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The following appointments have recently been made :—Miss Catherine A. 
Raisin, D.Sc., the well-known petrologist, to be Vice-Principal of Bedford College 
for Women, London ; C. B. Crampton, M.B. of the University of Edinburgh, to be 
assistant-keeper in oe geological department of the Manchester Museum, in suc- 
cession to H. Bolton ; Prof. 0, Chun to be professor of zoology at Leipzig ; Prof.~ 
W. Kiikenthal to pe professor of zoology at Breslau ; Dr Conrad Keller of the» 
Polytechnicum, Ziirich, to be full professor of zoology ; Dr H. E. Ziegler, of Frei- 
burg, i/B, to be professor of phylogeny at Jena; Dr C. A. Kofoid to be assistant, 
professor of zoology at the University of Illinois; Wallace Craig to be assistant 
in the State Laboratory of Natural History at the [linois Biological Station ; 
E. B. Forbes to be field-entomologist of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural 
History ; J. H. M‘Gregor to be assistant in zoology at Columbia University, New 
York ; G. M. Holman as assistant in biology at the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology ; Dr B. Moore, of University College Hospital, to be professor of 
physiology in the Yale Medical School; Dr Albert Matthews to be assistant- 
professor of physiology at Tufts College ; Dr Simon Flexner to be professor of 
pathological anatomy at Johns Hopkins University ; Dr Joseph Priestly to be 
teacher of hygiene in the British Institute of Preventive Medicine ; Dr J. P. 
Hylan to be assistant professor of psychology at the University of Illinois; Albert 
Gaillard to be director of the Lloyd Herbarium at Angers ; C. W. Young to be 
assistant in botany at the University of Illinois; James Pollock, Hamilton Timber- 
lake, and Julia W. Snow to be instructors in botany at the University of Michigan ; 
F. O. Grover, of Harvard, to be instructor in botany at Oberlin College, Goel 
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Dr FREDRIK WILHELM cone ArmscHoue has resigned the professorship 
of botany at Lund University. 
Pror. E. B. WiLson, of Columbia University, has recently recovered from a 
serious illness, and will spend next year in travel and research abroad. 
Pror. FLINDERS PETRIE has presented to the Museum of Anatomy and Anthro- 
pology at Cambridge, nineteen cases of skulls and bones from his excavations at 
Hieraconopolis. These include remains of the prehistoric and earliest dynastic 
races in Egypt. 
Lorp WALSINGHAM, High Steward of the University of Cambridge, has offered 
a second medal, in bronze, for specially meritorious essays in biology which do not 
obtain the Walsingham gold medal. 
THE University of Sydney is to be affiliated to that of Cambridge, and students 
in arts or science who have pursued a certain course at Sydney will be admitted 
to the usual privileges of affiliated students. 
DuRING the absence of W. H. R. Rivers with Prof. Haddon’s Expedition, the 
course in experimental psychology at University College, London, is being 
directed by Mr E. T. Dickson. 
Pror, J. W. TRAILL is to be director of the Cruickshank Botanical Garden at 
Aberdeen University. 
Mr Briges 8. CUNNINGHAM, of Cincinnati, has given $60,000 towards the 
erection of a building for biology and physics at Cincinnati University. 
WE learn from Sczence that the U.S. Fish Commissioner has presented Cornell 
University with a collection of fresh-water and salt-water fishes, numbering 
between four and five hundred thousand specimens. The collection, in so far as 
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