NEWS. 
THE following appointments have recently been made :—Captain W. de W. 
Abney, C.B., to be principal assistant secretary of the Science and Art Depart- 
ment ; Dr. G. Agamennone, as director of the Geodynamic Observatory at Rocca 
di Papa, near Rome; Joseph Barrell, as instructor in geology in Lehigh 
University, South Bethlehem, Penn. ; Miss Annie J. Barrows, as assistant in 
zoology at Smith College, U.S.A. ; Dr. Tarleton H. Bean, as director of forestry 
and fisheries on the U.S. Commission to the Paris Exposition of 1900; Dr. C. 
Benda, privat docent in the University of Berlin, nominated professor; E. A. 
Bessey, to be assistant vegetable pathologist in the United States Department 
of Agriculture ; Dr. J. Warwick Brown, as external examiner in zoology in the 
University of Aberdeen ; Dr. E. Wace Carlier, as professor of physiology at 
Birmingham ; J. F. Collins, curator of the herbarium in Brown University, 
U.S.A., to be instructor in botany there; John G. Coulter, as instructor in 
botany at Syracuse University ; Ulric Dahlgren, to be assistant professor of 
histology in Princeton University ; Dr. J. Dewitz, as resident assistant of the 
Concilium Bibliographicum, whose new address is 38 Eidmatt Strasse, Ziirich ; 
Dr. Oliver L. Fassig, as instructor in climatology in Johns Hopkins University ; 
Dr. John Gifford, as assistant professor of forestry at Cornell ; Ulysses S. Grant, 
as professor of geology in the North-Western University ; Dr. A. J. Herbertson, 
as lecturer on physical geography at Oxford; Dr. Robert Tracy Jackson, 
assistant professor of palaeontology in Harvard; Dr. Bengst Johnsson, professor 
of botany at the Academy at Lund; Sir George W. Kekewich, to be secretary 
of the Science and Art Department in room of Sir J. F. D. Donelly retired ; 
Dr. B. F. Kingsbury, as assistant professor in histology and embryology at 
Cornell ; Dr. L. Lalry, as correspondent to the Concilium Bibliographicum of 
Ziirich ; Professor Malcolm Laurie, as external examiner in zoology in the 
University of Glasgow; Mr. F. R. Lillie, as professor of biology at Vassar 
College ; Miss Florence M. Lyon, Ph.D., as assistant in botany at Smith College, 
U.S.A. ; Dr. R. 8. Macdougall, as lecturer on botany at the Heriot-Watt College, 
Edinburgh ; Dr. Rudolf Martin, as professor extraordinarius of anthropology in 
Ziirich ; Dr. E. B. Matthews, advanced to the position of associate professor of 
petrography and mineralogy at Johns Hopkins University ; Mr. E. A. Minchin, 
as professor of zoology at University College, London, in succession to Professor 
Weldon, now of Oxford; Dr. G. Poirault, to succeed Naudin as director of the 
botanical laboratory for higher instruction at the Villa Thuret, Antibes ; Dr. 
Adalar Richter, professor extraordinarius of botany in the University of Klausen- 
burg ; Miss W. J. Robinson, as instructor in biology at Vassar College; Dr. Alfred 
Schaper, to be assistant professor of histology at the Harvard Medical School, 
Boston, Mass. ; Dr. Frank Schlesinger, as an observer in the U.S. Coast and 
Geodetic Survey ; W. E. D. Scott, curator of the ornithological collections of 
the Green School of Science in Princeton; Dr. G. B. Shattuck, advanced to the 
position of associate in physiographic geology at Johns Hopkins University ; 
M. V. Shlingerland, as assistant professor in entomology at Cornell ; Dr. Streckel- 
son, privat docent for geography in the University of Basel; Dr. F. Strong of 
Yale, to be president of the University of Oregon ; Professor Ph. van Tieghem, 
to the chair of the biology of cultivated plants at the National Agronomic 
Institute, Paris; Dr. Tobler, privat docent for mineralogy in the University of 
Basel; Dr. R. von Wettstein, to be professor of botany in the University of 
Vienna ; Dr. Gregg Wilson, as lecturer on biology at the Royal (Dick) Veterinary 
College, Edinburgh, and on zoology at the Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh ; 
J. B. Woodworth, as instructor in geology in Harvard University. 
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