754 The American Naturalist. [August, 
An important change has been effected at the National Museum by 
which the various departments of the institution have been divided into 
three sections—anthropology, biology and geology. The object is to 
secure a more simple administration of the museum’s affairs. 
Head curators, each with a salary of $3500 a year, have been ap- 
ointed from the present museum personnel, as follows: Anthropology, 
Professor W. H. Holmes; biology, Dr. Frederick W. True, executive 
curator of the museum, which office he will also retain; geology, Dr. 
George P. Merrill, Professor of Geology in Columbian University. 
A herd of some seventy or eighty buffaloes has been discovered in the 
northwestern part of Buchel County, Texas, 
Trinity University, of Toronto, Ont., has offered the honorary degree 
of D. C. L. to the following members of the British Association: Sir 
John Evans, President of the association ; Lord Rayleigh, Lord Lister, 
Sir John Lubbock, and Prof. Forsythe, of Cambridge. 
The viticultural services of the late Professors P. Duchartre and F. 
Laforgue are to be commemorated by marble plates in the houses in 
which they were born. Both were born in the neighborhood of 
Béziers. The former in 1806. 
Mr. A. W. Bennett has been appointed by the council of the Royal 
Microscopical Society to edit the well known journal of the society pre- 
viously edited by Prof. F. J. Bell. 
Dr. C. A. White and Mr. Charles Schuchert have gone under orders 
from the U. S. National Museum to join the Peary expedition to the 
Arctic regions. Their party will be put ashore at Disco island to 
explore the island for fossils, while awaiting the return of Lieut. Peary’s 
vessel. 
Mr. Currie, who accompanied Prof. O. F. Cook to Liberia, Africa, 
has returned, and reports that a large collection of insects and ani- 
mals has been made. Prof. Cook is expected in August. 
