Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner has been appointed Balfour student of the 
University of Cambridge. The studentship is for three years and 
has an annual value of £200. It is designed for research in the line. 
of animal morphology. 
Mr. W. W. Skeat, accompanied by Messrs. Evans and Aumandale 
as zodlogists, and Mr. Gwynne-Vaughan as botanist, goes to the 
Malay peninsula to make investigations upon its natural history. 
The expedition is aided by the University of Cambridge. 
The Belgian Royal Academy has awarded a prize of 600 francs to 
Professor L. Cuénot, of Nancy, France, for his studies of the nephridial 
system of the molluscs. 
The Concilium Bibliographicum announces their new address to be 
38 Eidmattstrasse, Ziirich-Neumunster. The new house contains a 
press room in the basement, offices, storerooms, and composing 
rooms in two upper stories. Dr. J. Dewitz has been appointed resident 
assistant and Dr. L. Lalry correspondent. 
The board of estimate and apportionment for the City of New 
York has set aside $63,000 for the zodlogical garden in Bronx Park. 
It is also proposed to raise the appropriation for the American 
Museum of Natural History from $90,000 to $130,000 a year. 
Dr. Adolph Fick, professor of physiology in the University of 
Wiirzburg, has resigned at the age of seventy years. 
Several graduate fellowships and scholarships in scientific depart- 
ments are vacant this spring at the University of Nebraska. Holders 
of these positions are expected to give a certain portion of their time 
to assistance in the department in which they are working. 
Appointments : Vidal de la Blache, professor of geography in the 
University of Paris. — Mr. Joseph Barrell, instructor in geology and 
lithology in Lehigh University, South Bethlehem, Penn. — G. Gilbert 
Cullis, assistant professor of geology in the Royal College of Science, 
South Kensington, London.— Ulric Dahlgren, assistant professor 
of histology in Princeton University. — Dr. William Morris Davis, 
Sturgis-Hooper professor of geology in Harvard University. — A. W. 
Hill, demonstrator in botany in the University of Cambridge. — Dr. 
Moritz Hoernes, professor extraordinarius of prehistoric archxology 
in the University of Vienna. — Dr. Robert Tracy Jackson, assistant 
professor of paleontology in Harvard University. — Dr. Bengst Johns- 
