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Flora.' Any assistance through, the gift of 

 duplicate specimens or the loan of herbarium 

 sheets will be greatly appreciated. 



Dr. August Brauer, professor of zoology, 

 at Marburg, has been appointed director of 

 the Zoological Museum of the University of 

 Berlin. 



Dr. a. Soattenfroh, associate professor of 

 hygiene at the University of Vienna, has been 

 promoted to a professorship and made director 

 of the Institute of Hygiene. 



Dr. L. Frobenius, the well-known German 

 ethnologist, has undertaken an expedition to 

 the region of the Kasai for the study of the 

 native tribes of that part of Africa. 



Mr. Alexander Agassiz, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, sailed for Liverpool, on December 30. 



Professor W. A. Kelleeman will spend the 

 winter in Guatemala with a view to carrying 

 forward the mycologieal researches begun 

 there last winter. 



Mayor Weaver has announced the appoint- 

 ment of the following advisory board of physi- 

 cians to assist Dr. W. M. L. Coplin, of the 

 Philadelphia State Board of Health, in the 

 execution of his plans : Drs. S. Weir Mitchell, 

 John H. Musser, John M. Anders, Hobart A. 

 Hare, J. William White and Henry LefEmann. 



Dr. William Stirling, recently appointed 

 Fullerian professor of physiology at the Royal 

 Institution, London, will deliver a course of 

 six lectures on ' Food and Nutrition,' at the 

 institution during the months of February 

 and March. 



A MEMORIAL to Professor Albert von Kol- 

 licker will be erected in Wiirzburg by the 

 German Anatomical Society, of which he was 

 an honorary president. 



We learn from Nature that it is proposed 

 to erect a statue in Freiburg, Saxony, to the 

 memory of the late Professor Dr. Clemens 

 Winkler, who was professor in the Eoyal 

 Mining Academy at Freiburg, and died in 

 Dresden last year. The proposed memorial 

 is to take the form of a large block of granite 

 decorated with a medallion picture of the 

 deceased investigator and a short account of 

 his life's work. 



The British Medical Journal states that 

 Dr. Czerny, professor of surgery at Heidel- 

 berg, has founded a gold medal in memory of 

 his father-in-law, the clinician Kussmaul, who 

 died in 1903. The medal, together with a 

 prize of $250, will be awarded every three 

 years for the best German research on thera- 

 peutics. 



A meeting to commemorate the hundredth 

 anniversary of the birth of Josef Skoda, 

 known for his study of physical methods of 

 examination and as the founder of the Vienna 

 Medical School, was held on December 11. 

 The bronze bust of Skoda in the hall of the 

 university was decorated with flowers and an 

 address was given by his pupil and successor. 

 Professor von Schrotter. 



Walter B. Hill, chancellor of the Univer- 

 sity of Georgia, died on December 28. 



The death is announced of Dr. Otto Stolz, 

 professor of mathematics at Innsbi'uck. 



The United States Civil Service Commis- 

 sion announces an examination on January 

 24r-25, 1906, to fill a vacancy in the position 

 of miscellaneous computer at the United 

 States Naval Observatory, and other similar 

 vacancies as they may occur. Miscellaneous 

 computers are paid by the hour and earn from 

 $800 to $1,000 per annum. 



The Geographical Jourrud, quoting from the 

 Zeitschrift of the Berlin Geographical Society 

 (1905, No. 7), states that a scheme has been 

 drawn up for the systematic investigation of 

 the geography of the German African ter- 

 ritories. Hitherto, it is felt, much has been 

 lost by the dissipation of energy among vari- 

 ous channels, and it is hoped that more valu- 

 able results will be gained by the concentration 

 of efEort under one organization. The scheme 

 is the result of the deliberations of a committee 

 appointed last year for the purpose, and it is 

 proposed to carry out the objects in view by 

 stationing scientific observers at government 

 stations, attaching them to expeditions, and 

 similar methods. The scope of their re- 

 searches will embrace ' all branches of scien- 

 tific knowledge which have to do with the 

 earth's surface, its vegetable, animal and hu- 

 man inhabitants.' 



