NEWS. 
Tue following appointments have recently been made :—Dr. Hugo Berger, to 
be professor of the history of “ Erdkunde ” in Leipzig ; Dr. Edgar R. Cummings, 
as instructor in geology in the University of Indiana, Bloomington; Dr. E. A. 
Darling, as bacteriologist to the Cambridge Board of Health, to succeed Dr. G, 
B. Henshaw ; Dr. C. B. Davenport, to fill the post in the University of Chicago 
left vacant by the removal of Professor Wheeler to the University of Texas ; — 
W. L. H. Duckworth, M.A., as lecturer in physical anthropology at Cambridge 
University ; O. Franges, to be professor of pisciculture at the University of 
Agram; Dr. Sigmund Fuchs, as professor of the anatomy and physiology of 
domestic animals at the Agricultural Station at Vienna; Dr. K. W. Genthe, as 
an instructor in zoology in the University of Michigan; Dr. L. C. Glen, as 
professor of geology in South Carolina College; Dr. Hans Hausrath, to be 
professor of forestry in the Technical Institute of Karlsruhe ; Dr. Henneberg, as 
docent in anatomy at Giessen; Dr. L. Hiltner, as director of the bacteriological 
laboratory in the Imperial Health Office in Berlin ; V. Hlavinka, as professor of 
geodesy in the University of Agram; Dr. 8. J. Holmes, as an instructor in 
zoology in the University of Michigan; Dr. E. Jacky, as assistant on the 
botanical side of the pomological institute in Proskau; J. J. Jahn, to be pro-—~— 
fessor of mineralogy and geology in the Technical Institute in Brunn; Dr. H. 
S. Jennings, as an instructor in zoology in the University of Michigan ; Dr. 
Stefan Jentys, as professor of agriculture and botany in the University 
of Agram; Dr. Johannes Christoph Klinge, to be a head botanist and 
the librarian in the botanic garden of St. Petersburg; S. J. Korshinsky, 
to be director of the herbarium of the Academy of St. Petersburg ; 
Dr. Alfred Krolopp, as assistant professor of botany in the University 
of Agram; Dr. Daniel P. MacMillan, to an appointment in connection 
with the Child-Study Department recently created in connection with the 
public schools of Chicago—probably the first appointment of this sort, and, 
we sincerely hope, not the last; Dr. W. D. Merill, as instructor in biology, 
with special reference to botany, in the University of Rochester; Dr. Merton 
L. Miller, associate in anthropology in the University of Chicago; Dr. B. 
Némec, as docent in vegetable anatomy and physiology in the Tschech 
University of Prag; W. A. Orton, as lecturer on botany in the St. Louis 
Manual Training School in New York; ©. W. Prentiss, as an assistant in 
zoology at Harvard University ; Dr. Eugen Romer, as docent for geography in 
the University of Lemberg; Dr. J. T. Rothrock, reappointed state com- 
missioner of forestry for the state of Pennsylvania; John Louis Sheldon, as 
assistant in botany in the University of Nebraska in Lincoln; Dr. E. O. Sisson, 
as director of the histological laboratory in the recently consolidated medical 
schools of Keoduk, Iowa; G. Tanfiljew, to be a head botanist in the botanical 
institute in St. Petersburg; Mr. J. L. Tuckett, Fellow of Trinity College, 
Cambridge, as an additional demonstrator of physiology ; Dr. Velich, as docent 
in the physiology and pathology of animals in the Tschek University of Prag ; 
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