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1891.] ; Scientific News. 853 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
There has been no little change among biologists in the United 
States during the present year. The opening of the Leland Stanford, 
Jr., University made a number of new positions. Dr. D. S. Jordan, the 
president of Indiana University, was called to the presidency of the new 
institution, and so far he has announced the following natural science 
aculty : J. C. Branner, of Indiana University, professor of geology ; 
O. P. Jenkins, of De Pauw University, professor of physiology and his- 
tology; J. H. Comstock, of Cornell, non-resident professor of ento- 
mology ; C. H. Gilbert, of Indiana University, professor of vertebrate 
zoology ; D.H. Campbell, of Indiana University, professor of crypto- 
gamic botany. Prof. J. M. Coulter, of Wabash College, accepted the 
presidency of Indiana University ; C. H. Eigenmann is appointed pro- 
fessor of zoology, and David Mottier instructor in morphological botany, 
in Indiana University. Prof. L Underwood, of Syracuse University, 
goes to De Pauw to take the place vacated by Dr. Jenkins; and Prof. 
C. H. Hargitt and Mr. O. F. Cook are promoted to the chairs of 
biology in Syracuse University. Dr. Bleile has been elected professor 
of comparative anatomy and physiology in Ohio State University. 
Professor H. F. Osborn, of Princeton, has been elected professor of 
vertebrate zoology, and Prof. E. B. Wilson, of Bryn Mawr, associate 
professor of invertebrate zoology, in Columbia College. Prof. E. H. 
Barbour, of Iowa College, has been appointed associate professor of 
geology in the University of Nebraska; and H. W. Norris goes to Iowa 
College as professor of natural history. 
Dr. Franz von Wagner is a oi prat docent in the University of Strass- 
burg. 
Peter Martin Duncan, the well-known student of fossil Coelenterates 
and Echinoderms, died in London, May 28th, 1891. 
Professor Chun’s place in Königsberg is taken by Dr. Max Braun, 
of Rostock, while Dr. Fr. Blochman goes to the zoological chair in 
Rostock, 
Edmond André, the student “te the Hymenoptera, died at Braune, 
January 11th, 1891. 
_ Dr. A. Viallanes has been appointed director of the zoological 
station at Arcachon, France. 

