6 8 [January 



NEWS 



The following appointments are announced : — 



Dr J. Joly, to be professor of geology in Trinity College, Dublin ; Dr Wm. G. 

 Smith, to be assistant-lecturer in botany, at the Yorkshire College, Leeds ; Dr 

 J. D. E. Schmeltz, keeper at the Kijks Museum of ethnography in Leiden, to be 

 director in the place of Dr L. Serrurier, resigned ; Dr Otto Fuhrmann, to be 

 professor of zoology at the Neuchatel Academy ; Dr Max Dessoir, to be associate- 

 professor of psychology in Berlin University ; Dr George Krans, to succeed J. von 

 Sachs as professor of botany at Halle ; Franz Mattouschek, assistant in botany at 

 the German University in Prague, to be jDrofessor at the gymnasium in Linz ; 

 Dr A. Ostroumoff, to be professor of zoology in the University of Kasan ; Dr 

 Polumordwinow, to be privat-docent of histology and prosector in the University 

 of Kasan ; Dr Alexis E. Smirnov, to be professor of zoology in the University of 

 Tomsk ; Dr Guido Schneider, to be director of the Biological Institute at Sebas- 

 topol ; Clarence L. Herrick, to be president of the University of New Mexico 

 in Albuquerque ; Dr Geo. T. Kemp, to be professor of physiology in the 

 University of Illinois ; Dr John Y. Graham, of Princeton, to be professor of 

 biology in the University of Alabama ; Robert B. Yound, to be assistant- 

 biologist in the Department of Agriculture, at Washington ; A. A. Tylor, to be 

 instructor in biology in the Union College, Schenectady, New York State ; Dr 

 Frederick D. Lambert, to be assistant in biology at Tufts College ; Dr Lafayette 

 B. Mendel, to be assistant-professor of physiological chemistry in Yale University ; 

 T. A. Reakard, to be State geologist of Colorado ; Dr Schmitz-Dumond, of Tarand, 

 to be director of the Agricultural Experimental Station to be established in 

 Pretoria ; Dr Philippi, to be director of the National Museum in Santiago, Chili, 

 in place of his father, resigned. 



A CHAIR of geograjihy has been established in Wtirzburg University. 



The seventh International Congress of Geography will be held in Berlin in 

 the year 1899. 



Mr Martin Fountain Woodward will succeed Mr E. R. Sykes as Secretary 

 to the Malacological Society. 



Mr Schaaffhausen's valuable anthropological collection has been left to the 

 Museum of Bonn University. 



Dr Richard Semon has resigned his office as prosector and professor of 

 anatomy in the University of Jena. 



Many fish were brought alive to the New York Aquarium, but the attempt to 

 transport invertebrates was unsuccessful. 



Dr Sven Hedin, the Swedish exj^lorer of Central Asia, is the recipient of the 

 Danish Geographical Society's gold medal. 



Professor Schaper of University College, London, is the recipient of the 

 Baly Medal of the Royal College of Physicians. 



The Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft of Frankfurt has 

 purchased the library of the late Professor Carl Vogt. 



The Durham College of Science, Newsastle-on-Tyne, has, on October 21, 

 established a marine biological station at Cullercoats (Northumberland). 



The Hallett Philips collection of Indian implements and antiquities from 

 the Potomac Valley has, says Science, become the property of the Smithsonian 

 Institution. 



