830 The American Naturalist. [September, 
Professors Wilhelm His and A. Ramsay have received the honorary 
degree of Science from the University of Dublin. 
Mr. A. W. Bennett succeeds Prof. T. Jeffrey Bell as editor of the 
Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society. 
Professor Sollas of Dublin, goes to Cambridge as successor to the late 
Professor Green in the chair of Geology. 
A zoological club has been organized at Springfield, Mass. with a 
membership of nineteen. 
Prof. T. W. Engelmann ot Utrecht, goes to Berlin as Professor of 
Physiology. 
Professor Leuckart has been made a Knight of the Prussian Order 
of Merit. 
