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All matters relating to the scientific administration of the Marine 
Biological Laboratory should be addressed to Prof. C. O. Whitman, 
University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.; all applications for membership 
to the Secretary, Prof. H. C. Bumpus, Brown University, Providence, 
R. L.; all dues and subscriptions to the Treasurer, D. Blakeley Hoar, 
220 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass. 
Recent Appointments: Dr. Frech, professor of geology in the Uni- 
versity of Breslau; Dr. Paul Samassa, professor extraordinary of 
zoology at Heidelberg; Dr. E. B. Copeland, assistant professor of 
botany in the University of Indiana, Bloomington, Ind.; Dr. G. Boc- 
cardi; associate professor of histology at the University of Naples ; 
Ernest B. Forbes of the University of Illinois, assistant state entomo- 
logist of Minnesota; Dr. James E. Hamphrey, associate professor of 
botany in Johns Hopkins University; Dr. George B. Shattuck, assis- 
tant in geology in Johns Hopkins University; Dr. Charles E. Beecher, 
advanced to University, professor of historical geology and Dr. L. V 
Pirsson, professor of physical geology in Yale University; Miss Bertha 
Stoneman, professor of botany in the Huguenot College for Women in 
Cape Colony; J. L. Prevost, professor of physiology in the University 
of Geneva; Dr. J. J. Zumstein, professor of anatomy in the Uni- 
versity of Marburg; Dr. H. Baum, professor of osteology in the 
Technical High School at Dresden; Dr. W. Ule, professor of geogra- 
phy in the University of Halle; Dr. A. O. Kihlmann, assistant pro- 
fessor of botany at Helsingfors ; Dr. Alex. Bittner, chief geologist ; G: 
Geyer, geologist, G. von Bukowski and August Rosiwál, adjunct, Drs. 
J. Dreger, F. von Kerner, J. J. Jahn and F. Fichluter, assistants of 
the imperial Austrian Geological Anstalt at Vienna; Dr. Karl Toldt, 
professor of anatomy, has been elected Rector of the University of 
Vienna for the coming year; W. Garstang, naturalist of the Plymouth 
(England) Laboratory; Dr. E. Kaufmann, professor of anatomy at 
Breslau; Dr. Max Walters, professor of anatomy at Bonn; W. H. 
Lang, lecturer in botany in Queen Margaret College, Glasgow; Dr. 
Walter Kruse, professor of hygiene at Bonn ; Dr. Raphael Slidell, pro- 
fessor extraordinarius of zoology at Heidelberg ; Prof. Johannes Ruch- 
ert, professor of anatomy in the University of Munich ; Miss D. Clark, 
demonstrator in botany, Queen Margaret College, Glasgow ; Freiher 
von Erlanger, professor extraordinarius of zoology at the University of 
Heidelberg; Dr. George J. Pierce, professor of plant physiology in 
Leland Stanford University; Miss M. Maclean, demonstrator in 
anatomy, Queen Margaret College, Glasgow ; Prof. C. L. Herrick, lately 
professor of biology in Denison University, has been elected President 
of the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque; Miss Arma Anna 
