1893.] Scientific News. 593 
Reptiles and Fishes, M. Vaillant; May 9, Molluscs, M. Perrier; May 
13, Worms and Zoophytes, M. Bernard; May 16, Insects and Crus- 
taceans, M. Ch. Brongniart; May 18, Comparative Anatomy, M. Pou- 
chet; May 20, Botany (Phanerogams), M. E. Bureau; May 23, Bot- 
any (Wood, Cryptogams), M. Van Tieghem ; May 25, Living Plants, 
M. Cornu; May 27, Paleontology, M. Albert Gaudry; May 30, Geol- 
ogy, M. Stanislas Meunier ; June 1, Meteorology, M. Daniel Berthelot ; 
June 3, Mineralogy, M. Lacroix; June 6, Hygiene for Travelers, M. 
Gréhaut. (Revue Scientifique, April, 1893.) 
The Nottingham Meeting of the British Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science will be held under the presidency of Professor Burdon- 
Sanderson, the well-known physiologist. The presidents of the 
Natural History Sections are to be: Geology, J. J. H. Teall; Biology 
the Rev. Canon Tristram; Geography, Mr. Henry Seebohm; Anthro- 
pology, Dr. Robert Monro. 
Dr. Dall has done a good work in ascertaining the dates of the late 
Timothy A. Conrad’s books upon the Tertiary fossils of the United 
States. The quarrel which was their cause or their effect has fortun- 
ately passed into ancient history, and these unfortunate volumes show 
the ground of its permanent settlement. 
The cousins Sarasin, so well known for their expedition to Ceylon 
to study the development of the Cacilians, are about to start for a 
several years’ stay in the Celebes. 
The Rev. H. N. Hutchinson, 30 Vincent Square, Westminster, Lon- 
don, S. W., England, has, for sale, plaster casts of a model of the horned 
saurian Agathaumas, 12 inches long, for ten shillings. 
Professor Karl August Lossen, Chief Geologist of the Prussian 
Survey and Professor of Geology in the University of Berlin, died 
February 24, 1893. Most of his geological work was done in the 
Hartz Mountains. He was born January 5, 1841. 
Professor Karl Prantl, of the University of Breslau, died February 
24, 1898, in his forty-fourth year. He is best known for his text-book 
translated by Professor Vines, and for his share in the “ Pflanzenfamil- 
ien” of which he and Professor Engler of Berlin were joint editors. 
This work is, however, so near completion that it will probably be but 
slightly delayed. He also edited the Moss magazine, “ Hedwigia.” 
Edward Parfitt, a student of the Geology of Devonshire, England, 
died June 15, 1893, in his 73d year. 
