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regret to read in the 'Athenæum' that "an eminent man of science has passed away in, titular Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at Munich since 1896, when he resigned his professorship at Erlangen. Prof. Selenka, who was born at Brunswick in 1842, devoted his attention chiefly to the Echinodermata and vertebrate animals. He twice undertook a journey to the Sunda Islands and Java to study the anthropoid Apes. His most important works are 'Zoologische Studien' and 'Studien über die Entwicklungsgeschichte der Tiere.'"

have received from Oxford the 'Thirteenth Annual Report of the Delegates of the University Museum (for 1900).' Anthropology is well represented at Oxford. The late Prof. Rolleston upheld the science in his day, and Dr. E.B. Tylor is the present Keeper of the Museum, which contains the Pitt-Rivers collection. Among the many donations to this grand collection, we read:—"A special, if melancholy and pathetic, interest attaches to the collection of West African objects formed by the late Miss Mary Kingsley, through whose untimely death the Museum has lost a sincere friend. It was the wish of this gifted and courageous traveller that her West African specimens should eventually come to Oxford, and her brother, Mr. Charles G. Kingsley, to whom the specimens were bequeathed in the first instance, most kindly transferred them at once to the Museum. Amongst them will be noticed several specimens of the now extinct artistic bronze-work of Benin, which has created so much stir of recent years, since the punitive expedition first brought these forgotten treasures to light; also a fetish figure, which is probably the finest of its kind in any Museum." The Report of the "Hope Professor of Zoology" is restricted to entomological acquisitions, of which a very large number are now being acquired and arranged under his direction.

British naturalists feel an interest in the now much restricted area in which Papilio machaon is found in England. Mr. C.W. Dale has contributed an article to the last issue of the 'Entomologist's Monthly Magazine,' entitled "Historical Notes on Papilio machaon in England," which supplies a very useful and timely information on the subject.