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employ an entomologist to study the question. Mr. Bruner will remain 
a year at their expense. His labors as an economic entomologist have 
especially fitted him for this work. His place at Nebraska will be filled 
by his assistant, Mr. Hunter, during his absence. 
The National Academy of Science has appointed Dr. Theodore N. 
Gill to prepare the biography of the late Professor Cope. Professor 
Cope was to have delivered the address as retiring president before the 
American Association for the Advancement of Science at its Detroit 
meeting. Dr. Gill as first vice-president will be the acting president 
and will deliver a memorial address upon the scientific work of Pro- 
fessor Cope. 
The following persons have recently qualified themselves for the posi- 
tion of privat-docent : Dr. Alfred Bergeat for geology in the University 
of Munich; Dr. René Du Bois Reymond for physiology in the Uni- 
versity of Berlin; Dr. A. Landauer for physiology in the University 
of Budapesth ; Dr. Franz Nissl for anatomy in the University of Hei- 
delberg ; Dr. Heinrich Sachs for anatomy in the University of Breslau. 
Professor Johannes von Kries, of F reiburg, who was called to the 
chair of physiology in the University of Berlin, as successor to the late 
Professor Du Bois Reymond, has decided to remain in Freiburg. 
Dr. Henri Filhol, professor of anatomy in the Museum of Natural 
History of Paris, has been elected to membership in the Academy of 
Sciences of Paris, as successor to the late Professor Sappey. 
Dr. F. Saccardo, professor in the enological school at Avellino, and 
known for his studies of lichens, died Oct. 6, 1896, aged 27 years. He 
was a nephew of Dr. P. A. Saccardo, the mycologist. 
Dr. W. A. Rothert has been advanced to the position of professor ex- 
traordinarius of botany in the University of Kazan, and Dr. O. Seeliger 
to the chair of zoology in the University of Berlin. 
Dr. Beer has qualified as privat-docent in comparative physiology in 
the University of Vienna, and Dr. R. Krause as privat-docent in an- 
atomy in the University of Berlin. 
Among other recent deaths we notice those of S. Scholz-Rogozinski, 
African traveler; P. Briard, mycologist; A. S. Smith, ornithologist, 
and Dr. G. W. Child, botanist. 
Professor Karl Alfred von Zittel, professor in paleontology in 
Munich, has been elected corresponding member of the Academy of 
Sciences in St. Petersburg. 
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