682 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [Vow. XXXIII. 
French and German governments were present. The museum is 
intended to contain the collections of the yacht Princess Alice, which 
for several years has been engaged in the study of the fauna of the 
deep seas. 
Columbia University has recently received $10,000, to be known as 
the Dyckman Fund, the interest of which will be used in the encour- 
agement of biological research on the part of graduate students. 
Mr. J. Dorfler, Barichgasse 36, Wien, III, Austria, is preparing a 
new edition of his directory of botanists, which will be issued about 
the first of next year. 
A school of geography is about to be established in the University 
of Oxford through the cooperation of the university and the Royal 
Geographical Society, each institution to bear half of the expense. 
It will be under the direction of Mr. H. J. Mackinder, who has held 
the position of reader in geography for the past twelve years. 
Mr. F. V. Bennett has resigned from the Geological Survey of the 
United Kingdom after a service of over thirty years. 
Dr. Adolf Fich, professor of physiology in the University of 
Würzburg, has resigned on account of age. 
The Naturalists’ Directory will be reédited for 1899 by S. E. Cassino. 
Appointments: Dr. A. P. Anderson, assistant professor of botany 
in the University of Minnesota. — Dr. Wilhelm Benecke, of Strass- 
burg, docent for botany in the University of Kiel. — Dr. Alfred 
Bergeat, of Munich, professor of mineralogy and geology in the min- 
ing academy at Clausthal. — Dr. Franz Boas, professor of anthropol- 
ogy in Columbia University. —Professor Alessandro Coggi, of Perugia, 
professor of zoology and comparative anatomy in the University of 
Sienna, — Dr. Nikolaus Karl Czermak, professor of anatomy, histol- 
ogy, and embryology in the University of Dorpat. — Dr. von Elterlein, 
docent for mineralogy and geology in the University of Erlangen. — 
Dr. Enrico Festa, assistant in the zodlogical museum of the Univer- 
sity of Turin, — Dr. Alberto Fucini, docent for paleontology and geol- 
ogy in the University of Pisa. — Dr. Ercole Giacomini, of Sienna, 
associate-professor of zodlogy and comparative anatomy in the Uni- 
versity of Perugia.— Dr. Hugo Gliick, docent for botany in the 
University of Heidelberg. — Dr. J. M. Janse, director of the botanical 
gardens at Leiden. — Dr. Max Koch, of Berlin, titular professor of 
geology. — Dr. A. C. Lane, state geologist of Michigan. — Dr. G. 
Lindau, custos of the Royal Botanical Museum in Berlin, — Albert 
