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The following appointments are announced : — 



Dr J. Biittikofer, of the State Museum in Leiden, to be director of the 

 Zoological Garden at Rotterdam ; Dr Johannes Martin to be director of the 

 Natural History Museum in Oldenburg ; Dr W. B. Pillsbury to be instructor in 

 psychology and director of the Psychological Laboratory in the University of 

 Michigan ; Dr Antoneo Crocichia to be professor of biology at the Catholic 

 University, Washington ; Prof. W. T. Engelmann to succeed the late Prof. Du 

 Bois Reymond as professor of physiology at the University of Berlin ; Adolf 

 Beck, from professor-extraordinarius to professor of physiology at Lemberg ; 

 Mr Muir, of Halifax University, to be professor of psychology in Mount Holyoke 

 College ; Dr C. E. Seashore to be assistant-professor of psychology at the University 

 of Iowa ; E. M. Weyer and M. Matsumoto to be assistants in the Yale Psycho- 

 logical Laboratory ; Jas. H. MacGregor to be assistant in zoology at Columbia 

 University ; Dr Ludwig Heim to be professor-extraordinarius of bacteriology at 

 the University of Erlangen ; Dr G. Boccardi to be associate-professor of micro- 

 scopical anatomy at Naples ; Dr J. J. Zumstein to be professor of anatomy at 

 the University of Marburg ; Dr Mayr to be prosector at the Veterinary College, 

 Munich ; Dr H. Baum to be professor of osteology at the Dresden Technical 

 High School ; Miss Mary E. Pennington to be Thomas A. Scott felloAv in 

 hygiene at the University of Pennsylvania ; Dr Brault to be professor of 

 tropical diseases at Algiers ; S.I. Franz to be assistant in psychology at 

 Columbia University ; Dr T. Fuchs to be associate-professor of palaeontology at 

 Munich ; Miss Bertha Stoneman to be professor of botany in the Huguenot 

 College for "Women in Cape Colony ; Prof. Georg Volkens to be assistant in the 

 Botanical Museum of the Berlin University ; J. R. Campbell to be lecturer in 

 agriculture at the Harris Institute, Preston ; Dr A. O. Kihlman to be assistant - 

 professor of botany at Helsingfors ; Herbert M. Richards to be tutor in botany 

 at Columbia University ; Dr J. Szadowski to be associate-professor of geology at 

 Klausenburg ; W. S. Boulton, of Mason College, Birmingham, to be lecturer in 

 geology at University College, Cardiff ; Dr Pliilijapi to be assistant in the 

 Geologico-Palaeontological Department of the Natural History Museum in 

 Berlin ; Frederick L. Ransome to be assistant geologist on the U.S. Geological 

 Survey ; T. I. Pocock, of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, to be assistant geologist 

 on the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom ; R. E. Dodge to be professor of 

 geography at the Teachers' College, New York ; Dr W. F. Hume and L. Gorringe 

 to be assistants on the Geological Survey of Egypt ; E. W. MacBride to be 

 professor of zoology in McGill University, Montreal. 



A biological station will shortly be opened near Sebastopol. 



A summer school of biology on the Mississippi, not far from Monmouth, 111., 

 has been organised by Drs Maxwell and Swann. 



The Derby and Mayer Museums at Liverpool have acquired the fine collection 

 of flint implements brought from Egypt by Mr Seton-Karr. 



L'Association Francaise pour l'Avancement des Sciences meets at St Etienne, 

 August 5-12, under the presidency of Prof. E. J. Marey. 



According to Science the University of Montana, at Missoula, has decided to 

 erect a main building at a cost of $47,500, and a science hall at a cost of $12,500. 



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