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” Dr. R. M. Bolton, of Philadelphia, goes to Columbia, Mo., as in- 
structor in: bacteriology in the University of Missouri. 
Dr. H. Trimen, director of the Botanical Gardens at Peradeniya, 
Ceylon, died October 18, 1896, at the age of 53 
Prof. M. Raciborski and Mr. H. Möller, of Lund, are spending the 
winter at the Buitenzorg Botanical Station. 
Dr. J. Szideczky has been appointed professor extraordinarius of 
geology in the University of Klausenburg. 
Dr. Chas. Julin has been appointed professor of comparative anat- 
omy in the University of Liége. 
Dr. F. Noack has been placed in charge of the phytopathological 
laboratory at Campinas, Brazil. 
The African traveler, E. D. Young, died at Hastings, England, 
Nov. 4, 1896, aged 65 years. 
Dr. F. Westhoff, a well-known student of the Diptera, died Nov. 12, 
at Miinster,i. W., aged 36. 
Mr. O. F. Cook has been appointed curator of the Cryptogamic 
Herbarium at Washington. 
A. Dorrsett, ornithologist and entomologist, died at Reading, Eng- 
land, November 6, 1896. 
- Dr. L. Serrurier has resigned the director of the Royal Museum of 
Ethnology at Leiden. 
_A. A. Heller has been appointed instructor in botany in the Uni- 
versity of Minnesota. 
Dr. H. J. Posselt, assistant in the Zoological Museum at Copenhagen, 
died July 10, 1896. 
Dr. A. Pestalozzi has been appointed assistant in the Botanical Mu- 
seum at Ziirich. 
Prof. A. Hénon, entomologist, died at Passy, France, Oct. 6, 1896,. 
aged 74 years. 
F. Benseler, of the Botanical Garden at Vienna, died Oct. 7, 1896, 
aged 67 years. 
Dr. A. Dürmberger, botanist, died at Linz, Austria, Oct. 26, 1896, 
aged 59. 
- Prof. E. Wenzel, anatomist, of Leipzig, died Oct. 25, 1896, aged 56 
years. 
~H. D. Van Nostrand, conchologist, of New York, died Oct. 9, 1896. 
M. Chaper, conchologist, of Paris, died J uly 5, 1896. 
