1887] Scientific News. 493 
all needed arrangements, due announcements of which will be 
made. The permanent secretary is Professor F. W. Putnam, of 
Salem, Mass. The attention of members is called to the new regu- 
lations regarding communications to be read at the meeting, and 
which resulted in the publication of the Proceedings of the Buffalo 
meeting more promptly than in any recent year. 
—The next annual meeting of the American Society of Micro- 
scopists will be held in Pittsburg, Pa., commencing August 30, 
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ville College, Waterville, Me., or the secretary, Dr. D. S. Kellicott, 
119 Fourteenth Street, Buffalo, N. Y., will furnish all desired 
information ee ate the society or the meeting to any one who 
may apply to 
—Ent eee will be pleased to learn that Mr. Samuel H. 
Scudder’s “ Butterflies of New En gland,” a work proposed many 
years ago, is rapidly approaching com pletion. It will be, as far 
as possible, exhaustive, and will be illustrated by from seventy to 
a hundred plates, besides several hundred cuts in the text. 
—It is the present intention of the United States Fish Com- 
mission to send the steamer “Albatross” to the Pacific shores 
next year to conduct there investigations similar to those which 
have been carried on for the past fifteen years along the Atlantic 
coast of the United States. The Commission is now engaged in 
preparing, in connection with the Signal Service and Light-House 
Board, temperature charts of the Atlantic from Maine to Florida. 
These are to have isothermals of ten days’ means, and it is hoped 
that they will throw considerable light upon the migrations of 
the more important of the economic fishes. 
—The second edition of the late Professor Balfour's “ Treatise 
we Comparative Embryology” is rena by the Spee as 
“ reprint without alteration” of t rst edition. An examina- 
fa, however, reveals a very serious inei in that sie pages 
of the new edition are not the same as those of the old, a matter 
of considerable importance when one wishes to refer to some 
tem For this alteration there is no excuse 
—The botanical collections of the late Thomas Moore have, 
been acquired eb the Royal Herbarium at Kew. They are espe- 
cially rich in fern 
—Among the recent deaths of scientific people we notice those 
of Poker Vincenzio Tenore, the botanist, at Naples; Dr. Cor- 
nelius Marinus van der Sande ‘Lacoste, the ‘student of mosses, at 
Amsterdam, January 15, at the age of seventy-two; Dr. A. 
korny, the botanist of Vienna, at Innspruck, December 29, 1886, 
at the age of sixty-one; Dr. August Wilhelm Eichler, Professor of 
Botany at Berlin and author of the “ Flora Braziliensis,” March 2, 
