NEWS. 
THE entomological collections of the late Professor J. A. Lintner 
are to be given to Cornell University by his widow. 
The French Association for the Advancement of Science meets at 
Paris, August 2 to 9. 
The International Botanical Congress will meet in Paris, October 
Iı to ro. The International Geological Congress meets at the same 
place August 16 to 28. 
Fellowships for the college year 1900 to 19o1 have been awarded 
as follows : 
Johns Hopkins University: Lawrence Edmonds Griffin (Ph.B., 
Hamlin University), Adam Pruce fellow in biology. 
University of Pennsylvania: J. R. Nurlin and Miss R. A. Vivian, 
zoology; Miss C. B. Thompson, biology. 
Tufts College: R. J, Seymour (B.S. Ohio State University), 
"biology. : 
Harvard University: W. A. Willard, zodlogy. 
Appointments: Miss Cora J. Beckwith, of Ann Arbor, assistant 
instructor in zoólogy at Vassar College. — W. Bergt, professor extraor- 
dinarius of geology in the Dresden Technical School. — Dr. A. N. 
Berlese, of Bologna, assistant professor of botany in the University 
of Sassari, Sardinia. — Dr. W. Busse, docent for bacteriology in the 
University of Berlin. — F. Cavara, professor of botany and director 
of the botanical gardens at Cagliari, Sardinia. — Mr. Cecil B. Cramp- 
ton, of Manchester, assistant geologist on the Scottish Geological 
Survey, — Dr. C. Eckstein, professor of zodlogy in the Forestry 
School at Eberswald, Germany. — Dr. A. Fritsch, of Vienna, profes- 
Sor extraordinarius of botany at the University of Gratz. — Dr. Ernst 
Góppert, professor extraordinarius of anatomy in the University of 
Heidelberg. — Dr. L. E. Griffin, instructor in biology in the Women's 
College of the Western Reserve University. — Dr. Georg Gürich, 
Professor of geology and mineralogy at Breslau. — W. L. Jepson, 
assistant professor of botany in the University of California. — Her- 
mann J. Kolbe, director of the zoólogical collection at Berlin, titular 
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