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Mr. Oerakl H. Thayer — "Nature Camouflage, the Link between 

 Zoology and Art" 



Dr. Carlos E. Cummings, Secretary of the Buffalo Society of 

 Natural Sciences, is expected to discuss the application of photography 

 to the work of preparation. 



Mr. Frank J. Myers, Research Associate of llotifera, has presented 

 to the Department of J^ower Invertebrates a fine Stephenson dis.secting 

 microscope of binocular i)attern, with a full outfit of apochromatic ob- 

 jectives and equii)ment for carrying on research work in Rotifera, 

 Protozoa and other microscopic forms of life. Mr. Myers is an e.xpert 

 on Rotifera, and in conjunction with Dr. Harring of the United States 

 National Museum is engaged in writing an exhau.stive monograph on the 

 American species of this most interesting group. He has given abun- 

 dantly of his time and energies toward increasing the Museum collection 

 of mounted Rotifers, which bids fair to be one of the finest in the world. 

 Rotifera, or ''wheel-animalcules," are miimte, top-like creatures that 

 swim rapidh' about in j)onds, feeding upon thousands of microscopic 

 animals and plants w^hich they sweep into their mouths by means of 

 circlets of hair-like projections, that they bear on their heads. The 

 peculiar motion of these hairs gives the effect of a rotating wheel, hence 

 the name. 



The Army Medical Museum at Washington has adopted the "slide- 

 tite " cases, invented by Mr. Beers, for the storage of valuable .specimens, 

 and to date has installed seventy of these cases. 



On May 17th, a meeting in honor of Madame Curie will be held 

 under the ausjiices of the New ^'ork Academy of Sciences, The American 

 Mu.seum of Natural History and the New York Mineralogical Club. 



On April 21st, Dr. Goddard left for Washington, where he attended 

 a meeting of the National Research Council. On April 23rd, he sailed 

 for Peni, where he will conduct archaeological and ethnological investi- 

 gations preliminary to an cxjjedition to be .sent out a little later. 



A cable dispatch h::s been received by President Osi)orn, announcing 

 that Maior Leonard Darwin, fourth son of Charles Darwin, will attend 



