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—An obituary notice of the late Professor F. V. Hayden, 
the pen of erim J. P. Lesley, occurs in the Proceedings of the 
American Philosophical Society, Vol. XXV. 
—The first part of the eleventh volume of the Suren = 
Cincinnati Society of Natural History contains a general index 
the previous ten volumes. 
—The annual report of the Essex Institute (Salem, Me tt 
that society ina prosperous condition. The additions to -= a 
for the year aggregate 20,739 entries, while the income for the year, 
exclusive of legacies and special fands, amounted to $4,405. 
—A new zoological station is to be started at Ostend. It will be 
supported by four Belgian universities. 
—The Linnean Society of London celebrated its hundredth anah 
versary May 24th, 1888. Among other features of the centennia 
were the reading of a eulogium upon Linnzus, prepared by his suc- 
cessor, Professor Fries, of Upsala ; one by Sir Joseph Hooker, upon 
Robert Browne; one by Professor Flower, upon Charles Darwin, 
and one by Professor P. W. T. Thistleton Dyer, upon cee 
Bentham. The council has decided to establish a Linnean go 
medal, to be awarded to a botanist and- a zoologist in alternate 
years, and the first award was made to Richard Owen and Sir 
Joseph Hooker. 
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—The meeting of the British Association for the Advancement 0 
grine will be held this year at Bath, beginning September 5th at 
P.M, 
—J. Jverson has been sent by the University of Christiania to 
Sumatra to make zoological collections for the University. 
—The first and second parts of the monograph of the weaver-birds 
Ploceidæ) and aboral aa terrestrial finches (Fringillidæ), by 
ward Bartlett, The Museum, Maidstone, Kent, England, is now 
ready for circulation, Price, 10s. 6d. each part. 
— Willard A. Stowell, 222 Second st., Trenton, N. J., is preparing 
* catalogue of all North American Ferns, embracing in that = 
“xico, Central America and the West Indies. He desires notes 
and exchanges, 
— Professor Harrison E. Webster, of Rochester University, has 
recently been elected President of Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. 
—The Association of German Naturalists and Physicians holds its 
