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The following appointments have been announced :— Mr H. C. Chadwick, to 

 be curator of the biological station at Port Erin, Isle of Man ; Prof. John 

 Vinezielt, to be director of the bacteriological laboratory and assistant professor of 

 biology at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque, having F. S. Maltby of 

 Johns Hopkins University as assistant in the bacteriological laboratory, and E. G. 

 Coghill of Brown University, as assistant in the biological laboratory ; Prof. G. 

 Pruvot of Grenoble, to be chief of work in practical and applied zoology at the 

 University of Paris ; Dr C. J. Cori, to be professor extraordinarily of zoology at 

 the German University, Prague ; Dr B. Wandolleck of Berlin, to succeed L. W. 

 Wiglesworth as assistant in the Zoological Museum at Dresden ; Dr Gerti-ude 

 Haley, to be demonstrator in anatomy at Melbourne University ; Dr G. Paige of 

 Amsterdam, to be professor of anatomy at Zurich University ; Dr Ph. Stohr of 

 Zurich, to be professor of anatomy at Wiirzburg ; Dr W. T. Porter, to be associate 

 professor of physiology at Harvard. 



Mr J. H. Holland, assistant curator of the Botanic Gardens, Old Calabar, in the 

 Niger Coast Protectorate, to be curator in succession to Mr Billington ; Dr F. 

 Noll of Bonn, to be professor of botany and director of botanical instruction at 

 the Agricultural Academy of Poppelsdorf, Bonn, in place of Prof. Friedrich 

 Kornicke resigned ; Dr Job. Behrens, to be professor of botany at the Technical 

 High School, Karlsruhe ; Dr Z. Kamerling of Berlin, to be assistant in the 

 Botanical Institute of Munich University ; Paul A. Genty, to be director of the 

 Botanical Gardens of Dijon ; Prof. L. Celakovsky, to be director of the newly 

 opened botanical garden of the Bohemian University at Prague ; Mr Demoussy, 

 to be assistant in plant physiology at the Natural History Museum, Paris ; Dr R. 

 A. Harper of Lake Forest University, to be professor of botany at the University 

 of Wisconsin ; Cornelius L. Shear of the University of Nebraska, to be assistant 

 agrostologist in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. 



Dr Max Blanckenhorn of Erlangen, to be temporarily on the staff of the 

 Egyptian Geological Survey ; Prof. A. E. Tornebohm, to be director of the Geo- 

 logical Survey of Sweden in succession to Dr Otto M. Torell, resigned ; Mining 

 Engineer N. Th. Pogrebov, to be secretary and librarian of the Geological Com- 

 mittee, St Petersburg ; A. Lawrski, to be privat-docent in mineralogy and 

 geognosy at Kazan University ; N. Andrussow, to be associate-professor of geology 

 and palaeontology at Dorpat(Jurjew) University ; Dr Heinrich Ries of Columbia 

 University, to be instructor in economic geology in Cornell University. 



Sir William Flower has received from the German Emperor the Royal 

 Prussian order " Pour le Merite " for science and art. 



Dr John Murray of the 'Challenger' has been made K.C.B., and we beg to 

 offer him our warm congratulations. 



The Queen has nominated Mr Charles Sissmore Tomes, F.R.S., F.R.C.S., L.D.S., 

 to be for five years a member of the General Council of Medical Education and 

 Registration of the United Kingdom. 



The proposal to establish a Final Honour School of Agricultural Science at 

 Oxford University has been rejected by Congregation. We may contrast with 



