354 [May 



NEWS 



The following are among recent appointments : — Henry Hanna, to be 

 demonstrator in biolog}-, geology, palaeontology, of the Royal College of 

 Science, Dublin ; Dr H. W. M. Tims, to be professor of zoology at Bedford 

 College for Women, London ; Dr Hanson Kelly Corning, as professor of 

 anatomy at Basle University ; Dr Griifin Maria Linden, as second assistant in 

 zoology at Tiibingen University ; Dr Paul Schiemenz, as director of the Bio- 

 logical and Fish-Culture Station at Miiggelsee ; Dr Johannes Thiele, of Stras- 

 burg, will succeed him at Berlin as assistant in the Zoological Department of the 

 High School for Forestry ; H. C. Bumpus, of Brown University, to be scientific 

 director of Wood's Holl Station, U.S.A. ; Dr Charles R. Barnes, of Wisconsin 

 University, to be 23rofessor of plant physiology in the University of Chicago ; 

 Madame Lemaire, to be professor of drawing applied to j)lant study, at the 

 Museum d'Histoire Naturelle at Paris ; Surgeon-Major David Prain, to be super- 

 intendent of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Calcutta, in succession to George King, 

 retired ; Dr Eugenis Serra, as assistant in the Botanical Gardens of Palermo ; 

 Professor Arthur Borntraeger, of the School of Agriculture at Portici, to be 

 director of the Agrarian Station in Palermo ; Dr H. F. Harris, as professor of 

 bacteriology at Jefferson College ; Dr J. L. C. Schroeder van der Kolk, as pro- 

 fessor of mineralogy in Delft Polytechnic ; Emil Wiechert succeeds in part the 

 late Professor E, Schering at Gottingen University ; the professorship of astro- 

 nomy is now distinct from geophysics and earth magnetism, the section presided 

 over by Dr Wiechert ; L. V. Pirsson, to be professor of physical geology at Yale 

 University, and not at Harvard, as stated in our April number. 



The Seventh International Congress of Geography is to be held at Berlin in 

 1899. 



The Museum of Bonn University has received the anthropological collection 

 of Schaffhausen. 



The University of St Andrews intends to establish a jorofessorship in 

 Physiology, and in Anthropology and Anatomy. 



Prop. G. B. Howes has received the degree of LL.D. honoris causa, and Mr 

 A. T. Masterman that of D.Sc, from the University of St Andrews. 



The collection of mammals made by the late Dr Harrison Allen was be- 

 queathed by him to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadeljihia. 



Dr Hugo Bucking and Dr L. van Werveke have started for an eight montlis' 

 expedition to the Netherland East Indies on behalf of a Dutch Society. 



We regret to learn that La Fayette College had a large part of its scientific 

 equipment and all of the herbarium destroyed by fire on December 18tli. 



The Eighth Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society is to be held 

 at Heidelberg, June 1st to 3rd, under the presidency of Prof. F. E. Schulze. 



We are glad to learn that Mr W. P, Pycraft Las been elected an Associate of 

 the Linnaean Society, Mr Pycraft has been busy of late in the preparation of a 

 key to the osteology of birds. 



The Swedish Anthropological and Geographical Society has awarded the Vega 

 Stipend to Mr J. Stadling, who has started on a journey through Siberia in 

 search of possible traces of Andree's balloon expedition. 



