658 The American Naturalist. [July, 
Prof. G. O. Sars who has for many years been studying the vari- 
ous groups of Crustacea has in preparation a complete account of the 
Crustacea of Norway, and his work is now in course of publication by 
the Bergen Museum. All the known Norwegian species will be de- 
scribed and figured. Parts III and IV of vol. I, containing descrip- 
tions and illustrations of five families of Isopods, viz., Anthuride, 
Gnathiide, Aegidæ, Cirolanide, and Limnoriide, have just been issued. 
Among recent deaths we notice: H. d’Achon, coleopterist, at Or- 
léans; Dr. Maurice Teinturier, coleopterist, at Clayeures, France ; 
Edmund Neminar, formerly professor of mineralogy and petrology in 
Innsbruch, on April 10, 1897, at Vienna; Karl Kélbel, custodian of 
the Natural History Hofmuseum at Vienna; Ludwig Juranyi, profes- 
sor of botany at Budapest, February 27th ; Dr. A. Kumgott, professor 
of mineralogy at Ziirich, March 15, aged 79. 
Dr. W. H. Evans, of Washington, D. C., has gone to Alaska for 
several months to investigate the agricultural resources and possibili- 
ties of that portion of the territory lying south of the Aleutian penin- 
sula. He will report to Congress as to the advisability of establishing 
experiment stations there. Dr. Sheldon Jackson is to collect similar 
information regarding the Yukon Basin. 
Professor Nelson, the University of Wyoming botanist, will make 
an excursion into the Red Sea Desert. This tract of land has never 
received a botanical investigation, and the professor has planned to 
make three other trips into the desert during the summer. He expects 
to obtain many rare botanical specimens. 
A proposition is under consideration in the English scientific socie- 
ties fur the establishment, in commemoration of the sixtieth year of 
Her Majesty’s reign, of a Victoria research fund, to be administered by 
representatives of the various scientific societies for the encouragement 
of research in all branches of science. 
Professor Bruner, of the University of Nebraska, has sailed for 
Buenos Ayres, where he will spend a year investigating the injurious 
locusts which have, of late, increased enormously in three of the east- 
ern provinces of the Argentine Republic. 
Dr. Ludwig Heim goes to the University of Erlangen as professor 
extraordinarius of bacteriology; Dr. Vladislaw Szymonowiez of Cra- 
cow goes to Lemberg as professor extraordinarius of histology and em- 
bryology in the university there. 
