No. 373-] SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 67 
Prof. A. de Lapparent, the mineralogist, has been elected a 
member of the Academy of Sciences of Paris. 
Dr. O. F. von Mollendorf, the conchologist, has removed from 
Manila to Kowno, Russia. 
Sir Frederick McCoy, professor of natural history in the University 
of Melbourne, has resigned. 
Prof. Hans Molisch, of Pe has gone to Buitenzorg, Java, for 
the winter. 
Dr. Hugo de Vries has decided not to accept the call to the chair 
of botany at Wiirzburg left vacant by the death of Sachs. 
Dr. O. Loew, of the botanical department of the University of 
Tokyo, has resigned on account of ill health. 
We notice the following appointments and advancements of natu- 
ralists: Dr. Nikolaus von Adelung, of Geneva, conservator of the 
zoological collections of the Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg. 
— Raphael Blanchard, professor of medical natural history in the 
medical faculty of Paris. — Dr. A. Borgert, privat docent in zoology 
in the University of Bonn.— Dr. William S. Carter, professor of 
physiology in the University of Texas. — Dr. Anton Collin, custodian 
of the zoological collections in the Natural History Museum in Berlin. 
— Dr. W. Detmer, full professor of botany in the University of Jena. 
— Karl Diener, extraordinary professor of geology in the University 
of Vienna. — Dr. Erwin von Esmarch, professor of hygiene and 
bacteriology in the University of Königsberg. — Dr. Max von Frey, 
of Leipzig, professor of physiology in the University of Ziirich.— Dr. 
John Y. Graham, of Princeton, professor of biology in the University 
of Alabama. — Dr. H. F. Harris, professor of bacteriology in Jefferson 
Medical College. — Dr. B. Hatschek, of Prague, professor of zoology 
in the University of Vienna. — Dr. Robert Hegler, privat docent in 
botany in the University of Rostock. — Joaquin Gonzalez Hidalgo, 
professor of mineralogy in the University of Madrid. — Mr. H. Hig- 
gins, demonstrator of anatomy in the University of Cambridge. — 
Dr. Kaiser, privat docent in mineralogy in the University of Bonn, — 
J. Graham Kerr, demonstrator in animal morphology in the Bniver- 
sity of Cambridge, vice E. W. McBride. — Dr. Georg Kraus, professor 
of botany in the University of Halle. — Dr. R. von Lendenfeld, of 
Czernowitz, professor of zoology in the German University of Prague. 
— Dr. Felix Ritter von Luschan, assistant in the Natural History 
