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eulogistic resolutions were offered by Hon. O. B. Wilcox, President of 
the society of the Sons of the American Revolution, which were 
adopted. 
Dr. S. L. Schenk has been advanced to the position of ordinary pro- 
fessor of embryology in the University of Vienna. Dr. J. Blaas has 
had a similar advancement to the chair of geology and paleontology in 
the University of Innsbruck, and S. Bianchi to the chair of anatomy 
in the University of Siena. 
Dr. K. Mobius has been appointed director of the Museum in Ber- 
lin, in the place of Dr. H. E. Beyrich, deceased. Prof. W. Dames has 
been placed in charge of the geological and paleontological collections. 
Dr. Th. D. Pleske has resigned as director of the zoological collec- 
tions of the Academy of Science of St. Petersburg. Dr. E. Büchner 
has charge of the collections for the present. 
Dr. K. Müller, of Halle, founder and, until recently, editor of the 
German periodical “ Natur,” has received the title of Professor from 
the German Government. 
Dr. Carl Claus has resigned the professorship of zoology in the Uni- 
versity of Vienna, and Dr. B. Hatschek, of Prague, has been called to 
the position. 
Dr. A. Spuler, known for his studies of the wings of Lepidoptera, 
has qualified as silos in anatomy in the University of Er- 
langen. 
Mr. B. Waite, PES of the Department of Agriculture at Wash- 
ington, has been appointed professor of botany in Georgetown Univer- 
sity. 
Dr. D. Robertson, who devoted himself in past years to the Fauna of 
Scotland, died Nov. 20, 1896, at Millport, Scotland, at the age of 90. 
Dr. G. Boceardi has been advanced to the position of professor ex- 
traordinarius of microscopical anatomy in the University of Naples. 
Dr. S. Goto, who studied at Johns Hopkins and Harvard, has been 
appointed professor of biology in the First High School of Tokyo. 
Dr. E. Baumann, professor of physiological chemistry in the Uni- 
versity of Freiburg, i. B., died November 3, 1896, aged 49 years. 
Dr. F. Czapek, of Vienna, has been called to the position of profes- 
sor extraordinarius in the Technical High School in Prague. 
Dr. L. E. Shore has been appointed tutor, and Dr. A. Eicholtz dem- 
onstrator, of physiology i in the University of Cambridge. 
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