1891.] Scientific News. . 509 
While the location on the New Jersey coast is not as rich faunally 
as that of New England, it is, believed that certain counterbalancing 
advantages will be gained. One is the accessibility of the location, 
being only two hours by rail from Philadelphia. 
Friedlinder’s Mature Novitates for May, 1890, advertises under 
Vermes: ‘‘Thomas, C. The Circular, Be et and Octagonal Earth- 
worms of Ohio.” 
Judging from the plates in the Proceedings for 1890, the new 
addition to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia does 
not make an architectural unity with the older portion. 
Dr. E. Koken, of Berlin, has been elected ordinary professor of 
mineralogy and geology in the University of Kénigsberg. 
Dr. M. Braun, of Rostock, has been made ordinary professor of 
zoology in the University of Königsberg. 
Col. N. S. Goss died at Neosho, Kansas, March 11th, 1891. He is 
best known through his papers on the birds of his adopted state. 
Professor E. Ray Lankester has been appointed professor of zoology 
in the University of Oxford. His former position in the University 
. College of London is filled by Mr. W. F. R. Weldon. 
Professor O. Frass has been appointed conservator, and Dr. Lam- 
pert second conservator, of the Royal Museum of Natural History, at 
Stuttgart. 
The following choice bit of science is from Atkinson’s translation ot 
Ganot’s “ Elements de Physique,” page 5. It d/ustrates the divisibility 
of matter: ‘ Blood is composed of red flattened globules floating ina 
colorless liquid called serum. In man the diameter of one of these 
globules is less than the 3,50oth part of an inch, and the drop of blood 
which might be suspended from the point of a needle would contain 
about a million of globules. . . Again, the microscope has disclosed to 
us the existence of insects smaller even than these particles of blood ; 
the struggle for existence reaches even to these little creatures, for they 
devour still smaller ones. If blood runs in the veins of these devoured 
ones, how infinitesimal must be the magnitude of its component 
particles!” , |, «It is, hardly necessary to remind the reader that an 
-insect is an HER whether it is an unhatched egg, a growing larva, an 
_ apparently lifeless pupa, or a flying or creeping imago.”"—L£ntomologi- 
cal News, Vol. I., p. 86, 1890.” 
Am. Nat.—May.—7. 
