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later at Harvard Medical College. While a student at college he 
received instruction in zoological studies from Nuttall, the ornitholo- 
gist and botanist. Later he turned to anatomical work and then. to 
the study of marine zoology. Under his instruction the late William 
Stimpson did his first dredging in Massachusetts Bay. For many 
years Dr. Wheatland has been President of the Essex Institute at 
Salem, Mass., and he has been trustee of both the Peabody Academy 
of Science at Salem, and the Peabody Museum of Archeology and 
Ethnology at Cambridge since their foundation. In later years his 
energies have been devoted to the study of local history. Personally, 
Dr. Wheatland was a delightful companion, and his stories of the 
older days of American Science were especially interesting. 
Mr. A. Smith Woodward, of the British Museum, has gone to the 
Lebanon to explore the deposit of fossil fishes. 
Professor R. Ellsworth Call is now instructor in Physics and Chem- 
istry in the Manual Training High School, Louisville, Ky. 
The Tacoma Academy of Sciences is endeavoring to have the name 
Mt. Tacoma adopted as the official title of what was formerly known 
as Mt. Ranier. If the Academy could have the name of the State of 
Washington changed to Tacoma it would be a great convenience. We 
have too many Washingtons already. x 
The Leuckart “ Festschrift,” the volume of the contributions of the 
former students of the celebrated Leipzig zoologist, brought together 
at his seventieth birthday, makes a splendid quarto volume illustrated 
by forty plates. Thirty-five pupils contributed to the memorial. 
Richard Greeff, Professor of Zoology in Marburg, died August 30, 
in his sixty-fifth year. 
J. G. Joessel, Professor of Anatomy in the University of Strasburg, 
died Dec. 4, 1892, in his 55th year. 
Professor W. Pfitzner, of Strassburg, has been appointed to the 
position left vacant by the death of Professor Joessel. His assistants 
will be Drs. Mechnert and Heinrich Hoyer (of Würzburg). 
Professor F. C. Noll, for many years editor of the “ Zoologiscenh 
Garten,” died in Frankfurt a. M. Jan. 14, 1892. 
Dr. Jan Pieter van Wickevoort Crommelin, an ornithologist, died 
in Haarlem, Holland, Oct. 20, 1892. 
