528 Tlie American Naturalist [June, 



Mr. F. E. Willey, formerly of the Kew Botanical Gardens, has gone 

 to Sierra Leone, West Africa, as director of the botanical gardens 

 there. 



Prof. O. Biitschli, of Heidelberg, has been elected president of the 

 German Zoological Society for the years 1896 and 1897. 



Dr. M. von Lenhossek has been advanced to the position of professor 

 extraordinarius in the University of Tubingen. 



Dr. Dannenberor is now privat docent for Mineralogy and Geology 

 in the technical school at Aix-la-Chapelle. 



A. Quadri, Professor of Zoology in the University of Siena, Italy, 

 died December 25th, 1895. 



Mr. H. T. Wharton, a well known English ornithologist, died 

 recently at the age of 50. 



Prof. F. Chatin, has been elected Vice-President of the French, 

 Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. O. L. zur Strassen is now private docent for Zoology in the 

 University of Leipzig. 



Dr. A. Weiss has been appointed a.-sistant in Mineralogy in the Uni- 

 versity of Greifswald. 



Dr. Jean Mailer, Director of the Botanical gardens of Geneva, is 

 dead at the age of 68. 



Dr. F. von Wagner, of Graz, goes to Giessen as assistant in the 

 zoological institute. 



Dr. A. N. Beketow, of St. Petersburg, has resigned from the chair 

 of botany there. 



Dr. P. Vuillemin has been appointed to the chair of botany at 

 Nancy. France. 



Dr. P. Voglino has been appointed Docent in Botany in the Univer- 

 sity of Turin. 



Dr. F. Dahl, of Kiel, has gone to New Guinea, to study the flora 

 and fauna. 



Dr. P. Knuth, of Kiel, has received the title of Professor of Botany. 



J. B. Wilson, botanist, of Gerlong, Victoria, died October 22, 1895. 



Dr. L. Jacoby, ichthyologist, of Zurich, Switzerland, is dead. 



The botanist Prof. K. Rattlef, died recently. 



