1066 The American Naturalist. | December, 
Samuel James Augustus Salter, botanist, at Basingstoke, England, 
February 28th, aged 72.—Prof. Paul Schutzenberger, physiological 
chemist of Paris, aged 67.—P. B. L. Verlot, botanist, at Verriéres-les- 
Brusson, France.—R. Allan Wright, economic entomologist, near Auk- 
land, N. Z., December 22, 1896, aged 73. 
Among the recent appointments we notice the following: Dr. 
Charles R. Bardeen, assistant in anatomy at Johns Hopkins Univer- 
sity ; Prof. Belajeff, director of the botanical gardens at Warsaw; Dr. 
Pio Bolson, assistant in the botanical institute at Padua; Dr. Edward 
Fischer succeeds his father (Prof. L. Fischer) as professor of botany 
in the University of Bern; Dr. Elisha Gregory, Jr., has been appointed 
instructor in histology and embryology in Harvard Medical School ; 
Dr. Herbert L. Jones, associate professor of botany in Oberlin College ; 
Dr. Julius Paoletti, of Padua, professor of natural history in the Melfi 
Technical Institute ; Dr. M. Raceborski, of Cracow, goes to Java as 
professor of botany in the experiment station for sugar production at 
Kagok Tegal; Dr. Hans Reusch, director of the Geological Survey of 
Norway, Sturgiss-Hooper professor of geology in Harvard University ; 
Dr. Rodet, professor of bacteriology in the University of Lyons; Dr. 
W. Ernest Thomson goes to Anderson College, Glasgow, as successor 
to Dr. Campbell Black in the chair of physiology ; W. W. Watts, 
assistant professor of geology in Mason College, Birmingham, England ; 
Henry C. Williamson, naturalist to the Fishery Board for Scotland ; 
Dr. Zehntner, professor of entomology at the station at Kagok Tegal, 
Java; Dr. Zelinka, of Graz, professor of zoology in the University of 
Czernowitz, Austria. 
Mr. Gary N. Calkins presents in Science an account of the 
Columbia Expedition to the Pacific Coast. The party consisted 
of seven. The work began at Port Townsend on Puget Sound, but 
when the party arrived there it was too early to obtain much in the 
way of embryological material, so all proceeded to Alaska where, al- 
though the facilities for collecting were poor, large collections were 
made both for anatomical and for embryological studies. In its return 
to Puget Sound the expedition had difficulty in getting return pas- 
sage on account of the numbers of excursionists crowding the regular 
boats. They took passage finally in a returning boat the “ Mexico,” 
which had brought up a Klondyke party. On the return voyage the 
Mexico ran into a rock in a fog and sank in about two hours in about 
500 feet of water, carrying down with her all the collections, instru- 
ments, notes, etc., of the expedition. There was no loss of life and all 
were landed soon after at Port Townsend. 
