1887 | Scientific News, — 601 
—Toeplitz and Deuticke, of Leipzig, announce a new journal, 
the Cextralblatt fur Physio olo ogie. It is edited by Dr. Sigmund 
Exner, of Vienna, and Dr. Johannes Gad, of Berlin, and is issued 
under the auspices of the. Physiological Society of Berlin. The 
first number appeared April 2, and the subsequent numbers will 
follow every two weeks. The subscription price is sixteen marks 
' ayear. 
r. W. Spengel, who has recently ee the position of 
Director in the Bremen Museum, goes to the University of 
Giessen as Professor of Zoology. 
—Professor C. Klein, of Gottingen, goes to the taisot of 
Berlin as successor to the pa Professor Websky, whose death 
was announced in our March number. The chair i Mineralogy 
thus left vacant at Göttingen is E filled by Dr. T. H. Liebsch, for- 
merly of Königsberg. 
—Professor A. Ludwig, of Giessen, has been called to Bonn 
to fill the chair left vacant by the retirement of the venerable 
Professor Dr. Franz Leydig. 
house in the line of science. 
—Dr. R. W. Schufeldt calls attention in the Auk for April to 
the valuable assistance that can be derived from the photogra~ 
phic camera in field ornithology. 
—Dr. Pelletan’s Yournal de. Micrographie begins this year the 
publication of a series of portraits of French scientific worthies. 
e faces of J. Béclard and Mathias Duval have’ so far appeared, 
bar they hardly answer the sen of portraits “ magni- 
fiquement gravés ou photogravés .. . formeront autant d’ceu- 
vres dart.” They are rather poorer than rhe series of “ Leaders 
of Science” published by the English Science Monthly. 
—At a recent meeting of the Marine Biological Laboratory 
(which, as noted in the April number of the NATURALIST, is to be 
a the successor of the Annisquam Laboratory) it was voted in- 
expedient to ia to open the station this year. It was 
voted to grant Mr. Van Vleck the use of the apparatus, etc., now 
at -Annisquam for the present summer. 
_ —John T. Ogden, for many years a well-known dealer in mi- . 
ae _¢roscopical goods in Boston, died in that city May 3, 1887. 
was born in Woodbury, N. J., pane; 1811, and in early life bare a 
civil e ir 
