66 | July 



NEWS 



The following appointments are announced : — 



W. Garstang, of Lincoln College, Oxford, to be Naturalist to the Marine Biological 

 Association of the United Kingdom ; Dr Charles W. Dabney, jun., to be special agent 

 in charge of Scientific and Statistical Investigations in the U.S. Department of Agri- 

 culture ; Dr J. L. Prevost, to be full Professor of Physiology at Geneva ; Dr E. Kauf- 

 mann, privat-docent in Anatomy at Breslau, to be Professor ; Dr Max Wolters, privat- 

 docent in Anatomy at Bonn, to be Professor ; A. J. Moses, to be Professor of Mineralogy, 

 and H. M. Howe, to be Professor of Metallurgy, in Columbia University ; W. H. Lang, 

 to be Lecturer, and Miss D. Clark, to be Demonstrator in Botany, and Miss M. Maclean, 

 to be Demonstrator in Anatomy, at Queen Margaret College, Glasgow ; Dr Fritz Freeh, to 

 be Professor of Geology and Paleontology, at Breslau ; Dr Walter Kruse, to be Pro- 

 fessor of Hygiene, at Bonn ; D. W. Ule, to be Professor of Geography, at Halle ; 

 Dr Raphael Slidell, Freiherr von Erlanger, and Dr Paul Samassa, privat-docents in 

 Zoology, at Heidelberg, to be Assistant-Professors ; Dr J. Thomayer, to be Professor of 

 Pathology, at the Bohemian University, Prague ; Dr E. B. Copeland, to be Assistant- 

 Professor of Botany in the University of Indiana, as successor to Dr G. J. Peirce, who 

 becomes Professor of Plant Physiology in Leland Stanford Junior University ; Dr Ivan 

 V. Muschketoff, to be full Professor of Geology, at the Mining Institute, St Petersburg, 

 in place of A. P. Karpinski, resigned ; Dr A. Stoss, Prosector at the Veterinary 

 College, Munich, to be Assistant-Professor in place of Prof. Johannes Ruckert, who 

 goes to the University ; at the Geologischer Reichsanstalt, Vienna, A. Bittner, as 

 Chief Geologist, G. Geyer, as Assistant-Geologist, G. v. Bukowski and A. Rosiwal, as 

 Adjuncts ; Dr Tschirwinski, of Moscow, to be Professor of Pharmacology, at Dorpat. 



The widow of Prof. G. vom Rath has presented his library to the University of Bonn. 



Mr F. D. Godman has been elected president of the British Ornithologists' Union. 



Mr H. H. W. Pearson has received from Cambridge University a grant of £100 for 

 botanical research in Ceylon. 



The National Herbarium, U.S.A., is sending an expedition under Mr E. P. Sheldon, 

 late of Minnesota University, to explore the Blue Mountains, Oregon. 



The memorial to the African explorer, Joseph Thomson, at his native place, 

 Thornhill near Dumfries, was unveiled on June 8, by Sir Clements Markham. 



The Windward has taken out special stores for Mr Andree, in case he meets 

 with any accident and should be obliged to seek safety on Franz Josef Land. 



A history of the Berlin Academy of Sciences is to be prepared by Prof. Harnack, 

 and to be published on the 200th anniversary of the Academy's foundation. 



The city of New York is raising a loan of 500,000 dollars for the erection of a 

 further wing to the American Museum of Natural History. 



Through the influence of President David Starr Jordan, says Science, arrangements 

 have been made for the establishment of zoological gardens in San Francisco. 



Captain Aiiney, who delivered the sixth Robert Boyle Lecture before the Oxford 

 University Junior Scientific Club on June 1, took for his subject "The scientific 

 requirements of colour photography." 



The first award of the Tilanus gold medal, to be decided every five years by the 

 University of Amsterdam, has been made to Dr Zwaardemaker of Utrecht, for his work 

 on the physiology of smell. 



We much regret to hear that there is talk of withdrawing the Government subsidy 

 to the fresh-water biological station at Plon, where, under Dr Otto Zacharias, so much 

 valuable work has been accomplished. 



The Russian Geographical Society and Academy of Sciences are sending an expedi- 

 tion to study the geography and natural history of the khanates of Roshan, Shignan, 

 and Darwaz. 



