144 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST.  [Vow. XXXII. 
Recent appointments: Dr. Gustav von Arthaber, docent in pale- 
ontology in the University of Vienna.—W. L. Bray, professor of 
botany in the University of Texas. — Edgar R. Cummings, instructor 
in geology in the University of Indiana.— Dr. Eugen Czaplewski, 
director of the bacteriological laboratory in Cologne.— Dr. O. V 
Darbishire, docent in botany in the University of Kiel. — W. L. H. 
Duckworth, lecturer upon anthropology in the University of Cam- 
bridge.— Dr. H. Eggeling, assistant in anatomy in the University of 
Wiirzburg. — Dr. S. Fuchs, extraordinary professor of physiology in 
the University of Jena. — Dr. Otto Fuhrmann, of Geneva, extraordi- 
nary professor of zoology at the Academy of Neuchatel. — Dr. Thad- 
daeus von Garbowski, docent in zoology in the University of Vienna. 
— Dr. Geo. T. Kemp, professor of physiology in the University of 
Illinois, Urbana, Ill.— Prof. Gregor Kraus, professor of botany in 
the University of Würzburg. — Dr. Kreidl, docent in physiology in 
the University of Vienna.— Dr. Lehmann-Nitsche, chief of the sec- 
tion of anthropology in the Museum of La Plata. — J. G. Luehman, 
government botanist at Victoria, Australia. — Dr. Alexis Alexander 
Ostroumoff, professor of zoology in the University of Kazan, as suc- 
cessor of Professor Melnikow.— Dr. Gustav Piotrowski, docent in 
physiology in the University of Lemburg, Austria.— Dr. Ludwig 
Plate, titular professor of zoology in the Veterinary School at Berlin. 
— Dr. Hans Rahl, docent in histology in the University of Vienna. 
— Herbert M. Richards, instructor in botany in Columbia Uni- 
versity. — Dr. Guido Schneider, director of the biological station at 
Sebastopol. — Dr. William G. Smith, lecturer in botany in Yorkshire 
College, Leeds, England. — Dr. Julia Snow, instructor in botany in 
the University of Michigan. — Dr. A. A. Tylor, instructor in biology 
in Union College. — Dr. Franz Wagner, professor extraordinary of 
zoology in the University of Giessen. 
Louis V. Pirsson, of New Haven, has been appointed professor of 
physical geology in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, 
not at Harvard, as we stated erroneously in our January number. 
Recent deaths: Samuel Allport, petrologist, in Birmingham, Eng- 
land, July 7, aged 81. — Leopold Auerbach, professor of physiology 
in the University of Breslau, September 30, aged 69.— James Bate- 
man, botanist and author of monographs upon Odontoglossum and 
upon the orchids of Mexico and Guatemala, at Worthington, England, 
November 27, aged 86.— Peter Bellinger Brodie, well known for 
his work on fossil insects, at Rowington, England, November 1, aged 
