General Notes. 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
— Dr. G. Ruge, of Heidelberg, has been called to the Professor- 
ship of Anatomy at Amsterdam. 
— The results of the explorations of the late N. M. Prjewalski 
in Central Asia are to be published by the Imperial Academy 
of Sciences of St. Petersburg, at the expense of the Crown 
Prince Nikolas Alexander. The first part of the first volume of 
Zoology has appeared and contains the Mammals by E. Biichner. 
Prjewalski was Just starting on a new Journey to Central Asia when 
his death occurred, Nov. 1, at Karacol. He belonged to a noble 
family and was born in 1839. His first Siberian journey was under- 
taken with ridiculously small means ; it lasted thirty-four months 
and cost 6000 roubles ($4200). His second Journey (1877) was under 
the auspices of the Russian War Department and resulted in the re- 
discovery of the Lob-Nor, which had not been seen by a single 
European since the days of Marco Polo. His third Journey resulted 
in his discovery of the" ancestor of the domestic horse {Equiis prje- 
valskii Poliaeff). The fourth Journey (1883) had for its objective 
point Thibet, and the fifth, on which he had just started when his 
death occurred, was an attempt to reach H'lassa, the sacred city of 
Lamaism. Prjewalski's natural history collections embraced TOO 
specimens of mammals, 5000 birds, 1200 reptiles and batrachia, 800 
fishes, 2000 molluscs, 10,000 insects, and between 15,000 and 16,000 
plants. 
— Prof. A. C. Haddon, of Dublin, who sailed last summer for Tor- 
res Strait, has arrived there safely, and is engaged in studying the 
Sea Anemones, Nudibranchs, and the habits and placentation of the 
dugong or southern sea-cow. He is also collecting all the ethno- 
logical material obtainable, as the native population is rapidly dying 
out. 
— The Copley Medal of the Royal Society is this year awarded 
to Prof. T. H. Huxley for his investigations on the morphology and 
histology of vertebrate and invertebrate animals. Baron Ferdinand 
von Muller receives the Royal Medal for his investigations of the 
Flora of Australia. 
, National Mu- 
— Samuel P. Fowler of Danvers, Mass., died Dec. 14, 1888, aged 
! years. He was a contributor to the American Naturalist in 
