Scientific News. . 1133 
 Pennatulids, a Pentacrinus “two or three feet long,” Chiton, 
Haliotis, Doliolum, pteropods and heteropods, Actinotrocha, 
Tornaria, Pilidium, etc., characterize the general facies of the 
ocality when viewed from the zoological side. 
—Dr. G. H. Sternberg, U. S. A., has just returned from Ha- 
vana. He was sent by the U.S. Health Commission to examine 
the claims. of the various methods reported by physicians in Rio 
Janeiro, Vera Cruz, and Havana for combating yellow fever by 
inoculation. The discovery of the supposed yellow-fever bacilli 
has been followed by attenuation cultures, after the method of 
_ Pasteur. Dr. Sternberg has brought with him culture series of 
_ these bacilli from all these localities, and will proceed to develop 
them and test their merits as preventives of this dread scourge 
of the tropics. l 
_—Prof. Alfred Giard, of Lille, has been called to Paris as 
“maitre de conférences à l’Ecole normale supérieure.” 
—Dr. O. S. Jensen, who had just published a valuable paper 
on “ Spermagenesis in Mammals, Birds, and Batrachia,” died in 
r Christiania, September 14, 1887, aged forty years. BES 
-Skilful anatomist. 
_—Professor Hugo Lojka, of Buda-Pest, a student of lichens, 
died September 7 
_ bued with that love of natural history to the study of which his 
life has been devoted. His attention was early directed to botany, 
a subject which he pursued with unabated zeal throughout life, 
and it was the success that attended his early efforts in this study 
