NEWS. 



The following appointments have recently been made : — Dr. Cleveland 

 Abbe, jun., to be professor of geology in Western Maryland College ; Drs. J. L. 

 Ames, F. A. Woods, R. T. Atkinson, and F. R. Stubbs, to be assistants in the 

 department of histology and embryology at Harvard Medical School, conse- 

 quent on the resignations of Drs. H. P. Quincey and Elisha H. Gregory, jun. ; 

 R. T. Baker, assistant-curator of the Technological Museum, Sydney, N.S.W., 

 to be curator of that institution ; Dr. F. J. Becker of Prague to be professor of 

 mineralogy at Vienna University ; Dr. Boehmig as professor extraordinarius of 

 zoology at Graz, Austria ; Dr. A. Biihler to be privat-docent in anatomy at 

 Wiirzburg ; Dr. Capitan to succeed Gabriel de Mortillet as professor of pre- 

 historic anthropology at the School of Anthropology, Paris ; Dr. R. H. Chittenden 

 to be director of the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University, in succession 

 to Prof. G. H. Brush resigned ; Dr. Friedrich Dahl to be assistant in the 

 Zoological Museum, Berlin ; Dr. G. P. Eaton to be assistant in osteology in 

 the Peabody Museum ; Dr. H. Eggeling to be privat-docent and assistant in 

 anatomy at Strassburg University ; Dr. Marcus S. Farr to be curator of the 

 zoological collection of the New York State Museum, Albany ; F. G. Hopkins, 

 late demonstrator in physiology at Guy's Hospital, to the new lectureship in 

 chemical physiology at Cambridge University ; Dr. Georg Karsten as professor 

 extraordinarius of botany at Kiel University ; Gregorius A. Kogevnikov as 

 privat-docent in zoology at Moscow University ; Dr. Fr. Kopsch as privat-docent 

 in anatomy at Berlin University ; Dr. Kriechbaumer to be curator of the 

 zoological collections at Munich ; Dr. W. Kulczycki as privat-docent in zoology 

 at Lemberg University ; Dr. Ernst Mehnert of Strassburg to succeed the late 

 Prof. Endres as privat-docent in anatomy at Halle University; Dr. Heinrich 

 Monke of Breslau to the Geological Survey at Berlin ; Dr. Lubor Niederle to the 

 newly-founded chair of Slavonic archaeology and ethnology at the Bohemian 

 University, Prague ; C. Sauvageau as professor of botany to the Faculty of 

 Sciences, Dijon ; Dr. Ernst Vanhoeffen to be assistant in the Zoological Institute 

 at Kiel ; Swale Vincent to be Sharpey physiological scholar and chief assistant 

 in the physiological laboratory at University College, London ; Dr. Franz 

 Werner, well known for his work on " Coloration and Regeneration in Lizards," 

 as privat-docent in zoology in Vienna University ; Dr. A. Zalevski, as privat- 

 docent in botany at Lemberg University. 



Professor DArcy Thompson, C.B., of University College, Dundee, has been 

 appointed scientific member of the Fishery Board for Scotland, vacant by the 

 resignation of Sir John Murray. 



Prof. Ray Lankester has resigned the Linacre Professorship of Comparative 

 Anatomy in the University of Oxford. The past students of Prof. W. F. R. 

 Weldon, of University College, London, are signing a testimonial to their former 

 teacher in view of his candidature for the vacant chair. Among others whose 

 names we have heard mentioned as candidates are Mr. F. E. Beddard, prosector 

 to the Zoological Society of London ; Mr. G. C. Bourne, who for many years 



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