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NEWS 



The following appointments are announced : — 

 Henry Charles Williamson, as Naturalist to the Fishery Board for Scotland ; 

 W. W. Watts, of the Geological Survey, as assistant-professor of geology in the 

 Mason College, Birmingham ; Miss Bertha Stoneman as professor of botany in 

 the Huguenot College for Women at Cape Town ; Dr Edward Fischer to succeed 

 his father, Prof. L. Fischer (retired), as professor of botany in the University of 

 Bern ; Dr Julius Paoletti of Padua to be professor of natural history at the 

 Melfi Technical Institute ; Dr Pio Bolson as second assistant in the Botanical 

 Garden of Padua ; Dr M. Raciborski of Cracow and Dr Zehntner of Pasoeroean 

 (Java) to be professors of botany and entomology at the experimental station for 

 sugar production at Kagok Tegal (Java) ; Hugo Miinsterberg of Freiburg as 

 professor of psychology in Harvard University ; Dr Antonio Crocichia as pro- 

 fessor of biology in the Catholic University of Washington ; Dr H. Fling to the 

 chair of biology, F. A. Mitchell to the chair of geography, and Dr F. D. 

 Sherman to the chair of psychology at the Oshkosh Normal School ; Ernest B. 

 Forbes as assistant state entomologist in Minnesota ; Dr C. E. Beecher as pro- 

 fessor of historical geology at Yale University ; Dr L. V. Pirsson as professor of 

 physical geology in the Lawrence Scientific School ; Dr Geo. B. Shattuck as 

 assistant in geology at Johns Hopkins University ; Oliver L. Fassig as instructor 

 in climatology, and Dr Charles R. Bardeen as assistant in anatomy at the same 

 University ; Dr Albert Schneider as professor of botany, pharmacognosy and 

 materia medica in the School of Pharmacy of the North-Western University, 

 Chicago ; E. B. Copeland, of the University of Wisconsin, to be assistant- 

 professor of botany in the University of Indiana ; Dr G. J. Pierce to be assistant- 

 professor of botany in Stanford University ; Henry Kraemer to the chair of 

 botany and microscopy in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy ; Cleveland 

 Abbe, jun., as a fellow in geology of Johns Hopkins University. 



Sir Frederick McCoy has retired from his professorship in the University 

 of Melbourne. 



Mr A. W. Bennett has succeeded Prof. Jeffrey Bell as editor of the Journal 

 of the Royal Microscopical Society. 



Mr C. Da vies Sherborn has resigned the secretaryship of the Geologists' 

 Association of London, and will be succeeded in October by Mr Percy Emary. 



Mr C. W. Andrews should have arrived at Christmas Island before this 

 number appears. He left Batavia about the 21st July on Mr Ross's schooner. 



The Irish Field Club Union held their annual excursion in July around the 

 north coast of Antrim, making Ballycastle Bay their headquarters. 



Mr R. T. Gunther is on his way to Lake Urumiya on the Persian frontier, to 

 study the fauna of that lake. We regret to hear that he has had a temporary 

 breakdown in health, and hope he will soon recover and proceed on his way. 



We learn from the Revue Scientifique that it is proposed to found an experi- 

 mental station in Madagascar, for the introduction of European cereals and the 

 improvement of local vegetable produce. 



