244 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. 
NEWS. 
Dr. ERNST EBROMAYER, professor of forestry in the University 
of Munich, has resigned. 
The Supreme Court of Missouri has allowed the Shaw Botanical 
Gardens to sell a portion of their unproductive real estate. With the 
proceeds about twenty acres will be added to the gardens. 
The Society of American Bacteriologists was organized at New 
Haven during Christmas week with a membership of over thirty. 
Professor W. T. Sedgwick was elected president, and Professor 
H. W. Conn, of Middletown, Conn., secretary for the coming year. 
We hear from Science that the manuscript of a new edition of 
Coues’s Key to North American Birds was left by the late Dr. 
Coues in a finished condition. 
Appointments: Dr. Hugo Berger, professor of physiography in 
the University of Leipzig. — Dr. J. W. Gregory, of London, professor 
of geology in the University of Melbourne, Australia. — Dr. Hunn- 
berg, privat docent for anatomy in the university at Giessen. — Dr. 
L. Hiltner, head of the bacteriological laboratory of the health office 
in Berlin. — Dr. E. Jacky, assistant in botany in Proskau. — W. L. 
Jepson, associate professor of botany in the University of California. 
— Dr. Itefan Jentys, professor of botany in the University of Agram. 
— Dr. J. C. Klinge, head botanist of the botanical gardens at St. 
Petersburg. — Mr. Frank Leney, of the British Museum, assistant 
curator of the museum at Norwich, England. — Dr. D. W. Merill, 
assistant in biology in the University of Rochester. — Dr. Benjamin 
Lincoln Robinson, Gray professor of botany in Havard University. 
— Dr. George Howard Parker, assistant professor of zoólogy in Har- 
: vard University. — Dr. G. Tanfiljen, head botanist in the botanical 
institute at St. Petersburg. — J. L. Luckett, demonstrator of physiol- 
ogy in the University of: Cambridge. — Dr. Karl Wenle, docent for 
ethnology in the University of St. Petersburg. 
Deaths: Count Wladimir Dzieduszycki, curator of the Lemburg 
Natural History Museum, in Galicia, September 19, aged 71. — Dr. 
Thomas Egleston, emeritus professor of mineralogy in Columbia 
University, in New York, January 15. —Dr. Henry Hicks, English 
geologist, November 18, aged 62.— Dr. Paul Knuth, professor of 
botany in the University of Kiel, October 3o, aged 45.— William 
Pamplin, an English botanist, August 9, aged 92. 
(No. 398 was mailed February 28.) 
