970 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. (VOL. XXXII. 
The biological and geological departments of the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology have moved into their new quarters in the 
Pierce Building recently erected. For years they have been in very 
cramped quarters. 
In the Journal of Applied Microscopy America at last has a period- 
ical devoted to microscopical technique, etc., worthy of the name. In 
this connection we notice, without regret, the decease of one of our 
alleged microscopical journals. 
The French Association for the Advancement of Science has funds 
amounting to $220,000. Its income during the past year was over 
$20,000, and it granted more than $8000 at its meeting this year for 
scientific purposes. : 
As we are about to go to press the sad intelligence reaches us of 
the death of Dr. James I. Peck, assistant professor of biology in 
Williams College and assistant director of the Marine Biological 
Laboratory at Woods Holl. 
Recent appointments: Prof. F. Blochmann, of Rostock, professor 
of zoology in the University of Tübingen. — Dr. L. Bordas, chief of 
zoological work in the faculty of sciences in Marseilles. — Antonio 
Borzi, professor of zoology and comparative anatomy in the Univer- 
sity of Palermo, as successor to Kleinenberg. — Dr. T. D. A. Cockerell, 
professor of entomology in the New Mexico Agricultural College. — 
Dr. Rudolf Disselhorst, professor of animal physiology in the Univer- 
sity of Halle.—Dr. A. Fleischmann, professor of zoology in the 
University of Erlangen.— Dr. C. Fritsch, director of the botanical 
collections of the University of Vienna.—M. Albert Gaillard, curator 
of the Lloyd herbarium at Angers, France.— Edwin S. Goodrich, 
demonstrator of anatomy in the University of Oxford. — Dr. D. Frazer 
Harris, lecturer in physiology in the University of St. Andrews. — 
Dr. Ernst Kalkowsky, director of the mineralogical, geological, and 
archeological collections in Dresden. — Dr. Keller, professor of 
zoology in the Polytechnicum at Zürich. — Dr. Kerschner, professor 
of histology in the University of Innsbruck. — Dr. Kolkwitz, privat 
docent in botany in the University of Berlin. — Alberto Lofgren, 
director of the botanical gardens at Sao Paulo, Brazil. — Charles 
P. Lounsbury, of Amherst, Mass., government entomologist at Cape 
Town, Africa. — Mr. J. H. McGregor, assistant in zoology in Colum- 
bian University. — Dr. M. von Minder, assistant in botany in the 
University of Giessen. — Dr. Mrensbier, professor extraordinarius of 
