NEWS. 
THE American Museum of Natural History of New York has had 
twenty-three representatives in the field during the past summer. 
A monument to Johannes Miiller was unveiled at Coblenz, his 
birthplace, on October 2. The principal address was given by Pro- 
fessor Waldeyer. 
Sir John William Dawson died November 19. He was born in 
Pictou, N.S., Oct. 13, 1820. He was educated there and in Edin- 
burgh. In 1842 he accompanied Lyell in his tour through the 
United States. In 1855 he became principal of McGill College, at 
Montreal. His work was largely in geological lines, and his most 
important contributions related to the geology of the maritime prov- 
inces. He published a large number of popular works, mostly upon 
geology and in opposition to the theory of evolution, of which, among 
scientific men, he was about the last opponent. He was knighted 
for his work in 1885. 
Professor L. V. Pirsson, of Yale, succeeds the late Professor 
Marsh as one of the associate editors of the American Journal of 
Science. 
The New York Zoological Gardens were formally. opened Novem- 
ber 8. They now contain 850 animals. 
Appointments : Rollo K. Beatie, instructor in botany in the Agri- 
cultural College of Washington. — Dr. August N. Berlese, professor 
of natural sciences in the Royal Lyceum at Camerino, Italy. — M. 
Chatin, professor of histology in the faculty of sciences at the Sor- 
bonne, Paris. — Alessandro Coggi, professor of zodlogy in the Uni- 
versity of Siena. — Dr. Edward D. Copeland, assistant professor of 
botany in the University of West Virginia. — Dr. Carl E. Correns, 
professor extraordinarius of botany in the University of Tiibingen. 
— Edgar R. Cummings, instructor in geology in Indiana University. 
— Dr. G. V. N. Dearborn, assistant in physiology in the Harvard 
Medical School. — Professor J. B. De Torri, of Padua, professor of 
botany in the University of Camerino. — Dr. Sigmund Fuchs, pro- 
fessor of anatomy and physiology in the Vienna Agricultural Station. 
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