68 [Januaiy 



NEWS 



The following ajDpointments are announced : — 



Dr J. Joly, to be professor of geology in Trinity College, Dublin ; Dr Wm. G. 

 Smith, to be assistant-lecturer in botany, at the Yorkshire College, Leeds ; Dr 

 J. D. E. Schmeltz, keeper at the Rijks Museum of ethnography in Leiden, to be 

 director in the place of Dr L. Serrurier, resigned ; Dr Otto Fuhrmann, to be 

 professor of zoology at the Neuchatel Academy ; Dr Max Dessoir, to be associate- 

 professor of iDsychology in Berlin University ; Dr George Krans, to succeed J. von 

 Sachs as professor of botany at Halle ; Franz Mattouschek, assistant in botany at 

 the German University in Prague, to be professor at the gymnasium in Linz ; 

 Dr A. Ostroumoff, to be professor of zoology in the University of Kasan ; Dr 

 Polumordwinow, to be privat-docent of histology and prosector in the University 

 of Kasan ; Dr Alexis E. Smirnov, to be professor of zoology in the University of 

 Tomsk ; Dr Guido Schneider, to be director of the Biological Institute at Sebas- 

 topol ; Clarence L. Herrick, to be president of the University of New Mexico 

 in Albuquerque ; Dr Geo. T. Kemp, to be professor of physiology in the 

 University of Illinois ; Dr John Y. Graham, of Princeton, to be professor of 

 biologj^ in the University of Alabama ; Robert B. Yound, to be assistant- 

 biologist in the Department of Agriculture, at Washington ; A. A. Tylor, to be 

 instructor in biology in the Union College, Schenectady, New York State ; Dr 

 Frederick D. Lambert, to be assistant in biology at Tufts College ; Dr Lafayette 

 B. Mendel, to be assistant-professor of i^hysiological chemistry in Yale University ; 

 T. A. Reakard, to be State geologist of Colorado ; Dr Schmitz-Dumond, of Tarand, 

 to be director of the Agricultm-al Exj^erimental Station to be established in 

 Pretoria ; Dr Philippi, to be director of the National Museum in Santiago, Chili, 

 in place of his father, resigned. 



A CHAIR of geography has been established in Wiirzburg University. 



The seventh International Congress of Geogrui)liy will be held in Berlin in 

 the year 1899. 



Mr Martin Fountain Woodward will succeed Mr E. R. Sykes as Secretary 

 to the Malacological Society. 



Mr Schaaffhausen's valuable anthropological collection has been left to the 

 Museum of Bonn University. 



Dr Richard Semon has resigned his office as prosector and professor of 

 anatomy in the University of Jena. 



Many fish were brought alive to the New York Aquarium, but the attempt to 

 transport invertebrates was unsuccessful. 



Dr Sven Hedin, the Swedish explorer of Central Asia, is the recipient of the 

 Danish Geographical Society's gold medal. 



Professor Schafer of University College, London, is the recipient of the 

 Baly Medal of the Royal College of Physicians. 



The Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft of Frankfurt has 

 purchased the library of the late Professor Carl Vogt. 



The Durham College of Science, Newcastle-on-Tyne, has, on October 21, 

 established a marine biological station at Cullercoats (Northumberland). 



The Hallett Philips collection of Indian implements and antiquities from 

 the Potomac Valley has, says Science, become the jiroperty of the Smithsonian 

 Institution. 



