NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 



SOCIETIES. 



Herr Holst, a German botanist, has been appointed to the German station at 

 Kilima-njaro in East Tropical Africa. 



Dr. W. MiGULA, docent in Botany and Bacteriology at the technical high-school 

 at Karlsruhe, has been raised to the rank of Professor. 



Professor Engler, the well-known director of the Berlin Botanic Garden, has 

 been raised to the dignity of Geheim Regierungsrath. 



Geheimrath Professor Pringsheim, another famous German botanist, has 

 been appointed a Knight of the Order of Maximilian and an honorary member of 

 the Petersburg Academy of Science. 



Dr. W. Saposchnikoff becomes Professor of Botany at the University of 

 Tomsk, in Siberia. 



Dr. G. F. Stone has been appointed assistant Professor of Botany at the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College at Amherst. 



Mr. Albert F. Woods has been appointed assistant Pathologist in the Section 

 of Vegetable Pathology of the Department of Agriculture in Washington. 



Mr. W. W. Clendenin, formerly an Assistant in the University of Missouri, 

 has been appointed Professor of Geology and Botany at the University of Louisiana. 



At the University of Cagliari, in Sardinia, Dr. Dominico Lovisato has been 

 appointed Professor of Botany and Keeper of the Botanical Garden, while Dr. 

 Francisco Sanfelice has been nominated Professor of Hygiene. 



Dr. Giacomo Catterina has been made Assistant in Zoology and Compara- 

 tive Anatomy at the Naples University. 



Dr. Zacharias, late Professor-extraordinarius in Strassburg, whose recent paper 

 on the cells of the Cyanophyceae is of so much interest, has been appointed Director 

 of the Botanical Gardens at Hamburg. Dr. Zacharias is a native of Hamburg, and 

 has now returned after 17 years' service in the famous Strassburg school under De 

 Bary and Graf zu Solms-Laubach. 



Mr. E. Chapman, who has for many years been science tutor at Magdalen 

 College, Oxford, is leaving Oxford at the end of the summer term. Mr. R. T. 

 Giintherhas been appointed his successor. 



