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SCIENCE. 



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formerly professor of materia medica and 

 anatomy in the Edinburgh new Veterinary 

 College and the Albert Veterinary College ; 

 chairman of the United States treasury 

 cattle commission ; State veterinarian of 

 New York ; consulting veterinarian to the 

 New York State Agricultural Society ; chief 

 director of the United States Bureau of 

 Animal Industry for the suppression of lung 

 plague in the Mississippi valley and in ISTew 

 York ; member of the tuberculosis commis- 

 sion of the State of New York ; chairman of 

 the regents' board of veterinary examiners 

 for New York and author of a ' General and 

 Descriptive Anatomy of the Domestic Ani- 

 mals,' the ' The Farmers' Veterinary Ad- 

 viser ' and numerous monographs on veteri- 

 nary subjects. 



2. For professor of veterinary surgery, 

 obstetrics, zootechny and jurisprudence : 

 (Appointment not yet made.) 



3. For professor of veterinary and com- 

 parative pathology and bacteriology : Ver- 

 anus Alva Moore, B.S., M.D.; chief of the 

 pathological division of the United States 

 bureau ot Animal Industry, Washington, 

 D. C, professor in the National Veterinary 

 College and of histology in the medical de- 

 partment of the Columbian University, 

 Washington, D. C ; author of numerous 

 bulletins on the pathology and bacteriology 

 of animal diseases, published by the Bu- 

 reau of Animal Industry. 



4. For assistant professor of veterinary 

 and comparative physiology, materia med- 

 ica and pharmacy : Pierre Augustine Fish, 

 B.S., D.Sc, D.V.S.; assistant in the patho- 

 logical division of the United States Bu- 

 reau of Animal Industry, Washington, 

 D. C; formerly instructor in physiology 

 and vertebrate zoology in Cornell Univer- 

 sity, and in zoloogy in the Marine Biologi- 

 cal Laboratory at Wood's Holl ; author of 

 several papers on the structure and func- 

 tion of the nervous system and on pharma- 

 cological subjects. 



5. For assistant professor of veterinary 

 anatomy and anatomical methods : Grant 

 Sherman Hopkins, B. S., D. Sc, instructor 

 in comparative anatomy and embryology 

 in Cornell University, author of mono- 

 graphs on topics in comparative anatomy 

 and histology and on methods of anatomical 

 and physiological demonstration. 



6. For professor of microscopical tech- 

 nology, histology and embryology : Simon 

 Henry Gage, B.S., professor of anatomy, 

 histology and embryology in Cornell Uni- 

 sity ; former chairman of the section of 

 biology of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, and president of 

 the American Microscopical Society ; author 

 of notes upon Histological Methods, the 

 Microscope and Microscopical Methods ; 

 joint author of Anatomical Technology ; 

 contributor to Wood's Eeference Hand- 

 Book of the Medical Sciences, to Foster's 

 Medical Dictionary and to various scientific 

 periodicals and transactions. 



7. For instructor in microscopy, histology 

 andembryology : Benjamin Freeman Kings- 

 bury, A. B., Ph. D., formerly graduate 

 scholar and fellow in Cornell University ; 

 author of monographs on histology and 

 upon the structure and morphology of the 

 nervous system and organs of sense. 



8. For assistant in veterinary bacteri- 

 ology: Raymond Clinton Beed, Ph.D. 



CURRENT NOTES ON PHYSIOGRAPHY. 

 RIVERS OF CENTRAL IOWA. 



The annual report of the Iowa Geological 

 Survey for 1895 contains an essay by J. L. 

 Tilton, of Indianola, on Warren county, in 

 the south- central part of the State, in which 

 particular attention is given to the origin 

 of the river courses. The small ravines are 

 post-glacial, consequent on the slope of the 

 surface. The larger streams follow pre- 

 glacial valleys, though they have not yet 

 cut down to the bottom of the drift that 

 clogged their former courses. It is believed 



