NEWS. 



The following appointments have recently been made : — Dr. Hugo Berger, to 

 be professor of the history of " Erdkunde " in Leipzig ; Dr. Edgar R. Cummings, 

 as instructor in geology in the University of Indiana, Bloomington ; Dr. E. A. 

 Darling, as bacteriologist to the Cambridge Board of Health, to succeed Dr. G. 

 B. Henshaw ; Dr. C. B. Davenport, to fill the post in the University of Chicago 

 left vacant by the removal of Professor Wheeler to the University of Texas ; 

 W. L. H. Duckworth, M.A., as lecturer in physical anthropology at Cambridge 

 University ; O. Franges, to be professor of pisciculture at the University of 

 Agram ; Dr. Sigmund Fuchs, as professor of the anatomy and physiology of 

 domestic animals at the Agricultural Station at Vienna ; Dr. K. W. Genthe, as 

 an instructor in zoology in the University of Michigan ; Dr. L. C. Glen, as 

 professor of geology in South Carolina College ; Dr. Hans Hausrath, to be 

 professor of forestry in the Technical Institute of Karlsruhe ; Dr. Henneberg, as 

 docent in anatomy at Giessen ; Dr. L. Hiltner, as director of the bacteriological 

 laboratory in the Imperial Health Office in Berlin ; V. Hlavinka, as professor of 

 geodesy in the University of Agram ; Dr. S. J. Holmes, as an instructor in 

 zoology in the University of Michigan ; Dr. E. Jacky, as assistant on the 

 botanical side of the pomological institute in Proskau ; J. J. Jahn, to be pro- 

 fessor of mineralogy and geology in the Technical Institute in Brunn ; Dr. H. 

 S. Jennings, as an instructor in zoology in the University of Michigan ; Dr. 

 Stefan Jentys, as professor of agriculture and botany in the University 

 of Agram ; Dr. Johannes Christoph Klinge, to be a head botanist and 

 the librarian in the botanic garden of St. Petersburg ; S. J. Korshinsky, 

 to be director of the herbarium of the Academy of St. Petersburg ; 

 Dr. Alfred Krolopp, as assistant professor of botany in the University 

 of Agram ; Dr. Daniel P. MacMillan, to an appointment in connection 

 with the Child-Study Department recently created in connection with the 

 public schools of Chicago — probably the first appointment of this sort, and, 

 we sincerely hope, not the last ; Dr. W. D. Merill, as instructor in biology, 

 with special reference to botany, in the University of Rochester ; Dr. Merton 

 L. Miller, associate in anthropology in the University of Chicago ; Dr. B. 

 Nemec, as docent in vegetable anatomy and physiology in the Tschech 

 University of Prag ; W. A. Orton, as lecturer on botany in the St. Louis 

 Manual Training School in New York ; C. W. Prentiss, as an assistant in 

 zoology at Harvard University ; Dr. Eugen Bonier, as docent for geography in 

 the University of Lemberg ; Dr. J. T. Rothrock, reappointed state com- 

 missioner of forestry for the state of Pennsylvania ; John Louis Sheldon, as 

 assistant in botany in the University of Nebraska in Lincoln ; Dr. E. 0. Sisson, 

 as director of the histological laboratory in the recently consolidated medical 

 schools of Keoduk, Iowa ; G. Tanfiljew, to be a head botanist in the botanical 

 institute in St. Petersburg ; Mr. J. L. Tuckett, Fellow of Trinity College, 

 Cambridge, as an additional demonstrator of physiology ; Dr. Velich, as docent 

 in the physiology and pathology of animals in the Tschek University of Prag ; 



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