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receipt, giving the names of known species and full credit to the 
collectors of all that are novel or interesting. Every gathering 
should be marked with its habitat, the date of collection, and the 
name and address of the sender. Address specimens and letters to 
Edward Potts, 228 S. Third street, Philadelphia. 
—We are glad to learn, that Dr. Shufeldt of the army is about 
to resume his scientific work at the Army Medical Museum of 
Washington. It is the intention of the recently appointed Sur- 
geon-General, General Robert Murray, U. S. Army, to place Dr. 
Shufeldt in the position he formerly held in that institution, and 
his duties in that field will commence at an early date. 
Dr. Shufeldt has during the year just past made very exten- 
sive collections of vertebrates and invertebrates in the southern 
part of the State of Louisiana. This collection amounted to 
Some 3000 specimens, and coming as they do from a section of 
Our country so little known and worked by the naturalist, they 
are particularly valuable, It is to be sincerely hoped that Dr. 
Shufeldt will be enabled to work up his collection, and duly give 
us a report upon the zoology of the section in question. 
— Charles Leslie McKay, U.S. Signal Officer at Nushegak, 
Alaska, was drowned in Bristol bay, last April, while on a col- 
lecting excursion. Mr. McKay was engaged in a zoological sur- 
vey of the Bristol Bay region under the auspices of the National 
useum, and had already sent in important collections. He was 
one of the most active of the younger naturalists, having given 
especial attention to Ichthyology. His only scientific publica- 
tionis a review of the Centrarchide, inthe Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. for 
1881. This paper was an abridgment of a detailed monograph, 
the manuscripts of which have been destroyed by the burning of 
the museum of the Indiana university. Mr. McKay wasa native 
of Wisconsin, a graduate of Indiana university, 26 years of age 
and unmarried.—D. S. F. 
— In the recent death of Dr. W. Kowalevsky, palzontological 
Science has lost one of its most able cultivators. He was profes- 
Sor in the University of Moscow, and was of the purest and most 
advanced Muscovitic stock. His contributions to vertebrate pal- 
ontology mostly appeared in the German Palzontographica, and 
Were of a high order of excellence. He anticipated several En- 
Ssh and American writers in several generalizations as to the 
descent of the ungulate Mammalia, among the rest in the gene- 
Sy of the horses. 
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_ Biorocicar Society oF WasuHincToN, Nov. 30.—Communica- 
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