Scientific News. 
— Mr. Francis Darwin has been elected University Reader in 
lotany in the University of Cambridge in succession to Dr. Vines, 
ow Professor at Oxford. 
— Mr. Charles B. Cory, chairman of the Committee on Hypno- 
tism of the American Society of Psychical Research, has issued his 
report. He believes that its use in connection with nervous diseases 
is worthy of consideration. 
— Mr. H. A. Pilsbry is continuing the Manual of Conchology, 
Structural and Systematic, begun by the late Geo. W. Tryon. Part 
39 of the first and Part 15 of the second series have recently been 
issued. 
L the Polytechnicnm 
— Dr. Robert Lamborn has presented a cast of the Phenacoclus 
primmvus to the American Museum of Natural History, New 
York. He has also deposited a fine collection of Mexican antiqui- 
ties in the Metropolitan Art Museum, New York, and a collection 
of Tuscan antiquities in the Museum of the School of Industrial 
Art, Philadelphia. 
— Professor Joseph Leidy, of Philadelphia, has received the 
Cuvier prize of the French Academy of Sciences in recognition of 
his importaut work in Natural History. 
— A work on the Extinct Mammalia, by Professors Scott and Os- 
born, of Princeton, N. J., has been announced by D. Appleton & 
Sons, New York. 
— Prof. J. T. Branner recently reported unfavorably on the sup- 
posed silver and gold mines of Arkansas, of which State he is Geol- 
ogist. The abuse he received from the papers of the alleged min- 
ing regions was extraordinary and unparalleled, but when he 
offered to submit the question to the judgment of other geologists, 
they did not accept his challenge. 
Two Interesting Models for Anatomical Studies. — Every- 
body who has visited the British Museum of Natural History in 
London has noticed the highly instructive anatomical preparations 
in the Central Hall of this wonderful building. A great part of 
these preparations are made by the very skilful hand of Mr. Rich- 
ard S. Wray, B.Sc, one of Prof. Flower's assistants. 
