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States, which became his home until his death, although he made 
several longer or shorter visits to Europe. He published several 
books and many shorter papers upon the geology of the United 
States. 
Sir William Turner, professor of anatomy in the University of 
Edinburg, has been elected corresponding member of the Academy 
of Sciences of Berlin. 
Lawrence Bruner, state entomologist, and professor of entomology 
in the University of Nebraska, has returned from his year spent in the 
Argentine Republic, where he has been studying the locust plague. 
The University of Nebraska will maintain a summer school this 
summer, offering eighteen courses, among them botany, zoology, 
entomology, and geology. The session will extend from June 6 
to July 16. 
Mr. E. H. Lonsdale died March 7 at Columbia, Mo. From an 
obituary sketch by Dr. C. R. Keyes in the American Geologist, we 
learn that Mr. Lonsdale was born in 1868, educated at the University 
of Missouri. He was connected at two different times with the 
geological survey of his native state and with the geological survey 
of Iowa. At the time of his death he was a member of the staff of 
the United States Geological Survey. He published several papers 
of the Geology of Missouri and Iowa, and at the time of his death 
was at work at a large report on the clays of the latter state. 
The University of Chicago has made the following appointments to 
fellowships: Anthropology, A. W. Dunn; Geology, C. E. Siebenthal, 
W. N. Logan, J. W. Finch, R. George; Zoology, H. H. Newmann, 
H. E. Davis, R. S. Lillie, M. F. Guyer, Emily R. Gregory; Neurology, 
I. Hardsty; Archæology, Caroline L. Ransom; Botany, W. R. Smith. 
Prof. David S. Kellicott, of the University of Ohio, died at his home 
in Columbus, April 13, aged about 48 years. For several years he 
was engaged in teaching Natural History in the State Normal School 
at Buffalo, N.Y., and while there he held various offices in the 
Buffalo Society of Natural Science. In 1888 he was called to the 
chair of zoology in the Ohio State University as successor to Albert 
H. Tuttle. His work was largely in the lines of the Protozoa, fresh- 
water sponges, and the Odonata, of which he described many new 
forms. He had been elected General Secretary of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science to serve at the fiftieth 
anniversary meeting this year in Boston. 
