482 The American Naturalist. [May, 
Dr. J. A. Oudemanns has resigned his position as director of the 
Botanical Gardens at Amsterdam, and Dr. Hugo de Vries has been ap- 
pointed as his successor. 
The government of the Transvaal, South A frica, is about to establish 
a University at Pretoria. Instruction will be given in the Dutch 
language. 
The Royal Academy of Sciences, in Berlin, has elected Professor E. 
H. Ehlers, of Göttingen, to associate membership in the class of zoology. 
Prof. B. C. Brühl, for nearly forty years professor of anatomy in the 
University of Vienna, has resigned and removed to Gratz. 
S. Flower, the son of Sir W. H. Flower of the British Museum, has 
gone to Bangkok as director of the Royal Museum of Siam. 
Dr. O. Penziz, professor of botany in the University of Genoa, has 
gone on a long trip for botanical study in the East Indies. 
Miss A. M. Claypole has been appointed instructor in zoology, and 
Miss J. Evans instructor in botany in Wellesley College. 
Dr. G. Dewalque, professor of physical geography and geology in 
the University of Liege, has resigned on account of age. 
The Academy of Sciences of Paris has elected the mineralogist Gustav 
Tschermak. of Vienna, to corresponding membership. 
Dr. H. G. Hallier has resigned his position in the Botanical Station 
at Buitenzorg, Java, and has returned to Germany. 
Prof. M. Schiff, who occupied the chair of physiology in the Univer- 
sity of Geneva, died Oct. 6, 1896, at the age of 73 
The director of the Bacteriological Institute of the University of 
Vienna, Dr. R. Kerry, died Oct. 19, 1896. 
W. Whitaker, for forty years district surveyor of the Geological Sur- 
vey of England, has resigned his position. 
Dr. Rudolf Schäfer has resigned his position as custodian of the 
paleontological Collections in Munich. 
Professor Alfred Hughes, of the chair of anatomy in the University 
College, Cardiff, Wales, has resigned. 
Professor W. Kühne, of Heidelberg, has refused a call to Berlin, as 
a successor to Du Bois Reymond. 
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