NEWS. 
Dr. WILHELM von AHLES, professor of botany in the technical 
school at Stuttgart, has resigned. 
Dr. A. B. Meyer, director of the zodlogical and ethnological 
museums in Dresden, has been in this country studying museum 
construction and administration. He was sent by the Saxon 
government. 
Mr. J. W. Hendric has given the California Academy of Sciences 
$10,000 to constitute a publication fund. 
At the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Holl, Mass., during 
the past summer the attendance was as follows: investigators, 58 ; 
embryology, 21; morphology, 32; physiology, 9 ; botany, 26; a total 
of 146. 
Recent appointments: Professor W. Branco, of Hohenheim, pro- 
fessor of geology in the University of Berlin. — Dr. Karl Josef Erich 
Cowens, professor extraordinarius of botany in the University of 
Tiibingen. — Dr. Wilhelm Figdor, docent for anatomy and physiology 
of plants in the University of Vienna. — Frederick P. Gorham, assist- 
ant professor of biology in Brown University.— Dr. James L. Kellogg, 
of Olivet, Mich., assistant professor of biology in Williams College. — 
A. F. Stanley Kent, professor of physiology in University College, 
Bristol, England. — Albert B. Lewis, instructor in zodlogy in the Uni- 
versity of Nebraska. — Annie Lyons, assistant in zodlogy in Smith 
College. — Dr. Johannes Meisenheimer, docent for embryology in the 
University of Marburg. — Dr. G. Sclavunos, professor of anatomy in 
the University of Athens. — Dr. Wilhelm Sklarek, editor of the Natur- 
wissenschaftliche Rundschau, titular professor. — Dr. Felice Supino, 
assistant in the zoological laboratory of the University of Rome. — 
Ralph W. Tower, assistant professor of chemical physiology in Brown 
University. — Dr. Arthur Willey, lecturer on biology in Guy’s Hospital, 
London. — Robert H. Wolcott, adjunct professor of zodlogy in the 
University of Nebraska.— Dr. Ernst Anton Wiilfing, of Tübingen, 
professor of geology and mineralogy in the Agricultural Institute at 
Hohenheim. 
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