1887] | Scientific: News o aS Fe 789 
; —Dr. Walter Voigt, of Würzburg, has been appointed assistant 
in the Zoological Institute at Bonn. The position of assistant 
in the Zoological Zootomical Institute of Würzburg thus left 
_ vacant has been filled by the appointment of Dr. Franz Stuhlman. 
—It is reported that the Grand Duke Nicholas, of Russia, is 
an enthusiastic student of natural history, and that he has 
recently completed a work on the entomology of the region of 
the Caucasus. 
—The Ohio State Archeological and Historical Society 
announce the beginning of the Okto Archeological and Historical 
Quarterly, the first volume of which will contain, among other 
archeological material, a bibliography of the mounds of Ohio, 
The yearly volume will consist of about four hundred pages, 
and will be sent free to members of the society, while to others 
the price is one dollar per copy. 
now. For many years it has shared the building of the Salem 
dred thousand pamphlets. It is rich in historical and scientific 
__ the expenditure of a few hundred dollars its scientific side would 
have but few rivals in the United States. The Institute, twenty 
| — ago, placed its natural history collections as a permanent 
“posit with the Peabody Academy of Science, but it still retains 
à museum of historical specimens. 
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