1895.] Scientific News. 613 
The Lehrbuch der praktischen vergleichenden Anatomie of Vogt 
and Yung is at last complete. It was begun in 1885. 
The German Zoological Society wiil hold its annual meeting at 
Strasburg, June 4-8, 1895. 
One boa in the zoological gardens of London recently swallowed an- 
other of his species which nearly equalled him in size. 
Dr. Lewis R. Gibbes, of Charleston, S. C. died in that city, November 
21,1894. He was born there Aug. 14,1810. In his early days he 
he was an ardent zoologist and the Proceedings of the Elliot Society 
(of which he was one of the founders) the American Association for the 
Advancement of Sciences and other journals formerly contained numer- 
ous systematic papers from his pen. Since the war he has left the 
zoological field, and has occupied the chair of mathematics and astron- 
omy in the college of Charleston. 
Dr. Bela Haller, well-known for his Molluscan studies, is now privat- 
docent at Heidelberg. 
The bibliographical movement recorded in the columns of our Jan- 
uary issue is making considerable progress towards its complete 
organization. The ultimate suecess of the undertaking now seems 
highly probable. In France, the organization has reached its greatest 
perfection and as an example of what is needed in America we may 
briefly describe what has been done by a number of zealous French 
zoologists. The annual meeting of the French Zoological Society held 
in February, 1894 had already discussed the matter in a preliminary 
way and had referred the decision to the Council of the Suciety. After 
mature consideration the Council of the Society designated one of its 
members, Prof. Bouvier, vice-president of the Society to study all the 
details of the project and to report upon them at a subsequent meeting. 
This report of M. Bouvier was presented in February last and was 
unanimously approved by the Council who ordered it to be presented 
before the Annual Reunion of February 28. 
Basing its decisions upon this report as well as upon the recommen- 
dations of the Council, the Society nominated a permanent central Com- 
mission de patronage et de propagande comprising the following persons: 
—Prof. Blanchard, Prince Bonaparte, Prof. Delage, Prof. Filhol, Prof. 
Gandry, Baron de Guerne, Prof, Milne-Edwards, Prof. Raillet and Prof. 
Vaillant. As associate members twenty zoologists chosen to represent 
the various publishing centres of the country were nominated. It is 
through their agency that the central commission hopes to reach every 
part of France and to secure all the strictly zoological publications 
needed for the Bureau’s work. Journals rarely containing zoological 
papers as well as any zoological journals or books which the Bureau - 
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