1074 Scientific News. (Oct, 18% 
— Mr. -Arthur F. Gray has compiled a complete list of th — 
scientific papers of Thomas Bland, F.GS., from 1852 to 18% ~ 
printed at Salem, Mass. The entries are seventy-two in number, 
and Mr. Gray acknowledges the material aid of Mr. Bland in the 
preparation of the list. It is to be hoped that the labors of one 
of our most distinguished conchologists, may go on and necessi- 
tate the issue of a future addendum, as long and as creditable as 
the original list itself. | 
— The fifteenth annual report of the American Museum of 
Natural History shows increased money receipts, increased num- 
ber of visitors, with valuable additions to the collections of mon- 
keys and apes, including the gorilla and chimpanzee, and fft 
other monkeys from all parts of the world. Progress in the om 
thological, entomological, conchological as well as archeological 
departments is reported. 
— Professor Flower has the title of “ Director” of the Natural 
History Museum instead of “Superintendent,” which was E 
R. Owen’s: official designation. The staff will consist of ' 
keepers of departments (botany, geology, mineralogy, zoology 
two assistant keepers, eleven first-class and fourteen second-class 
assistants, a staff which would appear to be ample for the work 10 
be done. 
— The fourth number of the Bulletin of the Chicago rete Y. 
-minifera, including three forms identified by Professor Leidy, 
states that these forms are still living in the Atlantic ocean. 
— In another direction equally useful, though differentin ci 
acter, is Mr. E. Haworth’s contribution to the geology. 
‚lead and zinc mining district of Cherokee county, en rte 
sented to the Kansas State University, with an apeli¢ ero 
degree of master of science; the author being a rest en 
e question as to the authorship of The Ves pon 
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— It has been reported that Professor D. S. Jordan, ogical cok 
ito- London to take charge of some part of the ichthyol > as usto 
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‘in Berlin on September 25th, of the present year. -punt ofthe 
invasion of the cholera in southern Europe. 
lection of the British Museum. Professor Jordan authorize, that 
state that the report is untrue. We congratulate our ® 
this is the fact. f e 
.— The Triennial Congress of Geologists was to have 
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ed to the corresponding time next year 
