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NEWS 



Mr Alexander Agassiz, Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, has 

 heen appointed Professor Emeritus of Harvard College Ijy the President and 

 Fellows in concurrence with the Board of Overseers. 



Among other appointments we note : Dr Franz Steindachner to succeed Dr ' 

 Franz v. Hauer as head of the Naturhistorische Hofmuseum in Vienna, himself 

 being succeeded in the professorship of zoology by Friedrich Mor. Brauer ; Dr 

 Giovanni Battista Condorelli, as professor of natural history at the Gaeta Techni- 

 cal School ; Dr Karl Chun of Breslau to succeed the late R. Leuckart, as professor j 

 of zoology at Leipzig ; Dr Bela Haller, of Heidelberg, to be professor of zoology 

 there ; Pierre Fauvel of Caen, as professor of zoology at the Angers University ; 

 E. S. Goodrich to be Tomlinson-Aldrichian Demonstrator of Anatomy at Oxford 

 University ; Dr Alessandro Coggi of Bologne, as professor of zoology, anatomy, 

 and physiology at the Perugia University ; Harold Heath of Pennsylvania Uni- 

 versity, to be assistant professor of zoology ; Dr Karl Hischeler, assistant in the 

 Zoological Laboratory of Ziirich, to be j)rivat-docent ; Dr Henry T. Fernald, to 

 be economic zoologist of the State of Pennsylvania ; Dr G. J. Born of Breslau, 

 to be full professor of anatomy in that university ; Dr A. L. Bolk, to be professor 

 of anatomy at Amsterdam University ; Mr W. J. Gies, as instructor in physiology 

 at Yule ; and Messrs A. H. Redland and H. E. M'Dermott, as assistants in 

 the same office there ; Dr Glaister, to be professor of forensic medicine in Glasgow 

 University, in succession to Dr P. A. Simpson ; Dr W. J. Simpson, late Health 

 Officer of Calcutta, to be professor of hygiene in King's College, London. 



Dr Otto Warburg, to be titular professor of botany at Berlin University ; Dr 



E. Zacharias, to be director of the Botanical Garden at Hamburg ; Alfred J. 

 M'Clatchie, of the Throop Polytechnic Institute, Pasadena, Cal., to be j)rofe;;sor 

 of agriculture and horticulture in the University of Arizona at Phcenix ; Prof. 



F. W. Card, of Nebraska University, to be professor of agriculture in Rhode 

 Island University ; Cornelius L. Shear, to be assistant agrostologist in the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture ; Dr Jenvresse, as professor of technical and agricul- 

 tural chemistry at Besangon University. 



Dr E. Kalkowsky, professor of mineralogy and geology at the Technical 

 College, Dresden, to be director of the Geological Museum and Prehistoric 

 Collection at the Zwinger Palace, in place of Dr H. B. Geinitz, who retires after 

 fifty-one years of service ; Dr G. Adolf. Sauer, as associate professor of mineralogy 

 at Heidelberg ; Dr Emil Bose, of Karlsruhe, as state-geologist to the Republic of 

 Mexico ; Dr Domenico Sangiorgi, as assistant in the Geological and Mineralogical 

 Cabinet of Parma University. In the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, 

 Dr Wm. Pollard to be assistant geologist in the Petrographic Dept. at Jermyn 

 St., and H. J. Seymour to the corresponding post in Dublin ; C. B. Wedd to be 

 assistant geologist, filling the vacancy due to the resignation of C. E. De Ranee. 



Mr J. H. Cooke of the Education Department, who has been doing such 

 valuable work in Lincolnshire in the promotion of natural science, especially in 

 connection with the Lincolnshire Science Society, has been transferred to the 

 Worcester district, where no doubt he will find an equally fertile field for his 

 energies. 



Dr C. Wardell Stiles has been appointed attache to the United States 

 Embassy in Berlin, in order that he may keep the Agricultural Department 

 informed concerning advances in agricultural science, protect the agricultural 



