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works on hypnotism, which have given him an international reputa- 
tion, he wrote on fatigue, sleep, the psycho-physical law and other ex- 
perimental topics. 
Prof. R. Avenarius, of the University of Zurich, editor of the Viertel- 
jahrschrift für wissenschaftliche Philosophie, died on August 18, 1896. 
Prof. M. W. Drobisch, of the University of Leipzig, died on Sept- 
ember 30th, at the age of 94 years. 
The following changes in the personel of various universities have 
occurred during the year: 
Mr. G. F. Stout, fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge, and editor 
of Mind, has been appointed to the Anderson lectureship on compara- 
tive psychology, recently founded at Aberdeen. 
Prof. E. B. Delabarre, of Brown University, has been appointed 
director of the psychological laboratory of Harvard University for the 
year 1896-7, during the absence of Prof. Münsterberg. In the same 
university J. E. Lough has been appointed instructor in experimental 
psychology, and C. M. Bakewell instructor in psychology. 
Dr. C. A. Strong, associate professor of psychology in the University 
of Chicago, has been elected lecturer on psychology in Columbia Uni- 
versity; Dr. Franz Boas has been appointed lecturer in physical an- 
thropology, and S. I. Franz and L. B. McWhood have been appointed 
fellows in psychology, in the same institution. 
H. C. Warren has been appointed assistant professor of experimental 
psychology in Princeton University ; J. F. Crawford has been appointed 
demonstrator in experimental psychology. 
At Bryn Mawr College, Prof. Lightner Witmer, of the University 
of Pennsylvania, has been appointed to give a course in experimental 
psychology, and Dr. H. T. Lukens, of Clark University, has been ap- 
pointed professor of education. 
Dr. Mark Wenley, late examiner in philosophy in the University of 
Glasgow, and lecturer at the Queen Margaret College, has been ap- 
pointed professor of philosophy in the University of Michigan; Dr. 
Edgar Pierce has been appointed instructor in psychology. 
Dr. Herbert Nichols, formerly instructor in psychology at Harvard 
University, has been appointed lecturer in psychology at Johns Hop- 
kins University. : 
Dr. Guy Tawney, demonstrator in psychology in Princeton Univer- 
sity has been appointed to the chair of philosophy in Beloit College, 
Wisconsin, made vacant by the death of Prof. Blaisdell. 
Dr. C. H. Judd has been appointed instructor in psychology at Wes- 
leyan University. 
