NEWS. 759 
A compromise has been effected by which the Academy of Natural 
Sciences of Philadelphia receives one-half of the bequest of $300,000 
left it by the late Dr. Robert Lamborn. 
Vassar College has been promised $25,000 towards a biological 
laboratory on condition that another similar amount be raised for the 
same purpose. 
The death of Dr. Axel Goes, of Stockholm, Sweden, which occurred 
in August, 1887, has remained unchronicled in scientific journals 
until recently. He was well known for his researches on Crustacea 
and Rhizopods. He was 62 years of age. 
Professor Douglas H. Campbell, of Leland Stanford University, and 
Dr. B. M. Duggar, of Cornell University, will spend the coming year 
in Europe. 
Appointments to Fellowships: Johns Hopkins University: Lawrence 
Edmonds Griffin, zoology; Joseph Cawdell Herrick, physiology; 
George Burr Richardson and Richard Burton Rowe, geology. Bryn 
Mawr: Miss Elizabeth Towle, biology. Tufts College: Mr. Harrison 
S. Allen and Mr. George F. Morton, biology. 
The following appointments in zodlogy have been made at Harvard 
University: Dr. F. W. Bancroft, Parker Fellowship; H. W. Rand, 
Virginia Barrett Gibbs Scholarship. C. W. Prentiss, S. R. Williams, 
and W. A. Willard have been appointed assistants in zodlogy. 
H. M. Benedict, formerly Fellow in zodlogy at the University of 
Nebraska, has been chosen head of the Biological Department of the 
Nebraska State Normal at Peru. 
Emerson E. McMillin has given the Ohio Academy of Science 
$250 with which to carry on scientific investigations, and declared 
his intention of giving the same amount annually, if the money is 
wisely expended. During the last session of the legislature, the 
academy put forth strong efforts to secure an appropriation for a 
topographic survey of the state to be undertaken in coöperation with 
the U. S. Geological Survey. The bill passed the Senate, but did 
not come to a vote in the House. 
Appointments: Marshall A. Barber, associate professor of crypto- 
gamic botany in the University of Kansas. — Miss Annie I. Barrows, 
assistant in zodlogy in Smith College. — Dr. George A. Bates, 
professor of histology in the Tufts College Dental School. — Mr. 
John G. Coulter, instructor in botany in Syracuse University. — 
