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during June, July and August. An incidental fee of $5.00 a month 

 will be charged, and no application for tables should be made for less 

 than two weeks. Board and rooms can be had in Havana at from 

 $4.00 to $5.00 a week. All applications should be addressed to the 

 Director, Professor S. A. Forbes, Urbana, 111. 



The announcement is made that Professor Marshall Ward has been 

 elected to the Chair of Botany in the University of Cambridge, Eng- 

 land, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death (July 22, 1895) of the 

 venerable Professor C. C. Babington. 



The University of Cambridge receives the botanical collection of the 

 late Professor Babington. 



Mr. F. B. Stead, of Cambridge, England, has been appointed to carry 

 on the investigations of the fisheries at the Plymouth Laboratory, and 

 Mr. T. V. Hodgson as Director's Assistant in the same institution. 



After an interregnum of several years, Washburn University, 

 Topeka, Kan., has appointed Dr. G. P. Grimsby, of Columbus, Ohio, 

 to the Chair of Geology and Natural History. 



Drs. Walter B. Rankin and C. F. W. McClure, of Princeton, have 

 been advanced to Professorships in Biology in the College of New 



The Government of the Cape of Good Hope has recently established 

 a geological commission to carry on a survey of that region. 



Dr. R. H. True has been appointed Instructor in Pharmacognostical 

 Botany in the University of Wisconsin. 



ado, is called to the Chair of Geology in 



Dr. R. Metzner has been elected Professor of Physiology in the Uni- 

 versity of Barcelona. 



Dr. Dalle-Torre is now Assistant Professor of Zoology in the Uni- 

 versity of Innsbruck. 



Dr. Hans Lenk has been appointed Professor of Geology in Er- 

 langen. 



Dr. Ducleaux has been elected President of the Pasteur Institute. 



