NEWS. 
WE learn that the Zodlogical Society of Holland is preparing a 
series of synopses of the fauna of Holland, following somewhat after 
the style of the Keys now being published in this journal. 
The Pant World, hitherto published by Willard Clute & Co. of 
Binghamton, N. Y., will be issued in future by the Plant World Co., 
Washington, D. C. 
Dr. Elliott Coues, the well-known ornithologist and for some years 
an associate editor of the American Naturalist, died in Baltimore, 
December 25. He was born in Portsmouth, N. H., Sept. 9, 1842, 
was graduated in arts and medicine from the Columbian University 
at Washington, and served as assistant surgeon in the U. S. Army 
from 1862 to 1881. He taught anatomy and zoólogy in Norwich 
University, Columbian University, and the Virginia Agricultural 
College. He was best known for his works on birds, including his 
Keys to North American Birds (three editions), Birds of the Colo- 
rado Valley, Birds of the Northwest, Ornithological Biography, etc., 
in which are to be found some of the best sketches in the language. 
He also worked on mammals. During his later years he became 
enamored with theosophy and neglected scientific work. 
. Appointments: E. A. N. Arber, demonstrator in paleobotany in 
the University of Cambridge. — Dr. F. W. Bancroft, instructor in 
physiology in the University of California. — Dr. Edmond William 
Wace Carlier, professor of physiology in Mason College, Birmingham, 
England. — Dr. Dandler, privat docent for anatomy in the Univer- 
sity of Vienna. — W. H. L. Duckworth, instructor in physical anthro- 
Pology in the University of Cambridge. — Grafton Elliott-Smith, 
demonstrator of anatomy in the University of Cambridge. — Dr. Otto 
von Furth, privat docent for physiology in the University of Vienna. 
— Dr. Martin Heidenhain, professor extraordinary of anatomy in the 
University of Tübingen. — Dr. J. J. Jahn of Vienna, professor ex- 
traordinary of geology in the newly established technical school at 
Brünn, Austria, — Alfred Jentzsch, geologist at the Geological Lan- 
desanstalt in Berlin. — S. J. Korshinsky, director of the herbarium 
of the Academy of St. Petersburg. — Dr. Alfred Krolopp, assistant 
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