318 Proceedings of Scientific Societies. [ March, 
— A monograph on the recent Brachiopoda by the late Thomas 
Davidson, LL.D., F.R.S., edited by Agnes Crane, will be issued 
in three parts, with thirty quarto plates, during 1886, and will form 
a separate volume of the Transactions of the Linnæan Society of 
London. 
— The Academy of Natural Science in Philadelphia has, by the 
death of the widow of the late Mr. H. N. Johnson, come into pos- 
session of the entire estate as residuary legatee. It is valued at 
over $50,000, and the available annual income is nearly $1500. 
— Dr. Daniel G. Brinton, of Philadelphia, has been announced 
as the Laureate of the Société Américaine de France for 1886, and 
awarded the medal of the society for his work on the native 
tongues of America. 
— Dr. Walter Flight, chemist and mineralogist, and assistant 
in the mineralogical department of the British Museum, died 
Nov. 6, aged forty-four. 
— J. J. de Tschudi, a Swiss naturalist and traveler, author of a 
work on Peru translated into English, died in January, at the age 
of sixty-eight. : 
— Professor John Morris, who held the chair of geology in Uni- 
versity college, London, died in January, aged seventy-five. 
— P. Harting, the distinguished professor of zoology 10 the 
_ University of Utrecht, died Dec. 7. 
— Erratum —On p. 171, line 27, for Orthopod read Arthropod. 
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PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
InpranA AcApemy oF ScreNnces.—In accordance with the call 
issued by the Brookville Society of Natural History, a number 0! 
dianapolis, on Tues+ 
day, Dec. 29, 1885, at 2 o'clock p.m. J. P. D. John, P.D., of ee 
ogee ike Re Reh na A Th ae Sa ee 
Sip ese Sern Se i te ae is = a Se, Dee 
~ They reported a constitution and by-laws which were adopted. 
The name selected is Indiana Academy of Science. The objects 
_ of the academy are “ scientific research and the diffusion of knowl- 
SE EE Sep ET, 
J. P. D. John, DePauw university, Greencastle, Rev- 
"i Amos W. Butler, Brookville; 
Toi ‘J Indianapolis, all of whom were elected. 
Papers were read giving, as far as possible, a statement of the 
