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late Dr. Townsend Glover, by C. V. Riley. 2. On insect collect- 
ing at Pt. Barrow, Alaska, by John Murdoch. 3. On the insect 
fauna of the District of Columbia, by E. A. Schwarz. 4. On 
the so-called “ mistaken parasite,” by L. O. Howard. 
The active membership list of the society numbers over tae 
names. Meetings are held on the first Thursday evening of eac 
month.—Z. O. Howard, corresponding sccretary. 
—The only American sea-side laboratory now open to 
students and investigators in general is that sustained by the 
Boston Society of Natural History at Annisquam, Mass. The 
session begins June 20th, and closes September 7th, 1884. 
The work in the laboratory will be under the immediate care of 
Mr. J. S. Kingsley during June and July, and Mr. B. H. Van 
eck, assistant in the laboratory of the Boston Society of Natural 
History, during August. 
ications for entrance should be made to Professor A. Hy- 
att, custodian of the Society of Natural History, Boston, Mass. 
—The final outburst of the Krakatoa volcano took place at 12 
minutes to noon on August 27th of last year, and a great tidal 
was created in the Straits of Sunda, At 1.30 p. m. of 
the same day a wave was felt at Pointe de Galle, in Ceylon, 3000 
distant, and at 2.15 p. m. one was felt at Mauritius, 
ers distant.. Calculating from these observations, 
de la Croix, a French physicist, estimates the velocity of the 
molecular disturbance through the water of the ocean to be 2000 
kilometers per hour, 550 meters per second higher than the rec- 
°gnized velocity of sound in air.—Zhe English Mechanic. 
D —The total amount appropriated to the French Institute in the 
; the year 1884, is 720,000 francs, of which the Aca- 
p Française receives only 98,000 francs, and the Academie des 
as much at 203,000 francs. Every member of each sec- 
: Uon of the Institute receives 1500 francs a year, the permanent 
of each section, 6000 francs; the remainder is for 
_ Work, Memoirs, prizes, etc. 
=M. Girard has bequeathed to the French Association for the 
of Science, a capital sum of 100,000 francs, the 
: meat st Which is to be devoted every five years to the 
researches into the antiquity of man, with especial - 
3 face to geological time.— The Academy. 
— 
ndon. Allen Thompson published only one 
nes of Physiology” (1847), but he wrote many 
