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THE following appointments are announced :— 
Dr J. Biittikofer, of the State Museum in Leiden, to be director of the 
Zoological Garden at Rotterdam; Dr Johannes Martin to be director of the 
Natural History Museum in Oldenburg ; Dr W. B. Pillsbury to be instructor in 
psychology and director of the Psychological Laboratory in the University of 
Michigan ; Dr Antoneo Crocichia to be professor of biology at the Catholic 
University, Washington ; Prof. W. T. Engelmann to succeed the late Prof. Du 
Bois Reymond as professor of physiology at the University of Berlin ; Adolf 
Beck, from professor-extraordinarius to professor of physiology at Lemberg ; 
Mr Muir, of Halifax University, to be professor of psychology in Mount Holyoke 
College ; Dr C. E. Seashore to be assistant-professor of psychology at the University 
of Iowa; E. M. Weyer and M. Matsumoto to be assistants in the Yale Psycho- 
logical Laboratory ; Jas. H. MacGregor to be assistant in zoology at Columbia 
University ; Dr Ludwig Heim to be professor-extraordinarius of bacteriology at 
the University of Erlangen ; Dr G. Boccardi to be associate-professor of micro- 
scopical anatomy at Naples; Dr J. J. Zumstein to be professor of anatomy at 
the University of Marburg ; Dr Mayr to be prosector at the Veterinary College, 
Munich ; Dr H. Baum to be professor of osteology at the Dresden Technical 
High School; Miss Mary E. Pennington to be Thomas A. Scott fellow in 
hygiene at the University of Pennsylvania; Dr Brault to be professor of 
tropical diseases at Algiers; S. I. Franz to be assistant in psychology at 
Columbia University ; Dr T. Fuchs to be associate-professor of palaeontology at 
Munich ; Miss Bertha Stoneman to be professor of botany in the Huguenot 
College for Women in Cape Colony ; Prof. Georg Volkens to be assistant in the 
Botanical Museum of the Berlin University ; J. R. Campbell to be lecturer in 
agriculture at the Harris Institute, Preston ; Dr A. O. Kihlman to be assistant- 
professor of botany at Helsingfors ; Herbert M. Richards to be tutor in botany 
at Columbia University ; Dr J. Szadowski to be associate-professor of geology at 
Klausenburg ; W. 8. Boulton, of Mason College, Birmingham, to be lecturer in 
geology at University College, Cardiff; Dr Philippi to be assistant in the 
Geologico-Palaeontological Department of the Natural History Museum in 
Berlin ; Frederick L. Ransome to be assistant geologist on the U.S. Geological 
Survey ; T. I. Pocock, of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, to be assistant geologist 
on the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom ; R. E. Dodge to be professor of 
geography at the Teachers’ College, New York ; Dr W. F. Hume and L, Gorringe 
to be assistants on the Geological Survey of Egypt; E. W. MacBride to be 
professor of zoology in McGill University, Montreal. 
A BIOLOGICAL station will shortly be opened near Sebastopol. 
A suMMER school of biology on the Mississippi, not far from Monmouth, II1., 
has been organised by Drs Maxwell and Swann. 
THE Derby and Mayer Museums at Liverpool have acquired the fine collection 
of flint implements brought from Egypt by Mr Seton-Karr, 
L’AssocraTION Francaise pour |’Avancement des Sciences meets at St Etienne, 
August 5-12, under the presidency of Prof. E. J. Marey. 
ACCORDING to Setence the University of Montana, at Missoula, has decided to 
erect a main building at a cost of $47,500, and a science hall at a cost of $12,500. 
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