462 The American Naturalist, [May. 
The Nautilus, a sixteen-page illustrated, octavo, monthly 
journal of Conchology will take the place of the Conchologisfs 
Exchange formerly published by Wm. D. Averell, and will be 
the successor of that paper. 
It will be under the editorial management of Mr. Henry A. 
Pilsbry, Conservator of the Conchological Section of the 
Academy of Natural Sciences, and the successor of the late 
Mr. Tryon in the publication of The Manual of Conchology. — 
William D. Averell, Mount Airy, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Prof. A. C. Haddon, whose journey to the Antipodes has 
already been noticed in these pages, is engaged almost as much 
in anthropological as in zoological investigations. He was re- 
cently in Thursday Island, where he finds that the young men 
know nothing of ancestral conditions, and if observations be 
not made soon with the aid of the old men it will soon be too 
late. He.will later go to the Louisiades and the neighboring 
islands, and then again to New Guinea. He will probably 
stop but a short time in Ceylon. 
At a recent meeting of the Academy of Sciences of Paris, 
Prince Albert of Monaco drew attention to the fact that ves- 
sels running short of provisions might obtain food sufficient to 
support life indefinitely if provided with apparatus for collect- 
ing the surface swimming forms. 
Dr. Heinrich Alexander Pagenstecher, director of the Mu- 
seum at Hamburg, died January 5, 1889, of heart disease. Dr. 
Pagenstecher was long professor of zoology at Heidelberg, and 
while there wrote his four volumed " AUgemeine Zoologie." 
He was sixty-three years of age. 
M. G. Meninghini, professor of geology at Pisa since 1849, 
ied January 29, aged seventy-eight. 
Charles Brogniart has recently found fossil cockroaches of 
le family Mylacridse in the Commentry formations of France. 
