684 coe Scientific News. 
not entirely devoid of intelligence. In one series of experiments 
a piece of tubing was placed over one of the rays of ee i 
star, so as to enclose it from its base nearly to its apex. OF 
ferent individuals adopted different modes of ridding then i F 
of the tube, and one failing, would try another. pe A 
they rubbed the tube off by friction on the ground; if e 
useless, they. would hold down the tube with the onma 
while drawing the imprisoned ray through it, or they i 
push the tube off with the serrated edges of the two — 
rays, or, as a last resource, would cast off the imprisone $ 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
—The meeting of the German Naturalists’ Association "a q 
held this year at Wiesbaden, from the 18th ta the 24th wre 
tember. Herr Dreyfuss, 44 Frankfurter-strasse, Wiesba : 
the secretary of the local committee. ee 
—The San Diego Natural H istory Society have had mi ik 4 
of a valuable lot of land, and propose soon to erect a buil = 
—Dr. R. W. Shufeldt criticises—and deservedly <7 “a 4 
erinary service of the United States army. He would e J 
by placing it on much the same basis as the regular me ; 
corps. 
a 
—John Sang, a British entomologist of note, died March 4 
1887, of valvular disease of the heart, at the age of fifty-nim® 
e€ was especially interested in the moths, and was a 200 
artist of no mean wers. 
— Dr. J. S. Poljakow, the Siberian explorer and conservato! 
the Zoological Museum of the University of St. Petersburg, 
in that city April 1 7, 1887. 
—The latesMiss Lucretia Crocker, of the school: board 0 
ton, was influential i 
from the year of its fo ye 
-the teaching of the biological sciences in the public sch 
ca season by two teachers of the Boston 
schools. Twenty-five hundred dollars are necessary 
rpose, E Bh 
—Princeton College is to have a new biological laboratory 
the early future. Pt: 
—The new building for the Zoological Museum at i 
completed, excepting the internal finishing. This, it is € 
will take until April 1, 1888, and then the collections 
