SCIENTIFIC NEWS, _ 887 
t the annual meeting of the Marine Biological Laboratory at 
aya Holl, August 9, the following trustees were elected to serve 
for four years: E. G. Conklin, Camillus G. Kidder, Maynard M. 
Metcalf, William Patten, D. P. Penhallow, and W. B. Scott. The 
other trustees hold over. The officers elected were: Henry F. Osborn, 
president ; Charles O. Whitman, director ; James I. Peck, assistant 
director; Hermon C. Bumpus, secretary; and D. Blakely Hoar, 
treasurer. It is hoped that when the books for the year are closed 
there will be no deficit. 
Mrs. Emmons Blaine has given $250,000 to Chicago University 
for the establishment of a College for Teachers. 
The Hayden geological medal of the Academy of Natural Sciences 
of Philadelphia was awarded for the year 1898 to Dr. Otto Martin 
Thorell, director. of the Geological Survey of Sweden. 
About 200 attended the International Mining Congress at Salt 
Lake City last July. The meeting was scarcely international except 
in name. The next congress will be held in Milwaukee in 1899. 
Dr. O. Seydel, lecturer on osteology in the University of Amster- 
dam, well known for his researches on the Organ of Jacobson, has 
resigned and returned to Germany. 
Lionel S. Wiglesworth, having completed his work on the birds 
of Celebes, has resigned his position as assistant in the zoological 
museum at Dresden. 
Those familiar with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 
delphia know-how deeply it is indebted to the late Joseph Jeanes 
and his brother. His sister, Miss Anna T. Jeanes, has recently given 
the academy $20,000, the income to be used for museum purposes. 
The following appointments have been announced : Dr. Cleveland 
Abbe, Jr., professor of geology in Western Maryland College. — 
N. Andrussow, professor extraordinarius of geology and paleontology 
in the University of Dorpat. — Dr. F. J. Becker, of Prag, professor 
of mineralogy in the University of Vienna. — Dr. Johannes Behrens, 
extraordinary professor of botany in the technical school at Karlsruhe. 
— Dr. Max Blanckenhorn, of Erlangen, assistant on the Geological 
Survey of Egypt. — Dr. Bohmig, professor extraordinarius of zoology 
in the University of Gratz. — Herbert Bolton, of Manchester, curator 
of the museum at Bristol, England. — Dr. A. Bühler, privat-docent 
for anatomy in the University of Würzburg. — Prof. Ladislaus 
