210 The American Naturalist. [February, 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Sir Charles T. Newton, the eminent Archeologist, died Nov. 28. 
The Medals of the Royal Society for 1894, were awarded as follows : 
Copley Medal to Dr. Edward Frankland; Rumford Medal to Profes- 
sor Dewar; Royal Medals to Professor J. J. Thompson and Professor 
Victor Horsley; Davy Medal to Professor Peter S. Cleve; Darwin 
Medal to Right Hon. T. H. Huxley. 
Dr. J. Walther has been appointed Professor of Geology and Pa- 
leontology at the University of Jena; and Dr. König Professor of 
Zoology at the University of Bonn. 
A Government Museum for Natural History and Ethnology has 
been established at Para, Brazil, with Dr. Emil A. Goldi as first 
Director. 
Mr. Robert T. Hill of the U. S. Geological Survey has gone to 
Panama. 
Dr. H. C. Mercer of the Archeological Museum of the University of 
Pennsylvania, has gone to Yucatan. 
Dr. Robert H. Lamborn died suddenly of rheumatism of the heart 
in New York, Jan. 14th. Dr. Lamborn was born at Kennett Square, 
Chester Co., Pa. in 1836. He graduated at the University of Giessen, 
and took the degrees of Ph. D. He wrote treatises on the metallurgy 
of silver, and of copper, and on Mexican Native Painters. He acquir- 
ed a fortune in connection with various enterprises in the far West, 
especially by The Denver and Rio Grande R. R., the Mexican Na- 
tional R. R. ete. Of late years he was especially interested in Arche- 
ology, and he rendered invaluable assistance to various institutions in 
this direction. He also offered considerable prizes on two occasions, 
first for the best essay on the cultivation of dragon-flies for the destruc- 
tion of musquitoes ; and second, for the best essay on the characteris- 
tics of the best type of citizen. At the time of his death he was en- 
gaged on a research as to the part played in modern civilization by 
the Society of Friends, of which body he was born a member. 
Mr. W. H. Ballou has sent to the Legislature of New York a draft 
of a bill creating a zoological park commission for the City of New 
York, and providing for the establishing of a zoological garden in 
Bronx or Pelham Bay Parks. 
