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fiord, the Tertiary deposits of the vicinity, "id make a collection of 
the plants and animals. 
Professor L. L. Dyche, at the head of the department of Zoology 
and Taxidermy at the State University of Kansas, is the official nat- 
uralist of the expedition, and will go the full round. He will make a 
specialty of collecting Birds and Mammals. He will have under 
him Mr.S. P. Orth of Oberlin, O., botanist, and B. F. Stanton of 
Oberlin, assistant naturalist, to make general collections. Mr. E. A. 
Mellhenney of Louisana, goes as an ornithologist. 
Professer C. E. Hite of Philadelphia with three assistants is to stop 
offin Labrador for general exploration. Professor E. P. Lyon of 
Chicago goes for the general student of biology. The expedition ex- 
pects to return about September 20th.—G. F. W RIGET. 
The Forty-third Meeting of the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science, will he held in Brooklyn, New 
York, August 15 to 24,1894. The following officers will bein charge: 
President, Daniel G. Brinton, Media, Pa. 
Vice-Presidents, A.—Mathameties and Astronomy, George C. Com- 
stock, Madison, Wis.; B.— Physics, Wm. A. Rogers, Waterville, Me. ; 
C.—Chemistry, T. H. Norton, Cincinnati, O. ; D.—Mechanical Science 
and Engineering, Mansfield Merriman, South Bethlehem, Pa.; E.— 
Geology and Geography, Samuel Calvin, Iowa City, Iowa; F.—Zool- 
ogy, S. H. Seudder, Cambridge, Mass. (Resigned) ; G.— Botany, L. M. 
Underwood, Greencastle, Ind.; H.—Anthropology, Franz Boaz, New 
York; I.—Economie Suse and Statistics, Henry Farquhar, Wash- 
Siete, D. C. 
Permanent Secretary, F. W. Putnam, Cambridge (office, Salem), 
Mass. 
General Secretary, H. L. Fairchild, Rochester, N. Y. 
Secretary of the Council, James Lewis Howe, Louisville, Ky. 
Dr. August von Klipstein, formerly Professor of Mineralogy at 
Giesson, died, A pril 16, 1894, in his 93d year. 
The news of the appointment of Sidney J. Heckson of Downing Col- 
lege, Cambridge, to the Chair of Zoology at Owens College, Man- 
chester, will prove welcome to his many friends. 
Science in Persia! "The Shah has instituted a zoological garden. 
Dr. J eim Hyrtl, the anatomist, died, July 17, 1894. He was born 
on Dec. 7, 1811, at Eisenstadt, Hungary, and studied at Vienna, 
where he staked, at the age of twenty-one, the position of preparator. 
He was chosen in 1837 as professor in the University of Prague, and 
