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collections which the company has been accumulating for many years. 
The ethnological portion of the collection is especially rich, and 
doubtless one of the best in existence. The collection also embraces 
fossil remains of mammoth, and many skins and mounted specimens 
‘of birds and mammals and invertebrates of the Alaskan region. 
Recent Appointments: Miss Agnes May Claypole, of Wellesley, 
assistant in histology and comparative physiology in Cornell Univer- 
sity. — Dr. F. E. Clements, instructor in botany in the University of 
Nebraska. — Dr. W. McM. Woodworth has been appointed assistant 
in charge of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge. 
Appointments to fellowships: University of Nebraska, Albert B. 
Lewis and Charles C. Morrison in zoology, Cassius A. Fisher in 
geology, Albert T. Bell and Cora F. Smith in botany. — Johns 
Hopkins University, Dr. Gilman A. Drew, Bruce fellow in biology. 
The following appointments to fellowships have been made by 
Harvard University : Parker fellowship for non-resident study, Frank 
Watts Bancroft, zoology. — Morgan fellowships, Amadeus William 
Grabau, paleontology ; Edward Charles Jeffrey, botany. 
The following appointments have been made at the University of 
Illinois: Mr. C. W. Young, B.S., assistant in botany; Mr. Wallace 
Craig, B.S., assistant in the State Laboratory of Natural History at 
Illinois Biological Station, Havana, Ill.; Mr. E. B. Forbes, B.S., field 
entomologist of the State Laboratory of Natural History; Dr. J. P. 
Hylan, assistant professor of psychology; Dr. C. A. Kofoid, assist- 
ant professor of zoology. — Mr. C. F. Hottes, M.S., assistant in 
botany, goes to Bonn and Leipzig for botanical study. 
Recent deaths: Dr. Theodor Eimer, professor of zoology in 
the University of Tiibingen, and a well-known advocate of Neo- 
Lamarckian views, May 29.—C. W. A. Hermann, mineralogist, in 
New York, June 21, aged 97. 
