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the boys' school, and will constitute the first 

 instalment of a building for the acconunoda- 

 tion of anatomy, pharmacology, and phys- 

 iology. 



Aethur Ceathorne^ Ph.D.- (Gottingen) and 

 E. L. Borger, Ph.D. (Chicago), have been ap- 

 pointed instructors in mathematics at the 

 University of Illinois. Dr. Crathorne was 

 formerly instructor in the University of Wis- 

 consin, and Dr. Borger has been professor of 

 mathematics in the University of Florida. 



G. D. BiRKHOFF, A.B. (Harvard), Ph.D. 

 (Chicago), has been appointed instructor in 

 mathematics in the University of Wisconsin. 



Among recent appointments at the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago are the foUovcing: Charles 

 Scofield Blair, to a research assistantship in 

 geology; J. Claude Jones, to a research assist- 

 antship in geology; Arthur Carleton Trow- 

 bridge, to a laboratory assistantship in geol- 

 ogy; Prank Adolph St. Sure, to an assistant- 

 ship in anatomy; Stephen Walter Ransom, 

 to an assistantship in experimental thera- 

 peutics, department of physiology; Hermann 

 Irving Schlesinger, to an associateship in 

 chemistry; Otis William Caldwell, to an asso- 

 ciate professorship in botany and supervisor- 

 ship of nature study in the School of Educa- 

 tion. Promotions have been made as follows : 

 Storrs Barrows Barrett, associate in astron- 

 omy, to an instructorship ; Philip Fox, asso- 

 ciate in astrophysics, to an instructorship; 

 Robert James Wallace, associate in photo- 

 physics in the department of astronomy, to 

 an instructorship. 



In response to an urgent request from the 

 large Bohemian population of Nebraska pro- 

 vision has been made for the teaching of the 

 Bohemian language in the University of Ne- 

 braska, by the appointment of Mr. Jeffrey D. 

 Hrbek, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to be instructor 

 in German and Slavonic. Mr. Hrbek is a 

 native of Bohemia, who has fitted himself for 

 teaching in American schools by completing 

 one of the regular courses of study in the Iowa 

 State University. For the present his work 

 is to be under the supervision of the professor 

 of Germanic languages, until it develops suffi- 



ciently to warrant giving it a department by 

 itself. 



Dr. E. W. Brown, Ph.D. (Tale), has been 

 appointed first assistant in the laboratory for 

 animal physiology. Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture. 



Mr. Adam Sedgwick, F.R.S., fellow of 

 Trinity College, Cambridge, has been elected 

 professor of zoology and comparative anatomy 

 at Cambridge, in succession to the late Pro- 

 fessor Newton. The London Times says : Mr. 

 Sedgwick was educated at Marlborough and 

 Trinity College. On the death of the late 

 Professor F. M. Balfour in 1882, Mr. Sedg- 

 wick took over the direction of the Morpho- 

 logical Laboratory, and during the last twenty- 

 five years the Cambridge Zoological School 

 has owed much to his energy and his powers 

 as a teacher. Mr. Sedgwick has published 

 numerous scientific memoirs, amongst the 

 most notable of which are those dealing with 

 the development of Peripatus. He is also the 

 author of an exhaustive text-book of zoology, 

 one volume of which has still to appear. For 

 the last ten years he has been tutor of Trinity 

 College. 



At the University of Leeds the council has 

 appointed Dr. Walter Garstang to the pro- 

 fessorship of zoology, and Mr. V. H. Black- 

 man to the professorship of botany. The two 

 chairs are to take the place of the professor- 

 ship of biology hitherto held by Professor 

 Miall. Professor Gai-stang, M.A., D.Sc. (Ox- 

 ford), is at present chief naturalist to the 

 Marine Biological Association and is in charge 

 of their Lowestoft Laboratory. 



At Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Mr. 

 Herbert Charles Resker, B.A., has been elected 

 to the Hewett research scholarship for natural 

 science. 



Dr. Graham Steell has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of medicine at the University of Man- 

 chester. 



Peofessor W. His, a son of the eminent 

 anatomist, has been appointed to succeed Pro- 

 fessor von Leyden in the chair of special 

 pathology and therapeutics in the University 

 of Berlin. 



