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NEWS 
THE following appointments are announced :— 
Henry Charles Williamson, as Naturalist to the Fishery Board for Scotland ; 
W. W. Watts, of the Geological Survey, as assistant-professor of geology in the 
Mason College, Birmingham ; Miss Bertha Stoneman as professor of botany in 
the Huguenot College for Women at Cape Town ; Dr Edward Fischer to succeed 
his father, Prof. L. Fischer (retired), as professor of botany in the University of 
Bern; Dr Julius Paoletti of Padua to be professor of natural history at the 
Melfi Technical Institute ; Dr Pio Bolson as second assistant in the Botanical 
Garden of Padua; Dr M. Raciborski of Cracow and Dr Zehntner of Pasoeroean 
(Java) to be professors of botany and entomology at the experimental station for 
sugar production at Kagok Tegal (Java); Hugo Miinsterberg of Freiburg as 
professor of psychology in Harvard University ; Dr Antonio Crocichia as pro- 
fessor of biology in the Catholic University of Washington ; Dr H. Fling to the 
chair of biology, F. A. Mitchell to the chair of geography, and Dr F. D. 
Sherman to the chair of psychology at the Oshkosh Normal School ; Ernest B. 
Forbes as assistant state entomologist in Minnesota; Dr C. E. Beecher as pro- 
fessor of historical geology at Yale University ; Dr L. V. Pirsson as professor of 
physical geology in the Lawrence Scientific School ; Dr Geo. B, Shattuck as 
assistant in geology at Johns Hopkins University ; Oliver L. Fassig as instructor 
in climatology, and Dr Charles R. Bardeen as assistant in anatomy at the same 
University ; Dr Albert Schneider as professor of botany, pharmacognosy and 
materia medica in the School of Pharmacy of the North-Western University, 
Chicago; E. B. Copeland, of the University of Wisconsin, to be assistant- 
professor of botany in the University of Indiana ; Dr G. J. Pierce to be assistant- 
professor of botany in Stanford University ; Henry Kraemer to the chair of 
botany and microscopy in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy ; Cleveland 
Abbe, jun., as a fellow in geology of Johns Hopkins University. 
Srr Freperick McCoy has retired from his professorship in the University 
of Melbourne. . 
Mr A. W. Bennett has succeeded Prof. Jeffrey Bell as editor of the Journal 
of the Royal Microscopical Society. 
Mr C. Davies SHERBORN has resigned the secretaryship of the Geologists’ 
Association of London, and will be succeeded in October by Mr Percy Emary. 
Mr C. W. Anprews should have arrived at Christmas Island before this 
number appears. He left Batavia about the 21st July on Mr Ross’s schooner. 
THE Irish Field Club Union held their annual excursion in July around the 
north coast of Antrim, making Ballycastle Bay their headquarters. 
Me R. T. Ginter is on his way to Lake Urumiya on the Persian frontier, to 
study the fauna of that lake. We regret to hear that he has had a temporary 
breakdown in health, and hope he will soon recover and proceed on his way. 
WE learn from the Revue Scientifique that it is proposed to found an experi- 
mental station in Madagascar, for the introduction of European cereals and the 
improvement of local vegetable produce. 
