1895.] Scientific News. 95 
Dr. H. Solereder has been appointed custodian of the botanical col- 
dacthnt at Munich. 
Dr. Zimmermann has been made professor extraordinarius of bot- 
any at Tübingen. 
Dr. Filhol is the professor of comparative anatomy at the Museum 
of Natural History at Paris, succeeding Pouchet 
Dr. A. Oppel has been AISNE extraordinarius in embryology 
and microscopy at Freiburg, i. 
Dr. E. Stolley has been-appointed docent in Geology at Kiel. 
Major C. L. Griesbach, for twenty years connected with the survey, 
has been appointed director of the Geological Survey of India. 
A new biological journal has appeared in Germany, the “ Archiv für 
Entwichlungsmechanik ” edited ‘by Prof. Wilhelm Roux of Innsbruck 
and issued by the house of Engelmann in Leipzig. The first number 
contains the following papers. Roux, Cytotropismus of the blastomeres 
of Rana fusca; Ribbert, compensational hypertrophy and regeneration ; 
Barfurth, experimental regeneration of superfluous limbs in Amphibia ; 
Barfurth, are the limbs of frogs capable of regeneration? Tournier, 
origin of joint forms. The first number is illustrated by 7 plates and 
costs 10 marks. Each volume will contain about 650 pages. 
An appreciative sketch of the late Dr. H. A. Hagen by Samuel 
Henshaw appears in vol. xxix of the Proceedings of the American 
Academy of Arts and Sciences. 
Dr. Altmann has been made professor extraordinarius of Botany at 
Freiburg iB. 
Dr. Ed. Holzapfel has been appointed professor of Geology and 
Paleontology in the technical school at Aix la Chapelle 
Dr. Rudolf Burckhardt, formerly of Berlin, is now extraordinary pro- 
fessor of comparative anatomy at Basel. 
Dr. Erich Haase, the well-known student of myriapods, died in Siam, 
in the last of May. 
Prof. J. Jiigge, director of the botanical museum at Ziirich, died 
June 21, 1894. a 
Dr. O. Th. Sandahl, the physiologist, died at Stockholm, June 22. 
Dr. Paul Albrecht, of Hamburg, is dead. 
