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mer bill provides for the careful selection of proper lands for per- 
mannet forests, to be guarded from spoliation and destruction, and 
for the advantageous sale of merchantable timber under Govern- 
ment supervision, and with constant regard to the preservation of 
new growths. The bill also makes unauthorized cutting and injury 
a criminal offence, and establishes a system of guardianship and 
enforcement of the laws against individuals and corporations. The 
bill No. 7901 is much more loosely drawn as to protection from 
hat and injury, and lacks definite and strict methods of enforcing 
the law. 
—Professor Joshua Lindahl, of Rock Island, has been appointed 
by the Governor of Illinois to the position of Curator of the State 
a at Springfield, in place of the late Professor A. H. 
orthen. 
—THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY oF PHILADELPHIA is about to 
break ground for extensive additions to the reptile house. They 
are gomg to build two wings each thirty-two by twenty-eight feet, 
which will be simply conservatories. In one of these the tree- 
climbing snakes and lizards will be seen in the natural slate and 
among plants and shrubs as under natural conditions. 
PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
T BioLogicar Socrery or WASHINGTON. — May 19, 1888. — 
he following communications were read: Mr. F. W. True, 
Wm 
Tà HILOSOPHICAL Socrery oF WASHINGTON, Saturday Evening 
tH Aloe 1888.—The following communications were read: Mr, 
sede T. Edes, “ The Sphygmograph ;” Mr. H. A. Hazen, “ The 
ry nt Mount Vernon (111) Tornado ;” Mr. Merwin-Marie Snell, 
bservations on Certain Hypnotic Experiments of the Comte de 
to a court” Professor E. D. Cope, “ The Relation of Consciousness 
0 Animal Motion.” 
