NEWS. 



The following appointments have recently been made : — Dr. A. P. Anderson, 

 assistant professor of botany in the University of Minnesota ; Dr. O. Appel as 

 an assistant in the biological department of the Agricultural and Forestry 

 Institute in Berlin ; Mr. Carlton R. Ball, assistant in the division of agrostology, 

 U.S. Department of Agriculture ; Dr. W. Benecke, as docent for botany at Kiel ; 

 Dr. Alfred Bergeat as professor of mineralogy and geology in the Mining 

 Academy at Clausthal ; Mr. H. Blodgett, an assistant botanist and entomo- 

 logist in the New York Branch Agricultural Station at Jamaica ; Dr. Franz 

 Boas, as professor of anthropology in Columbia University ; Prof. E. A. Burnett, 

 of the Agi-icultural College of South Dakota, to the chair of animal husbandry 

 in the University of Nebraska ; Dr. A. Cancani, seismologist, to succeed Dr. G. 

 Agamenone as assistant in the central office of meteorology and geodynamics at 

 Rome ; Dr. Chatin, as professor of histology at Paris ; Prof. Alessandro Coggi of 

 Perugia, as professor of zoology in the University of Sienna ; Dr. N. K. Czermak, 

 as professor of anatomy, histology, and embryology in the University of Dorpat ; 

 Mr. H. N. Dickson, as lecturer on physical geography in the New School of Geo- 

 graphy in the University of Oxford ; Dr. von Elterlein, docent for mineralogy and 

 geology in Erlangen ; Dr. Enrico Festa, assistant in the zoological museum of 

 the University of Turin; Prof. Max von Frey of Zurich to be professor of 

 physiology at Wiirzburg ; Dr. Alberto Fucini, as docent for palaeontology and 

 geology in the University of Pisa ; Dr. Ercole Giacomini of Sienna, associate 

 professor of zoology in Perugia ; Mr. A. W. Gibb, to be university lecturer on 

 geology in the University of Aberdeen ; Dr. Hugo Gliick, docent for botany in 

 the University of Heidelberg ; Dr. Guitel, as adjunct professor of zoology at 

 Rennes ; Mr. Eustace Gurney of New College has been appointed to the Oxford 

 University table at the Naples Station ; Dr. W. H. Hobbs, assistant professor of 

 mineralogy and petrology at the University of Wisconsin, to a full professorship ; 

 Dr. A. C. Houston, as lecturer on bacteriology at Bedford College, London, for 

 women ; Abel A. Hunter, as botanical collector for the University of Nebraska ; 

 Dr. A. Jakowatz, as demonstrator in the botanical museum in Vienna ; 

 Dr. J. Janse, as director of the botanical gardens at Leiden ; Dr. K. Keissler, as 

 assistant in the botanical museum in Vienna ; P. Beveridge Kennedy, assistant 

 in the division of agrostology, U.S. Department of Agriculture ; Dr. Max Koch, 

 as titular professor of geology in Berlin ; Dr. H. B. Kiimmel, assistant professor 

 of physiography at Lewis Institute, Chicago, has been appointed assistant state 

 geologist of New Jersey ; Dr. Kiinstler, as professor of comparative anatomy 

 and embryology at Bordeaux ; Dr. A. C. Lane, to be state geologist of Michigan ; 

 Albert Lindstrom, as honorary professor of anatomy in the Karloninian Institute 

 in Stockholm ; Dr. Giinther Beck von Mannagetta, as professor of systematic 

 botany in Prag ; Dr. Johannes Meisenheimer, as privat docent in embryology in 

 the University of Marburg; Elmer D. Merrell, assistant in the division of 

 agrostology, U.S. Department of Agriculture ; G. T. Moore, as instructor in 

 botany at Dartmouth College, U.S.A. ; W. A. Orton, assistant in the U.S. 



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