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pointed to draw up the necessary regulations, and to call a future 
meeting for organization, 2. Pickman Mann, Secretary. 
— The death of Dr. Hermann Schlegel, director of the Zoolog- 
ical Museum of the University of Leyden, is announced. He was 
born in Saxony. Under his direction the Leyden Museum 
became one of the most important iñ Europe, and its collection of 
skeletons is one of the finest known. It is especially rich in the 
forms of the Dutch Malaysian colonies. Dr. Schlegel published 
a number of zodlogical works, among the most important of 
which are the catalogues of the museum. He was distinguished 
for his carefulness, and for his extreme conservatism in questions 
of nomenclature. : 
— During the past season was founded in Providence the 
Rhode Island Entomological Society, with Mr. Calder as prest- 
dent, and F. E. Gray, secretary. The society holds monthly 
meetings, | ; L 
— Mr. J.L. Wortman has been appointed anatomist of the 
Army Medical Museum at Washington. | 
PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
BroLocicaL Society oF WaAsHINGTON, Feb. 23. _ Comte 
tions were presented by Elliott Coues on the present ed 
North American ornithology ; by Charles D. Walcott ent! 3 
Further remarks on a rock specimen from Maine, coha 
corals (with specimen) ; by Marshall McDonald on natural ca 
influencing the movements of fish in rivers; and by Lester 
Ward on the diamond willow (with specimen). . ‘ 
New York Acapemy or Sciences, Feb, 4.—The oie 
paper was presented: The botany, geology and resour a nii 
a Far song by the Northern Pacific railroad (illus: 
with lantern), by John S. Newberry. Re 
Feb. 11.—The o papers were read: Theories i i 
to the causes of the recent red skies, by John K. Rees; ae 
rial notice will be read by the secretary of the late vice-p 
of the academy, Dr. Benjamin N. Martin. 
_ Boston Society or Naturat History, Feb. 0" ae its 
Bouvé read a paper on the genesis of the Boston pe ‘gi 
rock formations ; and Professor N. S. Shaler discussed 
of kames, — 
Feb. 20.—Dr. T. Sterry Hunt spoke of the Cambr 
North America; and the president described the fossil lary : 
the Triassic rocks of the Connecticut valley- ER 
American GEOGRAPHICAL Society, Feb. 18.— Mr. pan 4 
= pods 
eae from 
Browne, Jr., delivered a lecture entitled, The growing | 
! chile, in the Pacific (illustrated with views). 
