926 The American Naturalist. [October, 
Professor A. P. Karpinski has resigned from the chair of geology in 
the Mining Institute at St. Petersburg and Dr. Ivan V. Muschketoff 
has been elected his successor. 
The Woodwardian Museum of Cambridge, England, has received the 
geological library of Prof. Thomas Wiltshire. It contains about 600 
volumes and 900 pamphlets. 
Prof. Raphael Blanchard, of Paris, will begin the publication of a 
new journal the Archives de Parasitologie, the first number of which 
will appear in January. 
The meeting of the German Zoological Society next spring will be 
held at Heidelberg. There wasa total attendance of 50 at the pai 
at Kiel this year. 
The Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft met this year at Brunswick, 
September 21 as a section of the Versammlung Deutscher Naturfors- 
cher und Arzte. 
The Hopkins Marine Biological Laboratory at Monterey, California, 
is the subject of an article by Dr. Bashford Dean in Natural Science 
for July. 
Dr. Zwaardemaker of Utrecht, has received the Tilanus gold medal 
from the University of Amsterdam for his work on the physiology of 
smell. 
In the Imperial College of Science at Tokyo, there are 89 students. 
Of these 12 are taking Botany and Zoology and 14 are taking Geology. 
Professor Virchow has been elected a foreign associate of the Paris 
Academy of Scienes in the place of the late Dr. Tchebitchef. 
The German Anatomical Society will meet next year in April at 
Kiel. At its meeting in Ghent this year fifty were present. 
Professor Wilhelm His has received the degree of Doctor of Philoso- 
phy, honorio causa, from the University of Leipzig. 
The Prussian government will assist the fresh-water biological station 
at Plön after October, 1898. 
The Zoological Gardens of Amsterdam, are described in Macmillan’s 
Magazine for July. 
Prof. R. Leuckart has been made a knight of the Prussian Order of 
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