1893.] Scientific News. 491 
Mr. G. W. Lichtenthaler, one of America’s most eminent con- 
chologists, died in San Francisco. Feb. 20, 1893. For 20 years he had 
been a traveler and collector in almost every sea and country. During 
this time he brought together a large collection of specimens, which he 
bequeathed to the Illinois Wesleyan University, in his home city, 
Bloomington, Ill. 
The collection embraces mainly shells, sea algae and ferns. His shells 
have been estimated conservatively at from six to ten thousand species, 
including thousands of duplicates. They embrace the Hemphill col- 
lection which he purchased, a large collection from the Hawaiian 
Islands, which he visited often; many from the Micronesia, Australia, 
Japan, the coasts of Europe, and America, and from every part of the 
United States. 
The sea algae contain about a thousand species, all mounted in 
books and identified, and a large number of duplicates. They were 
collected from both coasts of America, from north to south, a large 
number from England, and many from other countries. 
There are about 500 species of ferns, including the many duplicates. 
They represent a complete collection of the ferns of the Hawaiian 
Islands, and almost a complete collection of those of the United 
States, besides many from Europe, Asia, Australia, South America, 
te. 
He has also brought together many mosses and lichens, the number 
of which cannot be given with precison, but there are several hundred 
species. 
The Marine Biological Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University 
will be located this Summer at Port Henderson, Kingston Harbor, in 
the island of Jamaica. 
Dr. R. P. Bigelow, present holder of the Bruce Fellowship with 
Messers Lamb, Siegirfuss and Lefevre left Baltimore, April 20, by a 
fruit steamer for Port Antonio, whence they will go to Kingston to 
open the Laboratory. Others with the Director, Professor W. K. 
Brooks expect to go down there later. 
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 15, 1893. 
Tue Faculty of the Museum or Comparative Zoooey will receive 
applications from candidates desiring to oecupy the table at the 
NAPLES ZOOLOGICAL Station, which has been placed at its disposal 
“from October 1, 1893. 
The applicant must be (or have been recently) a student or instructor 
