NEWS. 



The following appointments have recently been made : — Captain W. de W. 

 Abney, C.B., to be principal assistant secretary of the Science and Art Depart- 

 ment ; Dr. G. Agamennone, as director of the Geodynamic Observatory at Rocca 

 di Papa, near Rome ; Joseph Barrell, as instructor in geology in Lehigh 

 University, South Bethlehem, Penn. ; Miss Annie J. Barrows, as assistant in 

 zoology at Smith College, U.S.A. ; Dr. Tarleton H. Bean, as director of forestry 

 and fisheries on the U.S. Commission to the Paris Exposition of 1900 ; Dr. C. 

 Benda, privat docent in the University of Berlin, nominated professor ; E. A. 

 Bessey, to be assistant vegetable pathologist in the United States Department 

 of Agriculture ; Dr. J. Warwick Brown, as external examiner in zoology in the 

 University of Aberdeen ; Dr. E. Wace Carlier, as professor of physiology at 

 Birmingham ; J. F. Collins, curator of the herbarium in Brown University, 

 U.S.A., to be instructor in botany there ; John G. Coulter, as instructor in 

 botany at Syracuse University ; Ulric Dahlgren, to be assistant professor of 

 histology in Princeton University ; Dr. J. Dewitz, as resident assistant of the 

 Concilium Bibliograptiicum, whose new address is 38 Eidmatt Strasse, Zurich ; 

 Dr. Oliver L. Fassig, as instructor in climatology in Johns Hopkins University ; 

 Dr. John Gilford, as assistant professor of forestry at Cornell ; Ulysses S. Grant, 

 as professor of geology in the North-Western University ; Dr. A. J. Herbertson, 

 as lecturer on physical geography at Oxford ; Dr. Robert Tracy Jackson, 

 assistant professor of palaeontology in Harvard ; Dr. Bengst Johnsson, professor 

 of botany at the Academy at Lund ; Sir George W. Kekewich, to be secretary 

 of the Science and Art Department in room of Sir J. F. D. Donelly retired ; 

 Dr. B. F. Kingsbury, as assistant professor in histology and embryology at 

 Cornell ; Dr. L. Lalry, as correspondent to the Concilium Bibliographicum of 

 Zurich ; Professor Malcolm Laurie, as external examiner in zoology in the 

 University of Glasgow ; Mr. F. R. Lillie, as professor of biology at Vassar 

 College ; Miss Florence M. Lyon, Ph.D., as assistant in botany at Smith College, 

 U.S.A. ; Dr. R. S. Macdougall, as lecturer on botany at the Heriot-Watt College, 

 Edinburgh; Dr. Rudolf Martin, as professor extraordinarius of anthropology in 

 Zurich ; Dr. E. B. Matthews, advanced to the position of associate professor of 

 petrography and mineralogy at Johns Hopkins University ; Mr. E. A. Minchin, 

 as professor of zoology at University College, London, in succession to Professor 

 Weldon, now of Oxford ; Dr. G. Poirault, to succeed Naudin as director of the 

 botanical laboratory for higher instruction at the Villa Thuret, Antibes ; Dr. 

 Adalar Richter, professor extraordinarius of botany in the University of Klausen- 

 burg ; Miss W. J. Robinson, as instructor in biology at Vassar College; Dr. Alfred 

 Schaper, to be assistant professor of histology at the Harvard Medical School, 

 Boston, Mass. ; Dr. Frank Schlesinger, as an observer in the U.S. Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey ; W. E. D. Scott, curator of the ornithological collections of 

 the Green School of Science in Princeton ; Dr. G. B. Shattuck, advanced to the 

 position of associate in physiographic geology at Johns Hopkins University ; 

 M. V. Slingerland, as assistant professor in entomology at Cornell ; Dr. Streckel- 

 son, privat docent for geography in the University of Basel ; Dr. F. Strong of 

 Yale, to be president of the University of Oregon ; Professor Ph. van Tieghem, 

 to the chair of the biology of cultivated plants at the National Agronomic 

 Institute, Paris ; Dr. Tobler, privat docent for mineralogy in the University of 

 Basel ; Dr. R. von Wettstein, to be professor of botany in the University of 

 Vienna ; Dr. Gregg Wilson, as lecturer on biology at the Royal (Dick) Veterinary 

 College, Edinburgh, and on zoology at the Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh ; 

 J. B. Woodworth, as instructor in geology in Harvard University. 



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