330 Scientific News. (March, 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Professor Miiller’s widow, it is proposed that the interest of th 
memorial sum shall be given preferentially to some descendant o 
Professor Müller who shall devote himself to the study of naturi l 
philosophy, or else to some other needy and worthy studentof 
that science who shall have been educated at the Public School of ; 
Lippstadt. The realization of these wishes will depend on tt - 
amount of funds to be collected, which shall be employed accom | 
ing to the final decision of a committee composed of the prov 
ional one at Lippstadt and twice its number of donors fom 
abroad. The committee purposes to send a biography with por l 
trait of the late Müller to all those who have signified a real intet 
est in the aforesaid foundation. wi 
The editors of the AMERICAN NATURALIST very han E 
dorse this appeal, and will take charge of and forward on 
treasurer of the German committee any subscriptions they Het i 
mann Miiller. oldas 
— Professor Richard Owen, who is now eighty rt edi 
resigned the superintendency of the Natural Histo e 
ofthe British Museum at South Kensington. Asa p eT 
genius and indefatigable scholarship, he has been ma! a 
Sir Richard Owen is still activein palæontological p | 
logical studies. Some idea of his industry may be fewer 
the fact that he published, between 1830 and 187 Sie Societys $ 
368 papers, the titles of which are given in the ein to tit 
list, and since then he has contributed several ia 
Transactions of the Royal and the Geological, : 
Zoölogical Societies, besides his Comparative Anatea iis 
S 
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by “ The Auk, a Quarterly Journal of Ornithology i 
two first words should be prefixed to what is othe eds of Eng 
title we are at a loss to understand. Of the h a 
names of birds, the one selected seems to persis title of 
vision to be the most unfortunate. A bi-sylla e ‘4 evi 
respectable bird still in the land of the living pee: name did 
editorial taste. We question whether ge auk. 
have something to do with the extinction "a «nes to US 
ring its awkward, gawky cognomen, The Auh me Jong ™' 
ever, as fat and juicy as ever was its prototype—an® . 
“ wobble” ! 
