NEWS. 
Sır WILLIAM TURNER, of Edinburgh, has been elected president of 
the British Association for the Advancement of Science for the meet- 
ing of 1900. 
Dr. E. V. Wilcox has resigned the chair of zodlogy in the Univer- 
sity of Montana and will accept a place in the Agricultural Department 
at Washington, where he will have charge of the zoological items in 
the Experiment Station Record, a position left vacant by the resigna- 
tion of Dr. F. C. Kenyon. 
The Scientific Alliance of New York now includes eight societies, 
with a total of over rroo members. It has a research fund of $1200 
and $10,000 towards the erection of a building for the accommodation 
of the constituent societies. 
Dr. John W. Harshberger, instructor in botany in the University 
of Pennsylvania, invites subscriptions to his work, Zhe Botanists of 
Philadelphia and their Work. The manuscript is complete and awaits 
subscriptions sufficient to make its publication possible. 
The State University of Ohio maintains a lakeside laboratory this 
summer at Sandusky, Ohio. The laboratory is intended exclusively 
for investigation and no instruction is given. The station is under 
direction of Professor Herbert Osborn of the university. 
A bronze bust of the late Increase A. Lapham was unveiled in the 
Public Museum of Milwaukee, March 7. 
Dr. L. L. Hubbard has resigned his position as state geologist of 
Michigan. 
The University of Nebraska receives $496,000 for the next two 
years, $93,000 of this being for buildings and improvements. 
The University of Chicago has made the following appointments 
to fellowships for the ensuing year: Botany, A. C. Moore, B. E. 
Livingstone, S. M. Coulter, F. M. Lyon; Zodlogy, H. E. Davies, 
R. S. Lillie, F. M. Guyer, H. H. Newman ; Neurology, D. M. Shoe- 
maker; Physiology, R. R. Rogers, W. E. Garvey; R. W. Webster; 
Anthropology, A. W. Dunn ; Geology, W. W. Atwood, W. N. Logan, 
R. George, W. T. Lee, W. G. Tight. 
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