1897.] Scientific News. 1067 
Among the work accomplished by the Johns Hopkins party at Port 
Antonio, Jamaica, the past summer was the following: The late Pro- 
fessor Humphrey collected material giving the complete embryology 
of one of the palms, of Casuarina and of the wild ginger, as well as 
much material upon the shell-boring alge. The late Dr. Conant con- 
tinued his studies of the rare group of Cubomeduse. Dr. Clarke paid 
especial attention to the embryology of the echinoderms. Mr. Sudler 
obtained abundant material of the metamorphoses of the crustacean 
Lucifer. Mr. Grave studied the development of the brittle stars, while 
Mr. Berger collected a large amount of material for the study of the 
false scorpions. Mr. Duerden, of the Institute of Jamaica, was a guest 
of the laboratory and studied the sea anemones. Until the fatal last 
week the work of the laboratory was most successful. All of the speci- 
mens and drawings of the party have been preserved, and the results 
will be worked up later. 
A correspondent has been kind enough to call our attention to an 
error on page 829 of the September number, where we say that natural 
history specimens are now charged postage at the rate of one cent for 
every two ounces. Asa matter of fact, we are informed, this ruling of 
the recent postal congress does not take effect until January 1, 1899. 
The late Theodore Lyman, whose death was recently noticed in these 
pages, gave his library of works upon Natural History to the Museum 
of Comparative Zoology of Harvard University. 
The Indian section for the collection of funds for the Pasteur memo- 
rial has sent to Paris £442 17s. 6d 
