96 The American Naturalist. [January,. 
Dr. Carl von Heider, formerly of Berlin, has been called as ordi- 
nary professor of zoology, and Dr. M. von Leuhossek of Würzburg as- 
professor of anatomy, at Innsbruch. 
Dr. R. von Lendenfeld becomes ordinary professor of zoology in 
Czernowitz. 
Dr. Schewiakoff of Heidelberg goes as assistant in the Zoological 
Institute of St. Petersburg. 
A. C. Gill has been appointed assistant professor of mineralogy and 
petrology at Cornell University, and Gilbert D. Harris assistant pro- 
fessor of Paleontology at the same institution. 
Miss L. C. Deane has been appointed instructor in biology at Vassar 
College. 
At Wellesley College the following appointments have been made: 
Edith J. Claypole and Miss Hubbard, instructors in physiology ; Eliz- 
abeth F. Fisher, instructor in geology and mineralogy. 
Charles S. Prosser, formerly instructor at Cornell University, has 
been called to the chair of geology in Union College. 
Dr. W. S. Nickerson is occupying (ad interim) the chair of biology 
and histology in the University of Colorado at Boulder. 
Recent Deaths.—Prof. Paul Albrecht, vertebrate anatomist, of 
Hamburg, Sept. 15, 1894. Dr.C. M. von Bauernfeind, Director of the 
Technical School of Munich, August 2, 1894. Prof. Friedrich Bidder, 
physiologist, of Dorpat, August 31, 1894, aged 84 years. G. Cotteau, 
student of Echinoderms, of Auxiere, at Paris, August 10,1894. Prof. 
A. Hannover, anatomist, at Copenhagen, July 8, 1894, aged 80. Sal- 
omon Herzenstein, Conservator of the Zoological Museum of St. Pe- 
tersburg, ichthyologist, August 19, 1894, aged 40. A.F. Kuwert, 
coleopterist, at Wernsdorf in Prussia, August 15,1894. Prof. Michele 
Lessona, zoologist, at Turin, July 20, 1894, aged 71. F. E. Mallard, 
mineralogist and crystallographer, at Paris, July 6, 1894. Prof. 
Natanael Pringsheim, the well-known botanist, at Berlin, October 6, 
1894, aged 70. Baron Gerhard-Maydell-Stenhusen, botanist and Si- 
berian explorer, at Bad Ems, August 18, 1894. W. Topley, geologist, 
at London, Sept. 30, 1894, aged 53. 
