764 The American Naturalist. [August, 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
The large scientific library of the late Prof. J. S. Newberry has been 
offered as a gift to Columbia College, New York. The collection will 
be known as the Newberry Library of Geology, being a memorial to 
Professor Newberry. 
A Chair of Geography has been established at the German 
University of Tiibingen. Geography is now taught at nineteen of the 
twenty-one German Universities, Rostock and Heidelberg being the 
exceptions. 
Mr. R. Bowdler Sharpe is about to publish a Monograph of the Birds 
of Paradise and the Bower-Birds. This Monograph will be published 
in six parts, forming one volume imperial folio, uniform with Mr. 
Gould’s Works, price three guineas each part, to subscribers only. On 
the conclusion of the work, should any copies remain unsubscribed for, 
the price will be raised to twenty guineas. 
International Congress of Zoology.—The permanent Commit- 
tee which has just been appointed for the International Congress of 
Zoology is as follows :— 
President, M. Milne Edwards (Paris). 
( M. Jentink (Leiden), 
: : | Count Kapinst (Moscow), 
Vice-Presidents, 4 Mf W. Studer (Berne), 
M. L. Vaillant (Paris). 
General Secretary, M. R. Blanchard (Paris). 
Secretary, Baron J. de Guerne (Paris). 
The permanent Committee propose the following question for the 
prize of S. A. I. le Tsarévitch, which will be awarded in 1895, at the 
Congress of Leiden. 
A Study of the fauna of one of the coin regions of the globe, and the 
relations of that fauna to the neighboring ones. 
The judges will accept works bearing upon either a branch or a class 
of the Animal Kingdom. 
The papers, manuscript or printed since the last Congress, must be 
written in French and sent before May 1st, 1895, to M. le President du 
Comité Société Zoologique de France, rue des Grands-Augustins, 7, 
Paris. 
