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Nikolaus Warpachowsky, as director of the Government Fisheries in Archangel ; 

 Dr. Karl "Wenle, as docent in geography and ethnology in the University of 

 Leipzig ; W. A. Willard, as an assistant in zoology in Harvard University ; S. 

 R. Williams, as an assistant in zoology in Harvard University. 



Dr. K. Eckhardt, Professor of Physiology at Giessen, has recently celebrated 

 the fiftieth year of his function as a university teacher. 



Professor Henry G. Jessup, who has held the chair of Botany in Dartmouth 

 College for twenty-two years, has resigned. 



The Council of the Royal Society has adjudicated a Royal medal to Professor 

 William Carmichael M'Intosh for his important monographs on marine animals, 

 his work on the fisheries industries, and his success in establishing the Gatty 

 Marine Laboratory at St. Andrews. 



The Council of the Royal Society has adjudicated the Davy medal to Mr. 

 Edward Schunck, F.R.S., for his investigations on madder, indigo, and chloro- 

 phyll. 



The gold medal of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland has 

 been awarded to Professor Cossart Ewart in recognition of his experiments on 

 hybridisation, telegony, and the like. 



Mr. J. J. Lister, University Demonstrator of Comparative Anatomy, and Mr. 

 A. C. Seward, University Lecturer in Botany, have been elected to fellowships in 

 St. John's College, Cambridge, in recognition of their important scientific work. 



Dr. G. Elliott-Smith, one of the assistant demonstrators of Anatomy at 

 Cambridge, well known for his researches on the comparative anatomy of the 

 mammalian brain, has been elected a Fellow of St. John's College. 



Professor G. Sims Woodhead has been elected to a Fellowship at Trinity 

 Hall, Cambridge. 



The degree of M.A. honoi'is causa has been conferred by the University of 

 Cambridge on Dr. W. Somerville, recently elected Professor of Agriculture there. 



Grants from the Moray fund of the University of Edinburgh have been made 

 to Professor E. A. Schafer for the expenses of research on the cerebral nervous 

 system, and to Dr. John Malcolm for experiments on the alterations in bone 

 marrow produced by nucleins and their allies. 



At the unveiling of the monument to Johannes Miiller, at his birthplace, 

 Coblentz, on October 2nd, Professors Virchow and Waldeyer were the chief 

 speakers. The former pointed out that Johannes Miiller was par excellence a 

 biologist ; the latter referred especially to Midler's influence on the University of 

 Berlin, and on the Prussian Academy of Sciences. 



The following gifts and bequests are announced : — D. F. Converse, a mill- 

 owner of Spartanburg, S.C, left one-third of his estate, valued at half a million 

 dollars, to Converse College, an institute which he founded ten years ago in 

 Spartanburg for the higher education of women ; by the will of the late Cornelius 

 Vanderbilt, Yale University receives $100,000, and Vanderbilt University half 

 that sum ; £20,000 given by Mr. Charles Holcroft for the new Birmingham 

 University, bringing the total endowment up to £315,400 ; £10,000 was recently 

 subscribed towards enlarging the Durham University College of Science, for 

 which £50,000 is needed. 



Vassar College has been promised 825,000 towards a biological laboratory 

 on condition that an equal amount be raised otherwise. 



Mr. E. E. M'Millin has given the Ohio Academy $250 for scientific investi- 

 gations, with a provisional promise that the gift may be annual. 



Mr. E. Tuck has given $300,000 to Dartmouth College, U.S.A. ; the late 

 Mrs. M. J. Goddard left $60,000 to Tufts College. 



