1044 Scientific News. [Nov. a 
ized with Dr. Britton as secretary and treasurer, and is now — 
ready to receive subscriptions, which will be properly acknowl- — 
edged. Checks should be made payable to N. L. Britton, Treas- — 
urer, and post-office orders should be drawn on Station H, New — 
York City. ; 
The committee estimates that between six and ten thousand 
dollars will be required to erect and engrave a shaft worthy the 
memory of America’s first naturalist, and, while confident that 
this amount will be forthcoming, desires to have interest 
in the project by scientists in all departments in all portions of 4 
the country. 7 
—Prof. A. H. Worthen has recently secured by purchase for 
the State Museum of Illinois four collections of Carboniferous — 
fish teeth and spines, aggregating about two thousand specimens, — 
which probably cannot be duplicated on this continent. It will 4 
arranged for exhibition in the course of two or three months. — 
—Dr. M. E. Wadsworth has resigned the professorship of 
mineralogy and geology in Colby University, and has accepted l 
the directorship of the Michigan Mining School. His addet a 
now is Houghton, Michigan, U. S. A. Exchanges are especially i 
desired of papers relating to general and technical education, — 
een general and economic geology, mineralogy, ©) a 
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for 1887. Init are given generalizations base l 4 
investigations of the lakes of Illinois and Wisconsin. 1 
—Prof. A. F. Marion, of Marseilles, has been elected An 
sponding member of the Department of Anatomy and : 
of the Academy of Science at Paris. fe: 
—Dr. H. Mayr, of Munich, has been appointed to the pro 
sorship of botany in the University of Tokio. E 
—Dr. Oscar Hertwig has been appointed ordinary pr 
~ Of anatomy at Berlin, and Dr. G. Volkens has become a Pi" 
- docent in botany in the same university. i a) 
„Dr A Vachting; of Basle, goes to the chair of BOAT a 
Tübingen. 
: —Recent Deatus.—Olry Terquem, student of 
` at Passy, aged ninety years; Dr. G. Grewink, Pro . Prof. 
; eralogy at Dorpat, June 30, 1887, aged sixty-nine ly 1S 
de Koninck, the veteran palzontologist, at Lattich, J ie 
7 seventy-nine ; Julius von Haast, the New Zealand geo!” 
Sixty-two years, | 
