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fossils, except in the case of the provisionally determined Strophodonta 
varistriata, but the discovery, in one day, in a very limited area, of 
four fossiliferous bowlders, representing as many different geological 
horizons, is perhaps worthy of note. 
Tue BroLoGIcAL Socrery or WasHineton, Jan. 13, 1894.— 
Communications: Dr. Theo. Gill, the Segregation of the Osteo- 
physarial Fishes as Fresh water Forms. Mr. Robt. T. Hill, a new Fauna 
from the Cretaceous Formations of Texas. Dr. C. W. Stiles, the 
Teaching of Biology in Colleges. Mr. J. N. Rose, a Botanical trip 
to Northwestern Wyoming. 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
`The death is announced at Paris of the biologist Dr. Chabry, known 
for his work in experimental teratology. 
M. Paul Fischer, the conchologist of the Museum d’Histoire Natur- 
elle, died Nov. 29, 1893. He contributed largely to the literature of 
science, his Histoire des Mollsques du Mexique being, perhaps, the 
best known of his works. 
Dionys Stur, late director of the K. K. geologische Reischsanstalt 
of Austria, died at Vienna, Oct. 9th, 1893. 
The loss to zoology by the recent death of Prof. Milnes Marshall, of 
Owens College, Manchester, England, is not easily estimated. Thereis 
a striking similarity in the manner of his death and that of his in- 
structor, the lamented. Marshall was climbing one of the peaks 
ef Scfeawll, in Cumberland, when his foot slipped, and he fell over 
a precipice. His death occurred June 31, 1893. 
A prize of 1,800 francs is offered by the Italian Geological Society 
for the best memoir on the present knowledge of the paleozoic and 
mesozoic formations in Italy. This paper will follow one by D’Archiac 
entitled “ History of the Progress of Geology ”, and must be presented 
before the end of March, 1896. 
Dr. Harrison Allen has been appointed director of the Wistar Insti- 
tute of Anatomy of the University of Pennsylvania. 
