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he was on his way to Japan. He died of local fever, which his 
constitution was not strong enough to resist. One of his former 
instructors writes, “It is a great loss to me; he was always a 
charming fellow.” He had published only preliminary results 
of his studies, which were chiefly in the line of the development 
of Arthropods,—spiders, Lepidoptera, Orthoptera, and, with Dr. 
Brooks, Limulus. 
—The announcement is made that those desiring aid for sci- 
entific research from the Elizabeth Thompson fund should make 
early application to the secretary of the trustees of the fund, 
Dr. C. S. Minot, Harvard Medical College, Boston, Mass. All 
applications should state clearly the amount wanted, the purpose 
or which wanted, and other details, to aid the committee i 
making their awards. The awards will probably be made in 
May. 
—S. H. Vines, the eminent English botanist, has been given 
the degree of D.Sc. by the University of Cambridge, England. 
—The Academy of Sciences of Berlin has recently made its 
awards for the furtherance of science, among which may 
noted three hundred and seventy-five dollars to Karl Brandt to 
continue his studies of the Radiolaria, two hundred and fifty 
dollars to Dr. Ludwig in furtherance of his Echinoderm investi- 
gations, and nine thousand dollars in aid of various scientific 
publications, most prominent of which are Dohrn’s “ Zoolo- 
gisches Jahresbericht” and Dr. Taschenberg’s “ Bibliothek.” 
—In a recent number of the Natural History Transactions of 
the Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-on-Tyne Societies 
occur twenty letters from the late Charles Darwin to Alban 
Hancock relating to the barnacles. They are interesting reading, 
especially since they display the caution with which Mr. Darwin 
worked. 
= —For five years the Women’s Education Society of Boston 
has supported the Marine Laboratory at Annisquam, of which 
frequent mention has been made in these pages. Recently a 
meeting was held in Boston, at which the further continuance of 
the laboratory was discussed. Remarks were made by and let- 
_ ters read from those who were acquainted with the work done 
-~ and it was the general sense of the meeting that the laboratory 
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