No. 385.] SCIENTIFIC NEWS. QI 
Recent appointments: Mr. C. A. Barber, government botanist at 
Madras, India. — Dr. Friedrich Becke, of Prague, professor of miner- 
alogy in the University of Vienna. — Dr. Friedrich Blochmann, of 
Rostock, professor of zoology in the University of Tiibingen. — Prof. 
Oskar Brefeld, of Miinster, professor of botany in the University of 
Breslau, as successor to Cohn. — Dr. Steven Crowe, tutor in bacteri- 
ology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in San Francisco. — 
Dr. Frederick E. Clements, lecturer in botany in the University of 
Nebraska, — Dr. Franz W. Dafert, of Sao Paulo, Brazil, director of 
the Agricultural Experiment Station in Vienna. — Dr. O. V. Darbi- 
shire, lecturer and demonstrator in botany in Owens College, Man- 
chester. — Dr. Dieudonné, privat-docent for bacteriology in the 
University of Wiirzburg. —Dr. Hermann Dingler, professor of botany 
in the forestry station at Aschaffenburg. — Mr. Frederick O. Grover, 
professor of botany in Oberlin College. —G. T. Hastings, assistant 
in botany in Cornell University. — G. M. Holman, assistant in biology 
in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. — Dr. Honl, privat- 
docent for bacteriology in the Bohemian University in Prague. — 
Dr. Hans Hausrath, extraordinary professor of forestry in the Karls- 
ruhe Technical School. — Dr. J. Jablonowski, assistant in anthropol- 
ogy in the Dresden Museum. — Dr. Friedrich Katzer, of the museum 
at Para, Brazil, geologist of the museum at Sarajevo, Bosnia. — Dr. 
Georg Klebs, of Basel, professor of botany in the University of Halle. 
— Dr. Fr. Kopsch, privat-docent for anatomy in the anatomical-bio- 
logical institute of the University of Berlin. — Dr. Robert Lauterborn, 
of Ludwigshafen, privat-docent for botany in the University of Hei- 
delberg. — Dr. Hans Lenk, professor of mineralogy and geology in 
the University of Erlangen. — Dr. Ritter Lorenz von Liburnau, docent 
in zoology in the Vienna School of Agriculture. — Prof. Lugui Luciani, 
rector of the University of Rome. — George Grant McCurdy, instruc- — 
tor in prehistoric anthropology in Yale University. — Dr. Albert 
Matthews, assistant professor of physiology in the Medical School of 
Tufts College. —W. A. Merrill, assistant in botany in Cornell Uni- 
versity. — Dr. B. Moore, professor of physiology in the Medical 
School of Yale University. — Dr. D. Morris, of the Kew Gardens, 
head of a department to direct the practical applications of botany in 
the West Indies. — Dr. Lubomir Niederle, professor of archzxology 
and ethnology in the Bohemian University of Prague. — Dr. E. S. 
Pillsbury, tutor in bacteriology in the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons in San Francisco. — Dr. Philipp Potta, professor of pale- 
ontology in the Bohemian University of Prague. — James Pollock, _ 
