568 General Notes. 
annual meeting this year at Cologne, beginning on September 18th 
and continuing until the 23d. 
—Flower’s Osetology of the Mammalia has been translated into 
the German by Dr. Hans Gadow. 
—For over fifty years Karl Ernst von Baer’s “ Uber Entwick- 
lungsgeschichte der Thiere” has remained incomplete. At last, 
Dr. L. Stieder, of Königsberg, has issued the fourth (last) part 
from von Baer’s own manuscript. 
—Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, curator of the Bergens (Norway) Mu- 
seum, goes this summer to Greenland, and expects to cross the 
country on sledges and snow-shoes. 
—During the absence of Dr. Stuhlmann in Zanzibar, Dr. A. 
Schuberg occupies the position of assistant in the Zoological-zo0- 
tomical Institute at Wirzburg. 
—Dr. P. P. C. Hoek, of Leiden, well known for his many mor- 
hological investigations, has been appointed to the scientific direc- 
torship of the Dutch Fisheries Commission. 
—Dr. Ephraim George’ Squier, the well-known archeologist, 
died in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 17, 1888. He was born in Beth- 
lehem, N. Y., in 1821, graduated at Princeton in 1848. His first 
work of note was the investigation, in company with Dr. E. H 
Davis, of the mounds of the Mississippi Valley, the results of 
which formed the first volume of the Smithsonian “ Contributions: 
to Knowledge.” Other works in the same line were his “ Ancien 
Monuments of the West” and his “ Aboriginal Monuments of New 
York.” Later he was sent on government service to Central Amer- 
ica, which resulted in several works on the ethnology and antiqui- 
ties of that region. In 1863 he visited Peru, but his account of s 
investigations in that region was cut short in the middle of its pu 
lication by a mental disorder, which left him for the last seventeen 
years of his life utterly incapacitated for work. 
—Henry James Storin Pryer, a well-known entomologist, died 
in Yokohama, February 17, 1888. Since 1871 he has resided in 
China and Japan, and at his death had in press an extensive work 
upon the butterflies of Japan, with English and Japanese text. 
—The Pennsylvania Forestry Association appeals to re 
against the wide and wanton destruction of the forests. ma ay 
two bills now pending in Congress, No. 6045 provides gee stl 
for the mischief, and is greatly preferable to No. 7901. e 
