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1887] Scientific News. 303 
—Dr. Martin Websky, professor of mineralogy in the Uni- 
versity of Berlin, died November 27, 1886, aged sixty-two years. 
—Thomas H. Dodge has given the Worcester Lyceum and 
Natural History Association one thousand dollars to buy tents 
and build a pavilion for the summer classes managed by the 
association at Lake Quinsigamond. 
—Dr. R. W. Shufeldt has issued a catalogue of his various 
scientific papers and shorter notes. It embraces one hundred 
and three titles of articles already published, besides several 
more in press or well under wa 
—Professor Ernst Haeckel, of Jena, goes this year to the 
Mediterranean to continue his studies. 
—The lectures given by Sir J. W. Dawson during the past 
winter, before the Lowell Institute, in Boston, are to become the 
basis of a volume in the “International Scientific Series.” The 
subject is the development of plants in geological time. 
` —January 15 Professor Hermann Burmeister, the entomologist 
and palzontologist, completed his eightieth year. Since 1871 he 
has been settled in Buenos Ayres, and has done much towards 
the working up of the fauna of the Pampas formations. The 
University of Buenos Ayres has recently conferred upon him, as 
well as upon Carl Berg, professor of botany and zoology in the 
University, the degree of Doctor of Physical Sciences, in recog- 
nition of their labors. 
—R. Friedlander and Sohn, of Berlin, have begun the publi- 
cation of another help for students of natural history. It is 
entitled Soctetatum Littere, and aims to give, in the briefest shape, 
a catalogue of all articles relating to natural sciences published 
in the transactions of learned societies in all parts of the world. 
The first number contains eight pages, and indexes thirty journals. 
The numbers will appear monthly, and are sent post-free for the 
nominal sum of two and one-half marks. It is edited by Dr. 
Ernst Huth, of Frankfurt a. O. From its more limited field, it 
will not take the place of the well-known bibliographic lists in 
the Zoologischer Anzeiger. . 
—Mr. Alexander Agassiz was honored with the degree of 
< Doctor of Science by the University of Cambridge during his 
recent visit to England. 
—There were fifty-two different contributors to the first volume 
of the AMERICAN NATURALIST, twenty years ago. f these at 
least thirty-four are alive at the time of writing. Are scientific 
studies conducive to longevity? 
. Thomas Moore, the superintendent of the Botanic Gardens 
at Chelsea, London, died on the first day of this year. He was. 
well known among botanists. 
—L. Ranvier, the well-known histologist of Paris, has been 
