632 The American Naturalist. [July, 
al,and in 1877 he received the Copley gold medal from the Royal 
Society of London. He is a member of many of the leading scientific 
societies of the world, and was President of the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science in 1854. In 1872 the University of 
Munich gave him the degree of Ph. D., and in 1886 at the Harvard 
celebration he was awarded the degree of LL. D. 
Professor Dana's principal works have been on Corals and Crus- 
tacea, and in Geology and Mineralogy. His text-books of the latter 
subjects are so well known as to require only mention here. 
The Wistar Institute of the University of Pennsylvania. 
—This important addition to the many courses of the University is 
the gift of General Isaac J. Wistar, a son of Dr. Caspar Wistar, one 
of the earliest professors of anatomy at this institution. The preserva- 
tion and exhibition of the Wistar Anatomieal Museum is the princi- 
pal object of the institute. There will also be added to it a complete 
collection of all objects necessary for the successful study of biology, 
anatomy and the historical development of the organs in man. ‘The 
department will be so thoroughly equipped from a scientific stand- 
point that it will be used not only for purposes of exhibition but also 
for practical teaching. Advanced research will be the most striking 
feature of the work. 
In connection with the institute there will be established a course of 
lectures which will give graduates of the medical department opportu- 
nities for post-graduate courses and deeper research in the advanced 
stages of anatomy and biology. 
A periodical will be published, in which these subjects will be treated 
by men who have become celebrated because of their knowledge of 
these important subjects. In this building will be placed the present 
museum of anatomy, known as the Wistar and Horner Museum, 
which was presented to the University by the widow of Dr. Caspar 
Wistar, which gift was afterward supplemented by those of Mr. Hor- 
ner. In addition to this the museum now used in connection with the 
Biological School will be placed in the building as soon as it is com- 
pleted. 
It has been decided to place the management of this institute under 
the direction of a Board of Managers elected by the Trustees of the 
University. In order that the memory of the founder of this depart- 
ment may be perpetuated in fitting recognition of the appreciation felt 
at the benevolence of General Wistar, it has been settled that one of 
the managers shall be a descendant of the Wistar family. Thė other 
