478 The American Naturalist. [May, 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Prof. Edward D. Cope died in Philadelphia, April 12, 1897, aged 
56 years. 
Among the recent calls and advancements in position we note the 
following: Karl Futterer to the professorship of mineralogy and 
geology in the Technical School at Karlsruhe ; Peter August Pauly to the 
head of the zoological institute of the experiment station recently estab- 
lished in connection with the University of Munich ; Dr. Erich Wernicke 
to be professor extraordinarius of hygiene in the University of Marburg ; 
Dr. Alexander P. Anderson to the professorship of botany in Clemson 
College ; Dr. Fritz Noll to be titular professor of physiology in the Uni- 
versity of Heidelberg ; Dr. Carl Burckhardt, of Basel, to the position of 
geologist in the Museum of La Plata; Dr. Leo Webrli, of Zürich, to be 
mineralogist in the same institution; Dr. Lugni Buscalioni, of Turin, 
to the assistantship in the Botanical Institute of the University of Rome ; 
Dr. Pietro Cannarella to be assistant in the Botanical Garden at 
Catania; Anton Pestalozzi, assistant in the Botanical Museum of the 
University of Ziirich; Dr. Johannus Petruschky to the directorship of 
the Hygienic-Bacterological Institute in Danzig; Dr. Hermann Ross, 
of Palermo, to the position of custodian of the Botanical Gardens of 
Munich ; Wladimir Iwan Palladin, of Charkoff, to the professorship 
of Botany in Warsaw; Dr. Siedentopf, of Göttingen, to the position of 
assistant in mineralogy in the University of Griefswald; Dr. Karl 
Eckstein to be titular professor of zoology in the Academy of Forestry 
at Eberswalde ; Dr. Ludwig Plate to be titular professor of zoology 
in the University of Berlin; Dr. William E. Castle to the instructor- 
ship of biology in Knox College; Dr. Romeo Fusari to the professor- 
ship of human anatomy in the University of Modena; Dragutin 
Gorjanovish-Kramberger to the professorship of geology and paleon- 
tology in the University of Agram ; Anton Heinz to the professorship 
of botany in Agram; Dr. Mijat Kishpatish to the professorship of 
mineralogy and petrography in Agram ; Dr. Hans Lenk, of Erlangen, 
to the professorship of geology and mineralogy in the University of 
Würzburg; Dr. Giulio Valente, of Perugia, to the professorship of 
human anatomy in the University of Catania; A. Engler to the pro- 
fessorship of forestry in Ziirich; Dr. Walter Felix to be professor 
extraordinarius of osteology in Ziirich; Dr. Siegfried Mollier, of 
Miinich, to be professor extraordinarius of anatomy in Göttingen ; 
Dr. Umberto Rossi, of Florence, to be professor extraordinarius of 
human anatomy in Perugia; Dr. Joseph Kriechbaumer to be con- 
servator of the Zoological Collections in Munich; J. J. Luehmann to 
