924 The American Naturalist. [October, 
to aid in the publication of Das Theirreich, Mk. 35,000; Prof. Engler, 
for publication of monographs on African botany, Mk. 2000; Dr. G. 
Lindau, for studies on lichens, Mk. 900; Prof. F. Frech, for geological 
studies, Mk. 1500; Prof. H. Hiirthle, for studies on muscles, Mk. 850; 
Prof. R. Bonnet for work on blood vessels, Mk. 800; Dr. Liihe, study 
of the fauna of the salt lakes of Northern Africa, Mk. 2000; Dr. G. 
Brandes for studies on Nemertines, Mk. 300; Dr. R. Hesse for studies 
on eyes of lower invertebrates, Mk. 500; Prof. E. Cohen, study of 
meteorites, Mk. 1500; Dr. L. Wulff, for experiments on artificial 
erystals, Mk. 1500. 
The first number of the Zoological Bulletin, edited by Whitman and 
Wheeler has appeared from the press of Ginn & Co., Boston. It con- 
tains four articles: E. P. Allis on the petrosal and sphenoid regions of 
Amia; C. W. Hargitt, experiments on regeneration in Ccelenterates; 
C. L. Bristol, the metamerism in Nephelis, especially as shown by the 
nervous system ; G. Baur, a criticism and reply to the recent paper by 
umpus in so far as the latter denies the probability of the infercala- 
tion of vertebræ. The Bulletin is gotten up in the same shape as the 
Journal of Morphology. It is to be issued six times a year, each num- 
ber containing at least fifty pages. The subscription price is $3.00 per 
annum. The title page gives a list of 73 well-known names as colla- 
borators. 
The Academy of Sciences of Berlin, offers a prize of 2000 marks for 
the best memoir upon the origin and characteristics of the different 
cereals during the past twenty years. The memoirs which may be 
written in German, Latin, French, English or Italian, must be sub- 
mitted to the Academy on or before December 31, 1898. Another prize 
of 1000 marks, is offered by the Prince Jablonowski Society of Leipzig 
for the best memoir on the causes which produce and control the direc- 
tion of the lateral axes of shoot and root systems of plants. The com- 
peting memoirs are due on or before November 30, 1900. 
Dr. Franklin Story Conant died in Boston, Sept. 13, of pernicious 
malarial fever. He was a graduate of Williams College, and had just 
received the degree of Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins University, as well 
as the appointment to the Adam T. Bruce Fellowship in that institu- 
tion. He accompanied the Johns Hopkins party to Jamaica this sum- 
mer, and was taken sick on the return voyage. Dr. Conant’s only 
published work was upon the Cheetognaths, but he had other and im- 
portant papers nearly ready for the press. 
