Scientific News. 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
The Trustees and Director of the Marine Biological Labor- 
atory are now forming a permanent and somewhat extensive 
library for the use of workers at Wood's Hall. They have 
received already a gift of money sufficient to secure a very 
considerable nucleus of sets of biological journals and other 
standard works, to which they now desire to add also mono- 
graphs and special contributions. As members of the Com- 
mittee on the Library, we venture to ask that you will send to 
Dr. C. S. Minot, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass., any 
copies of your own publications, as well as any duplicates or 
other books, etc., which can be spared from your own collec- 
tion of biological works, and which you are willing to present 
to the Laboratory. All works received will be promptly ac- 
knowledged and duly catalogued. 
C. S. MiNOT, ) 
W. T. Sedgwick, > Committee. 
Boston, Feb. 2 
Audubon Monument Committee. — About a year ago we 
called attention, by means of a circular letter, to a project for 
erecting a monument to the illustrious naturalist, JOHN jAMES 
Audubon, and requested contributions for that purpose, the 
expense of the design adopted being estimated at from $6,000 
to $10,000. 
We have now received about $1,000, and rather than obtain 
the remaining sum in New York City— as our plan has been 
from the first to make the Monument a national one — we 
again call your attention to the matter. 
In order to encourage subscriptions, we have obtained re- 
productions from the best portrait of AUDUBON extant, and 
will send these, of a size suitable for framing, to every contribu- 
tor to the fund of one dollar or more. 
Remittances should be sent to the undersigned. — N. L. 
Britton, Secretary and Treasurer, Columbia College, Nctv York 
City. 
The Dutch East India government grants annually $30,000 
for the support of the Botanical Garden and Laboratory at 
Breitenzorg, Java. 
It is proposed in Norway to start another North pole expe- 
dition in 1890, under the leadership of Dr. Fridjof Nansen. 
