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the success of the great Chicago world’s fair of the following 
year. On the contrary the more perfect the first display, the bet- 
ter will the departments of archeology and history be represented 
at our own; for the Spanish government has generously proposed 
to transfer a large part of its treasures to our buildings during 
the six months which intervene between the closing of the one 
and the opening of the other. All persons having collections of 
archeological, ethnological (mumismatic), or historical material 
connected with the history of this country both before the dis- 
covery and after the discovery, up to 1750, are urgently invited 
to loan it under the safe guarantees offered by the circular of the 
Spanish government, forwhich apply to Senor Campillo, Sec’y of 
the Spanish legation at Washington. 
Ir APPEARS THAT GEOLOGICAL FRAUDS are not confined to this 
country, as the following extract from a late number of Nature 
proves. ‘‘A notice which will be read with interest by all owners 
of gems, has been issued by Dr. A. Brezina, of the Natural His- 
tory Museum of Vienna. It relates to the doings of a young 
man who on September 26 contrived to conceal himself in the 
department just before the time for the closing of the Museum. 
He was caught and found to be armed with a revolver, and to 
have in his possession files and other implements. He had also 
in his possession nearly 600 gems, some of them cut, but the 
majority in their natural state. He has a passport, in which he is 
described as Hugo Kahn, of Berlin, but he has also called himself 
Krony, Kronek, Kornak and Kronicsalsky. His age is 24, he 
measures in hight 170 cm., he is slender, has a longish handsome 
face, is of a brownish complexion, has dark hair, grey eyes and a 
light brown beard, of feeble growth. Upon the whole he is an 
attractive looking person. He has made several journeys in Ger- 
many, France, Switzerland and Italy; and between the middle of 
last July and the beginning of September he travelled through 
Pyrmont, Kms, Strassbourg, Basel, Milan, Genoa, Nice, Monaco, 
Genoa and Venice to Vienna. Most of the gems (the names of 
which with the exception of a rock-crystal, he does not know), 
he professes to have bought from a barber in Marseilles. As it is 
important that the former owners should be known, Dr. Brezina 
prints a list of the gems, with a request that any one who has in- 
formation about them will communicate with him.” Evidently 
this man is not nearly so finished and thorough-going a scamp as 
the one lately exhibited in the rogue’s gallery of the Grotoaisr. 
The narrative given above well illustrates the danger to which all 
costly and valuable collections are exposed, when they are opened 
to the public, and the necessity of the utmost vigilance for their 
protection. 
THE LATE Dr. P. HERBERT CARPENTER was the fourth son of 
the late Dr. W. B. Carpenter, C. B., F. R. 8. He was found dead 
in his dressing-room on Oct. 21. At the inquest it was found 
