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NEWS 
Tur following appointments have been announced :—Mr H. C. Chadwick, to 
be curator of the biological station at Port Erin, Isle of Man; Prof. John 
Vinezielt, to be director of the bacteriological laboratory and assistant professor of 
biology at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque, having F. S. Maltby of 
Johns Hopkins University as assistant in the bacteriological laboratory, and E. G. 
Coghill of Brown University, as assistant in the biological laboratory ; Prof. G. 
Pruvot of Grenoble, to be chief of work in practical and applied zoology at the 
University of Paris; Dr C. J. Cori, to be professor extraordinarius of zoology at 
the German University, Prague ; Dr B. Wandolleck of Berlin, to succeed L. W. 
Wiglesworth as assistant in the Zoological Museum at Dresden ; Dr Gertrude 
Haley, to be demonstrator in anatomy at Melbourne University ; Dr G. Ruge of 
Amsterdam, to be professor of anatomy at Zurich University ; Dr Ph. Stohr of 
Zurich, to be professor of anatomy at Wiirzburg ; Dr W. T. Porter, to be associate 
professor of physiology at Harvard. 
Mr J. H. Holland, assistant curator of the Botanic Gardens, Old Calabar, in the 
Niger Coast Protectorate, to be curator in succession to Mr Billington ; Dr F. 
Noll of Bonn, to be professor of botany and director of botanical instruction at 
the Agricultural Academy of Poppelsdorf, Bonn, in place of Prof. Friedrich 
Kérnicke resigned ; Dr Joh. Behrens, to be professor of botany at the Technical 
High School, Karlsruhe ; Dr Z. Kamerling of Berlin, to be assistant in the 
Botanical Institute of Munich University ; Paul A. Genty, to be director of the 
Botanical Gardens of Dijon ; Prof. L. Celakovsky, to be director of the newly 
opened botanical garden of the Bohemian University at Prague ; Mr Demoussy, 
to be assistant in plant physiology at the Natural History Museum, Paris ; Dr R. 
A. Harper of Lake Forest University, to be professor of botany at the University 
of Wisconsin ; Cornelius L. Shear of the University of Nebraska, to be assistant 
agrostologist in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. 
Dr Max Blanckenhorn of Erlangen, to be temporarily on the staff of the 
Egyptian Geological Survey ; Prof. A. E. Tornebohm, to be director of the Geo- 
logical Survey of Sweden in succession to Dr Otto M. Torell, resigned ; Mining 
Engineer N. Th. Pogrebov, to be secretary and librarian of the Geological Com- 
mittee, St Petersburg; A. Lawrski, to be privat-docent in mineralogy and 
geognosy at Kazan University ; N. Andrussow, to be associate-professor of geology 
and palaeontology at Dorpat (Jurjew) University ; Dr Heinrich Ries of Columbia 
University, to be instructor in economic geology in Cornell University. 
Str Wixiu1AmM FLower has received from the German Emperor the Royal 
Prussian order “ Pour le Mérite” for science and art. 
Dr JoHN Murray of the ‘Challenger’ has been made K.C.B., and we beg to 
offer him our warm congratulations. 
THE Queen has nominated Mr Charles Sissmore Tomes, F.R.S., F.R.C.S., L.D.S., 
to be for five years a member of the General Council of Medical Education and 
Registration of the United Kingdom. 
THE proposal to establish a Final Honour School of Agricultural Science at 
Oxford University has been rejected by Congregation. We may contrast with 
