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Tue following appointments have recently been made :—C. A. Barber as 
government botanist at Madras, in the room of the late M. A. Lawson; Dr 
G. Bode as assistant in the Botanical Institute, Innsbriick University ; Dr 
Arthur Borntriiger as director of the Agricultural Station at Palermo; Dr O, 
Brefeld, of Miinster Academy, has been called to the University of Breslau ; Miss 
Agnes M. Claypole as assistant in microscopy, histology, and embryology at 
Cornell University ; E. A. Minchin, of Merton College, Oxford, to succeed Mr 
Beddard as lecturer on biology at Guy’s Hospital; Dr Stephen Crowe and 
Dr E.S. Pillsbury as assistants in bacteriology at the San Francisco College of 
Physicians and Surgeons; Dr W. H. Dafert as director of the Agricultural 
Chemical Station in Vienna; Mr R. A. Daly as instructor in physiography in 
Harvard University ; Dr Vicenzo Diamare as first assistant in comparative 
anatomy at Naples Universit ; 8. T. Dunny as secretary to the director of Kew 
Gardens ; Stanley Flower of the King of Siam’s Museum at Bangkok, as superin- 
tendent of the Cairo Zoological Gardens ; W. J. Gies as instructor in physiology 
at Yale University ; Prof. Hofer of Munich as professor of geography in Wiirz- 
burg University ; Wm. Jas. Hornaday of Buffalo as director of the Zoological 
Gardens in New York, and John Alden Loring of Owego as his assistant ; Dr 
Friedrich Katzer of the Para Museum as geologist to the Sarajevo Museum, 
Bosnia ; Oskar Loew, of Tokio, as chemical plant-physiologist to the Dept. of 
Agriculture at Washington ; Prof. Herbert Osborn, of Iowa Agricultural College, 
to the chair of zoology at Ohio State University ; H. J. Patterson as director of 
the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station, vice R. H. Miller resigned ; A. 
H. Phillips, as assistant-professor in mineralogy at Princeton University; Dr C. H. 
Richardson as instructor in geology, and Dr H. 8S. Jennings (temporarily) in the 
Dartmouth College, N.S. ; Dr Wilhelm Schimper, of Bonn, succeeds Dr Klebs as 
professor of botany at Basle ; Dr Oswald Selliger, of Berlin, as professor of zoology 
at Rostock University ; Dr Mark V. Slingerland, of Cornell, as state entomologist 
of New York in the place of the late Dr J. A. Lintner ; Dr Ernest Stolley, of Kiel, 
as geologist in the National Museum of Buenos Ayres ; Prof. C. H. Townsend as 
biogeographer and systematic entomologist to the New Mexico Agricultural 
College and Experiment Station, T. D. A. Cockerell professor of entomology, and 
E. O. Wooten professor of botany there ; Dr C. O. Townsend, of Barnard College, 
as botanist and plant pathologist for the State of Maryland ; Dr Voges, of Berlin, 
as director of the Bacteriological Institute at Buenos Ayres; Prof. Volkens as 
one of the custodians of the Botanic Gardens in Berlin; Dr Julius Nikolas 
Wagner as professor of zoology in the University of St Petersburg; Dr Zukal 
as professor of forestry at the High School for Agronomy in Vienna. 
A replica of the Hon. John Collier’s portrait of Huxley has been presented to 
the National Gallery by Mr Collier. 
Str JoHN Murray has resigned the post of scientific member of the Fishery 
Board for Scotland. 
AccorDInG to Nature the vacancy at Kew caused by the appointment of Mr 
Morris as Commissioner of Agriculture to the West Indies, will not be filled up. 
It seems a pity that a good botanical post has been lost. 
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