920 The American Naturalist. [ October, 
Smith, assistant in botany in Mt. Holyoke College; Prof. Ph. Stöhr, 
of Zürich, professor of anatomy in the University of Würzburg, Prof. 
von Kölliker restricting himself to histology and embryology; Prof. 
Hugo de Vries of Amsterdam, professor of botany in the University of 
Wiirzburg, as successor to the late Prof. Sachs; Dr. H. Fling, profess- 
or of biology and chemistry in the Oskosh Normal School; Dr. Bruno 
Hofer, director of the institute for the study of diseases of fishes at 
Munich; Henry Kraemer, professor of botany and microscopy in the 
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy; Dr. Albert Schneider, professor 
of botany in Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.; Dr. Jumelle, 
assistant professor of botany in the faculty of sciences at Grenoble, 
France; Johannes Martin, Director of the Natural History Museum in 
Oldenburg; Dr. Philippi, assistant in the Museum of Natural History 
in Berlin; T. I. Pocock, assistant geologist on the British Geological 
Survey; Dr. W. F. Hume and L. Gorringe, assistants on the geological 
Survey of Egypt; Dr. H. V. Neal, professor of biology in Knox College, 
Galesburg, Ill.; Prof. George Ruge, to the chair of anatomy at Zürich, 
as successor to Prof. Stéhr; Dr. Ossau of Hiedelberg to the chair of 
mineralogy in Mülhausen ; Dr. J. Biittikofer of Leiden, director of the 
zoological gardens at Rotterdam; Dr. Antoneo Crocicha, professor of 
biology in the Catholic University at Washington ; Adolf Beck, pro- 
fessor of physiology at Lemburg; Dr. Ludwig Heim, professor ext. of 
bacteriology at Erlangen; Dr. H. Baum, professor of osteology at the 
Dresden Technical School; Dr. George Voikens, assistant in the Botan- 
ical Museum at Berlin; Dr. A. O. Kihlman, professor extraordinary of 
botany at Helsingfors; W. S. Boulton, of Mason College, lecturer in 
geology at University College, Cardiff, Wales. 
James Ellis Humphrey, the son of James and Susan (Cushing) 
Humphrey, was born in Weymouth, Mass., August 5, 1861. He re- 
ceived his early education in the Weymouth schools, and at the early 
age of sixteen was appointed master of one of the grammar schools in 
his native town. Then after a short experience in the Prang Educa- 
tional Company, he entered the Lawrence Scientific School of Har- 
vard University, from which he received the degree of S. B. in 1886. 
During his college studies he paid especial attention to botany, and 
immediately upon graduation he received an appointment as assistant 
in the botanical laboratories under Professor G. L. Goodale. In 1887 
he was appointed instructor in botany in the University of Indiana, 
and the next year he accepted the position of botanist in the State 
Agricultural Experiment Station at Amherst, Mass., where he re- 
mained until 1892. While at Amherst he continued his studies under 
