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the directorship of the Herbarium of Melbourne; Johannes Riichert to 
the professorship of descriptive and topographical anatomy in the 
University of Munich; Pasquale Baccarini to the professorship of 
botany in the University of Catania; Prof. Alexander Fischer von 
Waldheim, of Warsaw, to the position of director of the Botanical 
Gardens in St. Petersburg; Dr. Oswald Kruch to the professorship of 
botany in the Agricultural Institute in Perugia; Isaac H. Burkell, of 
Cambridge (Eng.), to a position as assistant in the Kew Herbarium; 
Emilio Chiovenda to the conservatorship of the Botanical Collections 
of the University of Rome; Dr. Biagio Longo as assistant in the Botan- 
ical Institute of the University of Rome; Dr. Achille Terracciano as 
assistant in the Botanical Institute of Palermo; Dr. Beckenkamp, of 
Mülhausen, to the professorship of mineralogy at Wiirzberg; Dr. 
Gaupp to be professor extraordinarius of anatomy at the University 
of Freiburg. 
Recent Deaths :—Dr. Emile Moreau, ichthyologist, at Paris, Septem- 
ber 11, 1896; Joseph Chappell, entomologist, at Manchester, Eng., 
October 3, aged 67; Dr. Rudolf Raimann, botanist, as Vienna, Decem- 
ber 5, aged 33; Joseph Ullepitsch, botanist, at Wilfersdorf, Austria, 
December 16, at the age of 68 ; Professor Joseph von Gerlach, anatom- 
ist, of Munich, December 17, aged 76; Ferdinand Morowitz, Vice- 
President of the Russian Entomological Society and a student of 
Hymenoptera, December 17, aged 70; Lugui Calori, professor of 
anatomy in the University of Bologna, December 19, aged 90; Dr. 
Theodor Lickfett, director of the Bacteriological Institute in Danzig, 
December 28, aged 49; Heinrich Gaetke, ornithologist, of Helgoland, 
January 1, aged 83; Franz von Baur, Professor of Forestry, at Munich, 
January 2, aged 66; Dr. August Streng, professor of mineralogy, at 
Giessen, January 7, aged 67; Dr. A. A. van Bemmeln, director of the 
Zoological Garden at Rotterdam, January 9; Dr. Karl Heitzman, 
anatomist, at Rome, aged 61; Sven Anders Bernhard Lundgren, pro- 
fessor of geology in the University of Lund, January 7, aged 53; Alois 
Rogenhofer, student of Lepidoptera, at Vienna, January 15, aged 65; 
Salvatore Trinchese, professor of comparative anatomy in the Uni- 
versity of Naples, January 18; Hermann von Nordlinger, formerly 
professor of forestry in the University of Tiibingen, at Stuttgart, Jan- 
uary 19, aged 78; Frederick Isaac Warner, botanist, at Winchester, 
Eng., November 8, aged 54; Antonio Cecchi, African traveller, killed 
by the natives in Somali Land, November 26 ; Dr. Paul Taubert, botan- 
ist, at Manaos, No. Brazil, January 1; C. F.Wiepkin, for nearly 60 years 
director of the Museum at Oldenburg, January 29; Constantin, Baron 
