208 [March 



NEWS 



The following Ai^pointments are announced : — Prof. Michael Foster to be 

 Gifford lecturer in Glasgow University for the sessions of 1898-99 and 1899-1900 ; 

 F. C. Kempson, of Caius College, Cambridge, to be demonstrator of anatomy 

 at the University ; Dr W. B. Benham, Aldrichian demonstrator in comparative 

 anatomy at Oxford, to be professor of biology in the University of Otago, N.Z.; 

 W. G. van Name, to be assistant in biology, and G. L. Bunnell, assistant in 

 zoology, at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University ; Dr Ehumbler to 

 be professor of zoology in the University of Gottingen ; Dr Sigmund Fuchs to 

 be professor extraordinarius of physiology in the University of Vienna ; Dr 

 Abelous to be professor of physiology at the University of Toulouse ; R. H. 

 Biften, of Caius College, Cambridge, to be demonstrator of botany at the 

 University ; Dr Julius von Istvanffy, of Budapest, to be professor of botany in 

 the University of Klausenburg ; Dr Alexander Magocsy-Dietz to be associate 

 professor of botany in the University of Budapest ; Dr Eichard Klebs, of 

 Konigsberg, to be professor ; Prof. 0. Mattirolo, of Bologna, to be professor of 

 botany and director of the museum and botanical garden at Florence ; Prof. F. 

 Morini to take his place at Bologna ; Francis Ramaley, instructor in pharma- 

 ceutical botany at the University of Minnesota, to be assistant professor of 

 botany in Colorado University, Boulder, Col.; Dr P. Zenetti, of the Pharma- 

 ceutical Institute of Strassburg University, to be professor of chemistry and 

 natural history at the Dillingen Lyceum ; Romul Alex. Prendel, of Odessa, to be 

 professor of geology and mineralogy at Klausenberg ; H. W. Pearson, of Christ's 

 College, Cambridge, to be assistant curator of the herbarium of the University ; 

 Dr Otto Finsch, of Delmanhorst, to be director of the ornithological department 

 in the Rijks Museum of Leyden ; William J. Moenkhaus, of Indiana University, 

 to be custodian of the Paulista Museum at San Paulo, Brazil ; Frederic PhilijDpi, 

 jjrofessor of natural history and director of the Botanical Gardens at Santiago 

 (Chili), has succeeded his father, the veteran Prof Rudolph Armand Philippi, 

 as director of the National Museum of Santiago, Prof. E,. A. Philipj^i having 

 retired at the age of ninety, after forty-three years' service. 



Dr Arthur Willey has been re-elected for one year to the Balfour Student- 

 fihij) in Biology at Cambridge University. 



We regret to learn that Sir J. William Dawson of Montreal is suffering from 

 a stroke of paralysis and in a critical state of health. 



]Major Quincy of Boston suggests that £13,000 be appropriated immediately 

 for the establishment of a marine atj^uarium in Boston. 



Prof. J. 0. Edmond Perrier has been elected membre libre of the Paris 

 Academy of Medicine in place of the late Dr Magitot. 



The Hoagland Biological Laboratory of Brooklyn, N.Y., has received from its 

 founder, Mr C. N. Hoagland, a mortgage for 24,000 dollars. 



Sir Nathaniel Lindley, Master of the Rolls, has been elected a Fellow of 

 the Royal Society in virtue of his membership of the Privy Council. 



The Ragonot collection of Microlepidoptera and the Berthelin fossil Forami- 

 jiifera are among recent additions to the Museum of Natural History at Paris. 



