470 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [VoL. XXXII. 
Is there anything in connection with science more exasperating 
than the attitude of the present city government of New York? The 
discharge of Dr. T. H. Bean from the directorship of the recently 
established aquarium, and his replacement by Col. James E. Jones, 
is one of the worst cases of the doctrine “to the victors belong the 
spoils ” that has yet been brought to our notice. 
Yale University desires funds for a building for physiological 
chemistry and for the completion of the Peabody Museum of Natural 
History. 
The Smithsonian Institution has just issued a new edition of the 
catalogue of publications, issued under its auspices, with the prices at 
which those now in stock can be had. The total number of titles 
enumerated amounts to over 1000. 
Prof. J. S. Kingsley goes with a party of Tufts College students to 
South Harpswell, Maine, for the summer. A house has been hired, 
and will be equipped as a laboratory. 
The University of Berlin has conferred the degree of Doctor of 
Laws upon Prof. J. Victor Carus, the well-known editor of the Zoo/o 
gischer Anzeiger. 
Profs. Alphonse Milne Edwards and Raphael Blanchard will attend 
the International Zoological Congress, at Cambridge, as delegates 
from the University of Paris. 
The University of Chicago has under consideration the establish- 
ment of a series of fellowships of the annual value of $750, to be 
granted to students who have received the degree of Doctor of 
Philosophy from that institution. These fellows are to devote their 
time solely to investigation. The fellowships are to be awarded 
annually, but incumbents will be eligible to reélection for a period 
not to exceed five years. Such a series of fellowships will be a great 
stimulus to research. 
Prof. Friedrich Kérnicke has resigned the chair of botany at the 
Poppelsdorf Agricultural School, connected with the University of 
Recent appointments: Prof. W. P. Blake, of Tucson, geologist of 
Arizona. — Mr. E. G. Coghill, of Brown University, assistant in biology 
in the University of New Mexico. — Mr. F. S. Maltby, of Johns Hop- 
kins University, assistant in the bacteriological laboratory of the 
