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products of his country as represented in our museums and 
libraries. 
— Thomas Davidson, the English scientist, is dead, at the age 
of 68. His researches were principally connected with geology 
and paleontology. His large work on British Fossil Brachiopoda, 
in five quarto volumes, will be, when published, one of the most 
complete palzontological monographs ever published. He has 
also published eighty scientific papers. His collection was be- 
queathed to the British Museum. 
— The board of regents of Kansas State University, at a re- 
cent meeting unanimously resolved to name the new museum 
ldguinib in process of erection, “ Snow Hall of Natural History.” 
This is a deserved compliment to Professor F. H. Snow, whose 
connection with the institution has been one of the mainsprings 
of its success. 
— The death of M. Charles Robin, the eminent histologist, is 
announced from Paris. He had been professor of histology at 
the Faculty of Medicine since 1832, and was in his 65th year. In 
1871 he worked with Littré in founding the Society of Sociology, 
and by his death the Senate loses all but the last of its scientific 
men. 
— The October number of the Johns Hopkins University 
Circular embraces a résumé of the work done in the Chesapeake 
Zoological Laboratory, under the direction of Professor Brooks, 
from May to September, 1885. It shows that much successful 
work was done during the season. 
— At the meeting of the Linnean Society of New South 
Wales, for May 27, Dr. Lendenfeld announced the discovery of 
sensitive and ganglion nerve-cells in the horny sponges, similar — 
to those which he had observed as occurring in calcareous sponges, 
but much larger. j 
— Dr. William Wood, of East Windsor Hill, Conn., died 
August 9, 63 years old. He was an excellent local ornithologist, 
several of his papers appearing in the early volumes of this maga- 
zine, i 
— The Annales des Sciences Naturelles, xıx, No. 1, contains 
discourses by Professors Quatrefages, Blanchard and Lacaze- 
Duthiers, pronounced at the funeral of Milne-Edwards. 
— The Kansas City Review comes to us in a new dress and 
with additional interest in its contents. The labor of years de- 
voted to it by Col. Case is evidently meeting its just reward. 
— James Macfarlane, author of Geological Railway Guide and 
Geologists’ Traveling Hand-Book, died October 12, at Towanda, 
Penna., aged 66. 
