NEWS. 



The following appointments have recently been made : — Elmer D. Ball, to be 

 assistant entomologist at the Colorado Experiment Station ; Dr. J. Behrens, of 

 Carlsruhe, to be bacteriologist to the newly-founded biological section for agri- 

 culture and forestry at Berlin ; J. P. Blanton, to be president of the University 

 of Idaho, and director of its Experimental Station ; Dr. L. Bordas, to be chief of 

 zoological work in the faculty of science at Marseilles ; Antonio Borzi, to be 

 professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at Palermo University ; Mr. 

 Thomas Bowhill, F.E.C.V.S., author of "Manual of Bacteriological Technique," 

 to be bacteriologist to the Glamorgan County Council ; Karl Brischke, as 

 director of the Botanical Garden in Thorn ; C. W. Burkett, to be associate professor 

 of agriculture at the New Hampshire College ; Dr. John M. Clarke, to be state 

 palaeontologist of New York ; Dr. Dannenberg, to be professor of mineralogy 

 and geology at the Mining Academy in Clausthal ; Prof. J. R. Ainsworth 

 Davis, as additional examiner in zoology in the University of Edinburgh ; Dr. 

 Rudolf Disselhorst, to be professor of animal physiology at Halle University ; 

 Dr. Eugen Dubois {Pithecanthropus), to be professor of geology at Amsterdam 

 University ; Dr. E. P. Felt, to succeed the late J. A. Lintner, as state ento- 

 mologist of New York ; M. T. French, to be professor of agriculture at Idaho 

 College and Experimental Station ; Max von Frey, from assistant professor to 

 full professor of physiology at Zurich University ; Mr. Gravier, to be assistant 

 in the Paris Museum of Natural History in the' place of the late Felix Bernard ; 

 Dr. D. Frazer Harris, to be lecturer in physiology at St. Andrews University ; 

 Dr. Hettner, of Tubingen, to be professor of geography at Wurzburg University ; 

 Dr. G. Bertram Hunt, as assistant in the department of pathological histology 

 at the University of London ; Dr. Ernst Kalkowsky, to be director of the 

 mineralogical, geological, and archaeological collections at Dresden ; Dr. Klock- 

 mann, of Clausthal, to be professor of mineralogy and geology in the Technical 

 Institution at Aix ; Dr. Kolkwitz, to be professor of histology at Innsbruck 

 University ; Dr. Casimir Kwietniewski, as assistant in the cabinet of zoology 

 and anatomy at Messina University ; Dr. Lambert, as assistant at the 

 plant - physiology experimental station in Geisenheim ; Dr. Lepetet, to 

 be professor of histology in Clermont University ; Dr. James Little, 

 as Regius professor of medicine in Dublin University ; Alberto Lofgren, 

 to be director of the botanical gardens at Sao Paulo, Brazil ; Charles P. 

 Lounsbury, of Amherst, Mass., as government entomologist at Cape Town ; 

 Dr. R. Stewart MacDougall, as examiner in agricultural entomology in the 

 University of Edinburgh ; Dr. de Marignac, to be professor of hygiene at 

 Geneva University ; Dr. F. J. H. Merrill to be state geologist of New York, the 

 palaeontologist work being taken by Dr. Clarke (see above) ; A. S. Miller, to be 

 geologist to the Idaho Experiment Station ; Dr. M. von Minder, as assistant in 

 botany at Giessen University ; Dr. Heinrich Obersteiner, to be full professor of 

 the physiology and pathology of the central nervous system at Vienna Univer- 

 sity ; C. S. Parsons, as director of the Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station 



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