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Tin; following appointments have recently been made : — Leopold Adametz as 

 veterinary professor at the High School for Agronomy at Vienna ; Prof. W. P. 

 Blake, of Tncsan, Arizona, as State Geologist of Arizona ; Dr Carl Brick as 

 assistant in the Hamburg Botanic Garden ; Rudolf Beyer as honorary professor 

 of botany in Berlin ; Friedrich Blochmann, of Rostock, as professor of zoology at 

 Tubingen University ; Friedrich Moritz Brauer as director of the zoological 

 collections in the Hof-Museum, Vienna ; Dr W. T. Brigham as director of the 

 Berenice Panahi Bishop Museum at Honolulu ; Dr Frederick E. Clements as 

 reader in botany in the University of Nebraska ; Hermann Dingier as professor 

 of botany at the Institute of Forestry at Aschaffenburg ; Dr 0. V. Darbishire as 

 demonstrator in Botany at Owens College, Manchester ; Benj. M. Duggar and 

 Dr Elias I. Durand as readers in botany at Cornell University ; Dr Adrian Fiori 

 as private docent in botany, Padua University ; Albert Heischmann, of Erlangen, 

 as professor of zoology at the University there, in the room of Dr Selenka ; Dr 

 Karl Fritsch as director of the botanical museum at the University of Vienna, in 

 the room of the late Kerner von Marilaun ; G. T. Hastings as assistant in botany 

 at Cornell University ; Dr Franz Hoffmann as private docent for physiology in 

 the University of Heidelberg ; Dr J. Jablonowski, of Berlin, as assistant in 

 anthropology at the Dresden Museum ; Ludwig Katharina as professor of zoology 

 and comparative anatomy in Freiburg University ; George Klebs, of Basle, as 

 professor of botany at Halle University ; Dr Hans Lenk as professor of mineralogy 

 and geology at Erlangen University ; Ludwig Kerschner as professor of histology 

 at the University of Innsbruck ; H. J. Monson and Andrew Linton as senior 

 and junior professors of agriculture to the School of Agriculture at Ghizeh ; W. A. 

 Murrill as assistant in botany at Cornell University ; Lubomir Niederle as pro- 

 fessor of archaeology and ethnography in the Bohemian University of Prague ; Dr 

 C. C. O'Hara as professor of geology and mineralogy in the South Dakota School 

 of Mines ; Dr Ph. Pocta as professor of palaeontology at the Ceske Museum, 

 Prague ; Mr Gifford Pinchot, as chief of the Division of Forestry in the U.S. 

 Department of Agriculture, in the room of Dr B. E. Fernow, who becomes the 

 head of the New York School of Forestry ; Dr Aladar Richter as chief of the 

 botanical department of the Hungarian National Museum, and Paul Kuckuck, of 

 Heligoland, to be keeper of botany there ; Dr Ludwig Reh as zoological assist- 

 ant at the Concilium Bibliographicum, Zurich ; Dr F. J. V. Skiff, of the Field 

 I iolumbian Museum, as director of mining and mineralogy at the Paris Exposi- 

 tion of 1900 ; C. F. Myers-Ward as lecturer in physiology at the Owens College, 

 Manchester ; Dr A. Weberbauer as private docent for botany in Breslau Uni- 

 versity ; Dr Zograf, extraordinary professor of zoology, and Dr Mrensbier, extra- 

 ordinary professor of comparative anatomy in Moscow University. 



Lord Peel has been appointed a trustee of the British Museum in the place of 

 the late Mr Spencer Walpole. 



Dr C. H. Hitchcock, of Dartmouth, U.S., has left for a year's geological 

 exploration in the Hawaiian Islands. His address will lie Honolulu. 



We regret that we entirely overlooked the fact that the Government made a 

 substantial grant from the Royal Bounty of £150 to Mr Joseph Wright of Belfast 



