262 Personal and Scientific J^e-ivs. 
Prof. Marsh gives a summary in the London Geological 
Magazine of his description of Stegosaurus, a Jurassic, aquatic 
reptile belonging to the Dinosaurians and allied to the ornithop- 
oda, a group intermediate between birds and true reptiles. This 
animal v/as not large and was covered with bony plates, and its tail 
was armed with spines formidable for its size, ranged in pairs 
along the tail, and probably used in the same manner as are those 
of the existing sting-ray. 
The Swindling Naturalist. I take pleasure in inform- 
ing you that the "Swindling Naturalist" has finally gotten his 
just deserts. Six weeks ago, he stole from the University of 
Cincinnati a number of microscopic objectives, and made good his 
escape. Recognizing the importance of securing him, our city 
detectives were put on his track. He was traced through In- 
diana and Kentucky to Nashville, Tenn., and finally appre- 
hended. On being returned to this city and indicted for grand 
larceny, he pleaded guilty, and has been sentenced to spend 
five years in the Ohio penitentiary. The scientific world is, 
for a time, well rid of him. He passed here under the name 
O. L. vSyrski, and ( after capture ) freely admitted his identity 
Avith'the "Swindling Geologist" of numerous aliases. 
If you can let me know the name of the owner of the 
Chenu's Conchyliologie and the Wales objective, mentioned on 
page 68 of the first number of the Geologist, I may be able 
to furnish information which will lead to the recovery of the 
property. Yours respectfully, 
Chas. H. Gilbert, 
Cincinnati^ O., March 5, 1888. Univ. of Cin. 
[Note. This man has been engaged in tliese petty thefts for five or six 
years, and has been published and described repeatedly by the press of 
the country. He \vas apprehended about two years ago in Wisconsin, 
and served six months imprisonment in the Elkhorn jail, but he immedi- 
ately resumed his old methods of obtaining a livelihood. Such rascals 
are not peculiar to America. About six months since Mr. Quaritch, of 
London, advertised for the apprehension of a thief, supposed to have 
come from Germany who had stolen from his stock of books. Ed.] 
The Secretary of the American Committee of the In- 
ternational Congress of Geologists has issued a call for a meeting 
of the committee at Murray Hill hotel, New York, at noon, 
Monday, April 2nd., the object being to receive the delayed 
reports and to complete the work preliminary to the next Con- 
gress which meets in London on the 17th of next September. 
