620 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. 
in the University of Zurich. — Professor Kalkowsky, director of the 
Mineralogical, Geological, and Ethnological Museum at Dresden. — 
Gräfin Maria von Linden, second assistant in zoology in the Univer- 
sity of Tubingen. — Dr. William Pollard, assistant petrologist of the 
Geological Survey of Great Britain, at Jermyn Street, London.— 
H. J. Seymour, assistant petrologist of the Geological Survey of Great — 
Britain, at Dublin. — Prof. Herbert Osborn, formerly of the Iowa Ag- 
ricultural College, has been appointed to the chair of zodlogy at Ohio 
State University, left vacant by the death of Professor Kellicott. — 
Dr. C. O. Townsend, formerly instructor in botany at Barnard Col- 
lege, has recently been elected botanist and plant pathologist for the 
state of Maryland. — C. B. Wedd, assistant geologist of the Geolog- 
ical Survey of Great Britain. — K. M. Wiegand, assistant in botany 
in Cornell University. — Dr. E. Zacharias, director of the Botanical 
Gardens at Hamburg. 
Recent deaths: Maurice Hovelacque, secretary of the Geological 
Society of Paris.— Dr. C. Herbert Hurst, zodlogist, formerly of 
Owens College, Manchester, and more recently demonstrator in 
zoology in the Royal College of Science, Dublin. — W. C. Lucy, an 
English geologist, May 11, aged 75. — W. M. Maskell, entomologist 
in New Zealand. — Prof. Friedrich Miiller, ethnologist, of Vienna, 
May 25, aged 64. — Edward Wilson, curator of the museum at Bris- 
tol, England, May 21, aged 49. 
