mo The American Naturalist. [December, 
The Tokio Zoological Society has begun the publication of the 
Zoological Magazine, a popular journal in the Japanese language. We 
understand that it is not the intention to publish in it original contri- 
butions to science, but rather popular resumes of scientific work. 
The annual report of the Essex Institute at Salem, Mass., makes a 
good showing. The library has been increased by 11,397 volumes 
and pamphlets, while the regular income amounts to ^4,288 ; of which 
over ;^i,ooo was expended for printing. 
With the October number The Microscope has a change of publisher 
and editor. It is now in the editorial charge of Dr. Alfred C. Stokes, 
of Trenton, N. J., while " The Microscope Publishing Company," of 
145 North Greene Street, Trenton, N. J., has charge of its business 
A party under Professor Angelo Heilprin, recently left for Mexico 
to explore the volcanic belt stretching across the lowlands from the 
Gulf to the Pacific Coast. The expedition is sent out under the 
auspices of the Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia. 
Dr. William Patten has been appointed Professor of Biology in the 
University of North Dakota, at Grand Forks, Notth Dakota. 
Wassili Uljanin, the well-known embryologist, died at Warsaw, 
February 5 th, in his 49th year, 
Philip Stohr, formerly of Wiirzburg, has been called to the pro- 
fessorship of anatomy at the University of Zurich. 
Dr. Drasch, privat-docent in Leipzig, has been called to the Uni- 
versity of Graz, as professor extraordinary of histology and embry- 
ology. 
Dr. J. Worm-Muller, professor of physiology in the University of 
Christiania, died of pneumonia, January nth, aged 54- 
Dr. F. G. Gade is demonstrator of microscopy in the University of 
Christiania. 
