The American Naturalist. 



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Dr. Looas, for several years docent in the University of Leipzig, 

 has been advanced to the position of Extraordinary Professor. 



Dr. E. Sickenberger, Professor of Botany and Chemistry in the 

 medical school of Cairo, Egypt, died December 10th, 1895. 



Dr. F. Saccardo, has bee 

 in the school of Oenology t 



Dr. P. Tauber, of Berlin, has sailed for South America intending to 

 study the plants of Brazil, Venezuela and Guinea. 



Dr. G. Wagener, Professor of Anatomy in the University of Mar- 

 burg, died February 10th, 1896, at the age of 70. 



Dr. F. Hochstetter, formerly of Vienna, goes to the University of 

 Innsbruck, as ordinary Professor of Anatomy. 



Dr. Katzer, has been elected Director of the Mineralogical-Geo- 

 logical section of the Museum of Para, Brazil. 



Dr. L. Neumann has been appointed Ordinary Professor of 

 Geography at the University of Freiberg. 



Dr. E. Topsent, of Rheims, has been called to the chair of zoology 

 in the Medical School at Rennes, France. 



Dr. Seidentopf, of Bremen, has been appointed Assistant in Miner- 

 ology in the University of Gottingen. 



Dr. G. Horvath of Budapesth has been appointed Director of the 

 Royal Hungarian Museum, zoological section. 



Lieut H. E. Barnes, well known through his studies of Asiatic 

 ornithology, died recently at the age of 48. 



Dr. A. Schadmberg, an investigator of the flora and ethnology of 

 the Philippines, died recently in Manila. 



Count J. von Bergenstamn, the well known student of the Diptera, 

 died January 31, 1896 in Vienna. 



Dr. A. Zimmermann, becomes Private docent in Vegetable Physiol- 

 ogy in the University of Berlin. 



Dr. L. Buscalone, of Turin, goes to the University of Gottingen as 

 Assistant in Plant Physiology. 



G. C. Druce has been elected Custodian of the Fielding herbarium 

 of the University of Oxford. 



