1894.] Scientific News. 463 
C. C. Febinger, D. S. Sellers, S. G. Dixon, M. D., J. B. Henry, J. B. 
Leonard. 
Hon. Walter Rothschild proposes to publish a periodical in connec- 
tion with his museum at Tring, under the title of “Novitates Zoologicæ.” 
It will contain papers on mammals, birds, etc., and also discussions on 
questions of zoological or paleontological interest. Descriptions of 
new species will be confined almost entirely to those of which the 
types belong to the Tring Museum, and the other articles will, for the 
most part, be founded on work carried on at that museum or on speci- 
mens sent by Mr. Rothschild’s collectors. 
From the March number of Forest and Stream we learn that the 
buffalo in Yellowstone Park are again being harassed by hunters. A 
year ago this winter several buffalo were killed; last spring and the 
spring before, a number of calves were captured ; this winter ten buf- 
falo have been slaughtered at a single killing. At this rate it will not 
be long before the last shall have been shot down. It is for the people 
to say whether or not they desire this. 
Dr. Robert Lamborn has presented a valuable library of archeology 
to the University of Pennsylvania. 
The Zoological Garden of Philadelphia purchased the orang-outang 
which was on exhibition in the Javanese Village at Chicago. Itis a 
very intelligent and cheerful animal. Subsequently it acquired a pair 
of Cheetahs, and the rare Felis egra and F. jaguarondi from Mexico. 
Extracts from examination papers: . “ The meganucleus breaks up, 
the micronucleus breaks down.” “I don’t quite understand the differ- 
ence between Bacterier and posterior.” 
