490 The American Naturalist. 
The proposed expedition will involve an expenditure of from 
$20,000 to $25,000. The expenditure covers two northern vo 
The first to land Peary and his party, and the second to bring i 
upon the completion of its work. An auxiliary summer expe di 
to be organized to take charge of the ship on her second voya 
movements of the vessel to be under the control of the Geog 
Club 
The design of the expedition is the complete determination a 
delineation of the detached land masses lying to the north of main 
Greenland. The second object will be the determination of th 
unknown portion of the east coast of Greenland, extending from n le 
pendence Bay to Cape Bismarck, the most northern point sigt by 
the German expedition in 1870. The third object will be the 
mination of the transverse profile of the Greenland inland ice ca 
Cape Bismarck to Inglefield Gulf. 
Other aims of the expedition will be the complete detailed st 
Whale Sound and Inglefield Gulf, with studies and measurem 
the glaciers in that region, and their parent ice cap ; a continua 
the study of the little tribe of Arctic Highlanders. As comp 
lections as may be practical will be made of the natural objects 
region, and more or less extended meteorological and tidal ok 
tions carried on. 
The amount of funds to be contributed by the Geographical C 
will be from $8,000 to 10,000. 
Botanists will hear with regret of the death at Brighton, Jan. I 
Dr. Benjamin Carrington, the highest authority on British E 
The State of Iowa has assumed the expense of the publication sie 
papers and proceedings of its Academy of Sciences, the vt 
having made an appropriation for that purpose at its last mee 
Professor A. M. Miller has been appointed to take charge 
department of Geology which has just been established in the 
College of Kentucky, at Lexington. 
Mr. John Eyerman has presented to the Princeton Museum 
_ easts of Rhytina gigas Linn, after the originals in the British M 
‘The number of casts is 20, that of the cranium, measuring 4 
_ -M, Johnston-Lavis has been appointed Professor of Valea 
the University of Naples. A similar chair existed at Cat 
was abolished at the death of its oceupant, M, Silvestri. 
