NEWS. 625 
An index to the first thirty volumes of the Jenaische Zeitschrift fiir 
Naturwissenschaft has just been issued. A few months ago a similar 
index to Vols. XLI-LX of the Zeitschrift fur wissenschaftliche Zoologie 
was published. Both indices are very complete and detailed. 
Dr. F. W. C. Areschoug, for many years professor of botany in the 
University of Lund, Sweden, has resigned. 
Professor Douglas Houghton Campbell, of Leland Stanford Uni- 
versity, will spend the coming year in Europe, on leave of absence. 
The next meeting of the American Society of Naturalists will be 
held at New Haven, Conn. Most of the affiliated societies have 
signified their intention of meeting at the same place. 
Appointments: Marshall A. Barber, assistant professor of bacteri- 
ology in the University of Kansas. — Mr. Joseph Bancroft, a physi- 
ologist, fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. — Dr. Bergen, professor 
of geology and mineralogy in the Mining School at Klausthal. — 
W. J. Blankinship, professor of botany in the Agricultural College of 
Montana. — Dr. W. von Branco, of Hohenheim, professor of geology 
and paleontology in the University of Berlin. — I. H. Burkill, assist- 
ant to the director of the Kew Gardens. — Dr. Calmette, professor 
of bacteriology in the medical faculty at Lille, France. — Dr. Otto 
Cohnheim, privat-docent for physiology in the University of Heidel- 
berg. — Dr. Dove, professor of botany in the University of Jena. — 
Dr. Erich von Drygalski, professor of geography in the University of 
Berlin. — J. Dybowski, of Paris, director of the newly established 
Colonial Gardens at Vincennes, France. — Dr. Eggeling, privat-docent 
for comparative anatomy and embryology in the University of Strass- 
burg. — Dr. Ferdinand Filarsky, custodian of the botanical section of 
the Hungarian National Museum at Budapest. — Dr. Hugo Fischer, 
privat-docent for botany in the University of Bonn. — Dr. Jakob Friih, 
professor of geography in the Ziirich Polytechnicum. — Mr. E. E. 
Green, entomologist of the agricultural department of Ceylon, with 
headquarters at Peradeniya. — Dr. A. Y. Grevillius, assistant in 
botany in the Kempen (Germany) Agricultural Experiment Station. 
— Dr. David Frazer Harris, tutor in physiology in the University of 
St. Andrews, Scotland. — A. L. van Hasselt, professor of ethnology 
in the Indian Institute at Delft, Holland. — Dr. Curt Hassert, pro- 
fessor of geography in the University of Tübingen. — W. Botting 
Hemsley, director of the Kew Herbarium. — Dr. Anton Herrmann, 
privat-docent for anthropology in the University of Klausenberg, 
