284 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. 
We learn that Mr. Slingerland has no desire to enter into any con- 
test for the position, and the appointment of Mr. E. P. Felt will 
probably hold. Cornell University is certainly to be congratulated in 
retaining the services of Dr. Slingerland. 
The following persons have been elected to honorary membership 
in the Nebraska Academy of Sciences: Alexander Agassiz, LL.D. ; 
John M. Coulter, LL.D.; Professor Samuel H. Scudder; Joseph Le 
Conte, LL.D.; Simon Newcomb, LL.D.; Dr. Otto Kunze; Professor 
Victor Hensen. 
Professor O. C. Marsh, of Yale University, has recently been 
elected correspondent of the Academy of Sciences of Paris. 
Appointments: Dr. John M. Clarke, state paleontologist of New 
York. — H. H. Dale, Coutts-Trotter student in zoology in Trinity 
College, Cambridge. — Wallace Craig, assistant in the Illinois state 
laboratory of natural history. — C. B. Crampton, of Edinburgh, 
assistant keeper of the geological department of the Manchester 
Museum. — Dr. Eugen Dubois, professor of geology in the University 
of Amsterdam. — Dr. E. P. Felt, state entomologist of New York. — 
Dr. Lepetet, professor of histology in the faculty of sciences at Cler- 
mont, France. — Dr. F. J. H. Merrill, state geologist of New York. — 
Dr. Heinrich Obersteiner, professor of physiology and pathology 
of the central nervous system in the University of Vienna. — Dr. 
Domenico Saccardo, assistant in the botanical gardens at Bologna. — 
M. Camille Sauvageau, professor of botany in the University of 
Dijon, France. — Mr. W. G. Savage, assistant in bacteriology in 
University College, London. — Giulio Valentia, of Perugia, professor 
of anatomy in the University of Bologna. — Dr. Weinschenk, privat 
docent in mineralogy and geology in the Munich Polytechnicum. — 
C. W. Young, assistant in botany in the University of Illinois. — Dr. 
K. W. Zimmermann, professor extraordinarius of anatomy in the 
University of Bern. — Dr. Oskar Zoth, professor of physiology in the 
University of Graz. 
Deaths: Joseph Gibelli, professor of botany in the University of 
Turin. — M. Jacques Passé, assistant in the department of physio- 
logical psychology in Paris. — James Spencer, geologist and paleo- 
botanist, July 9, at Akroydon. — Dr. G. Venturi, Austrian bryologist, 
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