NEWS. 
THE following appointments have recently been made :—Dr. A. P. Anderson, 
assistant professor of botany in the University of Minnesota ; Dr. O. Appel as 
an assistant in the biological department of the Agricultural and Forestry 
Institute in Berlin; Mr. Carlton R. Ball, assistant in the division of agrostology, 
U.S. Department of Agriculture ; Dr. W. Benecke, as docent for botany at Kiel ; 
Dr. Alfred Bergeat as professor of mineralogy and geology in the Mining 
Academy at Clausthal; Mr. H. Blodgett, an assistant botanist and entomo- 
logist in the New York Branch Agricultural Station at Jamaica; Dr. Franz 
Boas, as professor of anthropology in Columbia University ; Prof. E. A. Burnett, 
of the Agricultural College of South Dakota, to the chair of animal husbandry 
in the University of Nebraska; Dr. A. Cancani, seismologist, to succeed Dr. G. 
Agamenone as assistant in the central office of meteorology and geodynamies at 
Rome; Dr. Chatin, as professor of histology at Paris; Prof. Alessandro Coggi of 
Perugia, as professor of zoology in the University of Sienna; Dr. N. K. Czermak, 
as professor of anatomy, histology, and embryology in the University of Dorpat ; 
Mr. H. N. Dickson, as lecturer on physical geography in the New School of Geo- 
graphy in the University of Oxford ; Dr. von Elterlein, docent for mineralogy and 
geology in Erlangen; Dr. Enrico Festa, assistant in the zoological museum of 
the University of Turin; Prof. Max von Frey of Ziirich to be professor of 
physiology at Wiirzburg; Dr. Alberto Fucini, as docent for palaeontology and 
geology in the University of Pisa; Dr. Ercole Giacomini of Sienna, associate 
professor of zoology in Perugia; Mr. A. W. Gibb, to be university lecturer on 
geology in the University of Aberdeen ; Dr. Hugo Gliick, docent for botany in 
the University of Heidelberg; Dr. Guitel, as adjunct professor of zoology at 
Xennes ; Mr. Eustace Gurney of New College has been appointed to the Oxford 
University table at the Naples Station; Dr. W. H. Hobbs, assistant professor of 
mineralogy and petrology at the University of Wisconsin, to a full professorship ; 
Dr. A. C. Houston, as lecturer on bacteriology at Bedford College, London, for 
women ; Abel A. Hunter, as botanical collector for the University of Nebraska ; 
Dr. A. Jakowatz, as demonstrator in the botanical museum in Vienna ; 
Dr. J. Janse, as director of the botanical gardens at Leiden; Dr. K. Keissler, as 
assistant in the botanical museum in Vienna; P. Beveridge Kennedy, assistant 
in the division of agrostology, U.S. Department of Agriculture ; Dr. Max Koch, 
as titular professor of geology in Berlin; Dr. H. B. Kiimmel, assistant professor 
of physiography at Lewis Institute, Chicago, has been appointed assistant state 
geologist of New Jersey; Dr. Kiinstler, as professor of comparative anatomy 
and embryology at Bordeaux ; Dr. A. C. Lane, to be state geologist of Michigan ; 
Albert Lindstrém, as honorary professor of anatomy in the Karloninian Institute 
in Stockholm; Dr. Giinther Beck von Mannagetta, as professor of systematic 
botany in Prag; Dr. Johannes Meisenheimer, as privat docent in embryology in 
the University of Marburg; Elmer D. Merrell, assistant in the division of 
agrostology, U.S. Department of Agriculture; G. T. Moore, as instructor in 
botany at Dartmouth College, U.S.A.; W. A. Orton, assistant in the U.S. 
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