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gathered many important and interesting data, in Switzerland and 
Italy in 1863, European Turkey in 1869, and in Russia and the 
Ural mountains in 1872. Herr Von Hochstetter was elected 
president of the Vienna Geographical Society in 1866, and a 
member of the Academy of Sciences in 1870. e became in- 
tendant of the Vienna Museum of Natural History in 1876. 
Among his works are “ Carlsbad, a Geological Study,” “ The 
Mammoth Fossil Birds of New Zealand,” “ The Geology of New 
Zealand,” “The Palaeontology of New Zealand,” “ A Voyage in 
Roumania,” “ The Geology of the Eastern Part of Turkey in 
Europe,” and “ Across the Urals.” 
— The distinguished Danish entomologist, Professor J. C. 
Schiédte, died at Copenhagen early in June, aged sixty-nine years. 
He was the author of a beautifully illustrated essay on the mouth- 
parts of certain Isopod Crustacea, and especially of numerous 
memoirs on the transformations of the Coleoptera, published in 
successive volumes of the zoological journal which he so care- 
fully edited. This is the continuation of Kroyer’s Naturhisk- 
torisk Tidsskrift, and for the value of its contents and the beauty of 
its copper and steel plates, is second, perhaps, to scarcely any 
other periodical published in Europe, unless we of course except 
the Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie. We had the plea- 
sure, in 1872, of visiting Professor Schiödte, then in charge of 
the entomological department of the Royal Zoölogical Museum 
of Copenhagen, and well remember the superb collection illus- 
trating the transformation of beetles which he had amassed. In 
a entomology loses one of its most careful and able 
udents. 
merica, that the marine laboratory of the Johns Hopkins Uni- 
versity has for six years been open to all qualified persons. “I 
should have added that we had reference to beginners rather than 
advanced students, supposing that the Johns Hopkins University 
hool was open to the latter alone.—Èps : 
i — In an article entitled “Pile-dwellings on hill-tops f in Nature 
or June 19, Mr. S. E. Peale gives a new and rather prosaic cause 
or reason for building houses on piles, ze. “ the absolute neces- 
Sity of keeping out of reach of the ever-present pig!” This ap- 
p's to the hill-tribes of Assam and vicinity; these pile-builders 
Pad 4 probably descended from the pre-Aryans of the = 
om Assam to the Indus. There is no building-stone where the 
Piles are used, 
— Through the efforts of M. Marion, the mayor and municipal 
