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the American maxim that a museum is a collection of labels illus- 
trated by specimens. The paper consists mainly of a reprint of 
the thoughtfully prepared labels which he has attached to his col- 
lection and will serve as an admirable model for educational 
museums. 
A SPECIAL ROOM 80 FEET BY 40, to be termed the ''Barran- 
deum" has been appropriated in the New Royal Bohemian Museum 
for the exhibition of the collection of fossils made by the late 
Dr. J. Barrande, illustrating his "Systeme Silurien de la Bo- 
heme;" and we learn that the "Barrande Fund' founded by Dr. 
Anton Fritsch for the further encouragement of the work that 
ceased at Barrande's death, has now reached the sum of 10,000 
florins. The interest on this fund, which has been raised by 
voluntary contributions, will be available next year for the endow- 
ment of research in the Silurian formation in Bohemia, and it is 
hoped that some paleontologist will be thereby induced to study 
the smaller organisms of the system. 
The Texas State Geological Survey has recently added 
to its working force, as chemist. Dr. W. H. Melville, who has 
been for ten ^-ears connected with the United States geological 
survey, and, in the department of paleontology, Mr. G. D. Har- 
ris, late assistant in Tertiary invertebrate paleontology on the 
same survey. Prof. Cragin's engagement with the Texas survey 
has recently been extended to February, 1893, his work including 
chiefly vertebrate and Cretaceous invertebrate paleontology. 
Dr. (tEORGE a. Kcenig, of the University of Pennsylvania, has 
been appointed professor of chemistry at the Michigan Minnig 
school, Houghton. 
The Next Annual Meeting of the A. A. A. S. will be held 
in August, 1893, at Madison, Wis. Prof. William Harkness, of 
Washington, D. C, was elected president; Prof. F. W. Putnam, 
of Cambridge, Mass., permanent secretary; T. H. Norton, of Cin- 
cinnati, general secretary, and H. L. Fairchild, of Rochester, 
secretary of the council. It was announced that an anthropo- 
logical congress would be held at the Columbian Exposition dur- 
ing the week following the next annual meeting of the A. A. A. 
S. , with representatives of every American trilie, from Terra del 
Fuego to the Esquimaux of the Arctic zone. As an outgrowth of 
this congress, it is meant to found a museum of ethnology at Chi- 
cago, materials for whicii are now being collected by the ship 
load in Yucatan, Ecuador, Peru, Chile and elsewhere. A com- 
mittee was appointed to secure rooms for the various sections of 
the A. A. A. S. to be used as headquarters during the entire pe- 
riod of the exposition, each room to be in the building the con- 
tents of which are most closely- allied to the branch of science 
represented. 
Charles S. Prosser, late op the National Museum, Wash- 
ington, has been elected to the professorship of natural history 
