3r «■> 



NEWS 



Thk following appointments have recently been made : — C. A. Barber as 

 government botanist at Madias, in the room of the late M. A. Lawson ; Dr 

 G. Bode as assistant in the Botanical Institute, Innsbruck University ; Dr 

 Arthur Borntriiger as director of the Agricultural Station at Palermo ; Dr O. 

 Brefeld, of Minister Academy, has been called to the University of Breslau ; Miss 

 Agnes M. Claypole as assistant in microscopy, histology, and embryology at 

 Cornell University ; E. A. Mine bin, of Merton College, Oxford, to succeed Mr 

 Beddard as lecturer on biology at Guy's Hospital ; Dr Stephen Crowe and 

 Dr E. S. Pillsbury as assistants in bacteriology at the San Francisco College of 

 Physicians and Surgeons ; Dr W. H. Dafert as director of the Agricultural 

 Chemical Station in Vienna ; Mr R. A. Daly as instructor in physiography in 

 Harvard University ; Dr Vicenzo Diamare as first assistant in comparative 

 anatomy at Naples Universit ; S. T. Dunny as secretary to the director of Kew 

 Gardens ; Stanley Flower of the King of Siam's Museum at Bangkok, as superin- 

 tendent of the Cairo Zoological Gardens ; W. J. Gies as instructor in physiology 

 at Yale University ; Prof. Hofer of Munich as professor of geography in Wiirz- 

 burg University ; Wm. Jas. Hornaday of Buffalo as director of the Zoological 

 Can lens in New York, and John Alden Loring of Owego as bis assistant ; Dr 

 Friedrich Katzer of the Para Museum as geologist to the Sarajevo Museum, 

 Bosnia ; Oskar Loew, of Tokio, as chemical plant-physiologist to the Dept. of 

 Agriculture at "Washington ; Prof. Herbert Osborn, of Iowa Agricultural College, 

 to the chair of zoology at Ohio State University ; H. J. Patterson as director of 

 the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station, vice R. H. Miller resigned ; A. 

 H.Phillips, as assistant-professor in mineralogy at Princeton University; Dr C. H. 

 Richardson as instructor in geology, and Dr H. S. Jennings (temporarily) in the 

 Dartmouth College, N.S. ; Dr Wilhelm Schimper, of Bonn, succeeds Dr Klebs as 

 professor of botany at Basle ; Dr Oswald Selliger, of Berlin, as professor of zoology 

 at Rostock University ; Dr Mark V. Slingerland, of Cornell, as state entomologist 

 of New Fork in the place of the late Dr J. A. Lintner ; Dr Ernest Stolley, of Kiel, 

 as geologist in the National Museum of Buenos Ayres ; Prof. C. H. Townsend as 

 biogeographer and systematic entomologist to the New Mexico Agricultural 

 College and Experiment Station, T. D. A. Cockerell professor of entomology, and 

 E. < >. Wooten professor of botany there ; Dr C. O. Townsend, of Barnard College, 

 as botanist and plant pathologist for the State of Maryland ; Dr Yoges, of Berlin, 

 as director of the Bacteriological Institute at Buenos Ayres ; Prof. Volkens as 

 one of the custodians of the Botanic Gardens in Berlin ; Dr Julius Nikolas 

 Wagner as professor of zoology in the University of St Petersburg; Dr Zukal 

 as professor of forestry at the High School for Agronomy in Vienna. 



A replica of the Hon. John Collier's portrait of Huxley has been presented to 

 thr National Gallery by Mr Collier. 



Sir John Murray has resigned the post of scientific member of the Fishery 

 Board for Scotland. 



According to Nature the vacancy at Kew caused by the appointment of Mr 

 Morris as Commissioner of Agriculture to the West Indies, will not be filled up. 

 It seems a pity that a good botanical post has been lost. 



2 B 



