1897]. Scientific News. 923 
England, July 20th, aged 79; Dr. J. Hammond Trumbull, student of 
American linguistics, at Hartford, Conn., Aug. th, aged 76; Capt. 
Bertram Lutley Sclater, African explorer, son of P. L. Sclater, at Zan- 
zibar, July 24 aged 31; Dr. Alfred Moquart, professor of anatomy at 
Brussels on June 5th ; Count Victor Trevisan, cryptogamist in Milan, 
April 8th 
For many years we have heard tales from the southwest regarding 
the “Enchanted Mesa” which in brief were to the following effect. 
Many years ago this table-land was inhabited by a tribe of Pueblo 
Indians, but a sudden catastrophe rendered the top of the mesa no longer 
accessible. To investigate this legend was one of the objects of Pro- 
fessor Libbey in his recent trip to New Mexico and we summarize the 
results of his ascent of the Mesa Encantada from the dispatches in the 
daily papers. The ascent was made July 23, 1897 and was successful 
in every respect. Ropes were thrown over the mesa by means of a 
cannon borrowed from the Life-Saving Service of the U. S. Government 
and by means of a boatswains chair the party were hauled to the top, 
550 feet above the surrounding plain. The level top was about fifteen 
acres in extent, its sides being precipitous. No traces, whatever of 
former human habitation were found, the legend apparently being 
without any foundation. Here, however, there is room for a difference 
of opinion. In Science, for September 17, W. S. M.,” whose initials 
will readily be recognized, states that on September 3, 1897, Mr. F. W. 
Hodge, of the Bereau of Ethnology, sealed the mesa and found frag- 
ments of pottery, two broken stone axes, a stone arrow point and some 
other evidences of former occupancy. 
Col. Theodore Lyman died at Nahant, Mass., Sept. 9, 1897. He 
was born at Waltham, Mass., Aug. 23, 1833, graduated at Harvard in 
1855, and then spent three years in study under the late Professor 
Louis Agassiz. He served in the Union Army from 1863 to the close 
of the war. In 1865 he was appointed Commissioner of Fisheries in 
Massachusetts, a position which he held for 17 years, and in 1882 he 
was elected a representative in Congress. He was connected with 
many educational and philanthropic interests. In zoology he was 
largely interested in Echinoderms, and published several important 
papers upon the Ophiuroids, his chief work in this line being the large 
monograph of 400 pages and 48 plates in the Results of the “ Chal- 
lenger Expedition.” For more than ten years he had been an invalid. 
From Science we learn that the Berlin Academy of Sciences has 
made the following subsidies for scientific work. Prof. F. E. Schulze, 
