1894.] Scientific News. 907 
9. Holders of the Association's table will be expected to give due 
credit in published results of investigations carried on at the Associa- 
tion's table. 
The death of the venerable D. C. Danielssen of Bergen, Norway, on 
July 13th, removes one of the ablest of the Scandanavian systematists, 
Most of his zoologieal work was done on the marine Invertebrates and 
was of an exceedingly careful character. He was besides a physician 
in regular practice, was the chief of the Leprosy Hospital at Bergen, 
and since 1864 has been the president of the Bergen Museum. He 
was born in 1815. 
Gustave Honoré Cotteau, the well known paleontologist is dead, 
aged seventy-six. His principal work was done in the Echinodermata, 
of which subject he was the leading student in France. 
Two of the American Arctic exploring expeditions have come to 
grief. The vessel of the Chicago newspaper enterprise under Wellman 
was crushed in the ice and some of the party returned to the Spitzber- 
gen islands, while the leader with others was picked up and landed at 
Tromsoe, Norway. The Cook expedition which consisted mostly of 
scientific men, went in an iron vessel in oppostion to the advice of ex- 
perienced arctic navigators. In her first contact with the ice a hole 
thirty feet long was torn in her side. She subsequently ran on a rock near 
to Sukkertappen and subsequently sank. The passengers were 
brought to Labrador by a passing vessel, but lost all their property. 
The Salt Lake Literary and Scientific Association, a body incorpo- 
rated for scientific pursuits, with headquarters at Salt Lake City, 
Utah, has recently endowed a chair of Geology in the University of 
Utah. The endowment is made in the handsome sum of $60,000, the 
proceeds of which are to be used in the support of the professorship. 
The chair has been named the “ Deseret Professorship of Geology,” 
and Dr. James E. Talmage has been appointed to the position. The 
rich collections of the Deseret Museum, belonging to the Salt Lake 
Literary and Scientific Association, have been placed at the disposal 
of the growing University of Utah. Such a movement is commenda- 
ble. Utah isa rich field for the geologist, and any substantial en- 
couragement of the science there is an effort wisely directed. 
Dr. Chas. L. Edwards, lately of the University of Texas has been 
eleeted Professor of Biology in the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, 
Ohio. 
