1897.] Scientific News. 753 
tive little volume “ Fiir Darwin” died at Blumenau, Brazil, May 21, 
1897, at the age of 75. 
Dr. John Murray had just opened a new biological station at Mill- 
port, on the Clyde. 
Prof. Jacob G. Agardh, of Lund, the well known student of sea 
weeds, secures the gold medal of the Linnean Society of London. 
From Science we learn that the United States Geological Survey has 
appropriations for the present fiscal year as follows: The topograph- 
ical surveys $175,000; for geological surveys and researches $100,000 ; 
for investigation of coal and gold in Alaska $5,000; paleontology 
$10,000; chemistry $7,000; gauging streams and water supply, $50,- 
000; numeral resources $20,000. Besides there are allowances for 
illustrations, printing, etc. The same bill also appropriates large sums 
for other surveys of the public forest lands; Indian Territory, etc. 
The Museum at Bergen, Norway, has for several years been very 
active and now is to be enlarged, the government furnishing half of the 
$40,000 required for the addition. Over 50,000 people visited the 
museum in 1896. 
The Field Columbia Museum of Chicago, has purchased the Schott 
collection of plants. 
We have often had occasion to speak of appointments to scientific 
office in the State of Indiana and Illinois. Illinois has again empha- 
sized the domination of the politician in these matters by the appoint- 
ment of a steamboat agent, Mr. C. H. Cranz, to the office of State Geol- 
ogist and curator of the state museum; while Kentucky is adopting a 
similar course if the recent appointment of G. W. Stone, a lawyer and 
a politician, to be inspector of mines be any criterion, 
Natural Science makes the astonishing statement that the tanks of 
the Port Evin Biological Station now contain “ a cross between Myxine 
and the cod.” 
Recent Deaths: Max Sintenis, entomologist at Kupferberg, Silesia ; 
Filipps Tognini, curator of botany in the University of Paris; M. 
Thollen, botanist, at Libreville, Africa, in J anuary ; G. Gercke, student 
of diptera at Hamburg; J. B. Barla, director of the Museum at Nizza ; 
Dr. Julius Sachs, professor of botany in the University of Wiirtzburg ; 
Sir Edward N ewton, ornithologist; Abraham der Bartlett, superin- 
tendent of the London Zoological Gardens. 
