engaged in investigating 
the etiology of the disease. He had published a short time before his 
death an article in Nature on the Bearing of Pathology upon the 
Doctrine of the Transmission of Acquired Characters. 
Prof. von Graeff will have charge of an expedition next spring to 
the tropics to collect material for the completion of the second volume 
of his Monograph of the Turbellaria. The expenses will be defrayed 
by the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Vienna. 
Dr. George A. Koenig, late of the University of Pennsylvania, has 
been appointed Professor of Chemistry at the Michigan Mining School, 
Houghton. Prof. Koenig is one of the most accomplished mineralo- 
gists and metallurgists in the United States, and the University of 
Pennsylvania has suffered a serious loss. 
Materials for a museum of ethnology at Chicago are now being col- 
lected in South America. - 
The Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences has commenced the 
erection of the new wing of its museum. This will be 130 feet by 50, 
with an addition to the front of 50x47 feet, and will have four stories 
` and a light basement. 
Table of Contents of The North American Review for 
October, 1892.—A VinpicaTion oF Home RULE.—A reply to the 
Duke of Argyll, by the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Prime Minister 
of England.—The Excise Law and the Saloons, the Right Rev. 
Bishop Doane; The Real Issue, Senator Vest, of Missouri; The 
