492 The American Naturalist. [May 
at some American University, preferably a person who has taken the 
degree of Ph.D. or S.D.; he must have published some creditable 
original investigation, and should be recommended as an able investi- — 
gator by the professor under whom he has studied. : 
Applicants will please forward to the undersigned, before May 10 — 
their recommendations and a statement of their qualifications and of — 
the subject to which they hope to devote themselves. 
In order that the Faculty may make the most satisfactory disposi- | 
tion of the table during the whole year, the applicants are requested — 
` to state the length of time they desire to remain at Naples, and also — 
the earliest and latest dates within which they can avail themselves of — 
the appointment. : 
The Faculty will, at its meeting in May, nominate to the Corporation 
of Harvard College for approval the incumbent or incumbents for the 
year 1893-1894. | 
ALEXANDER AGASSIZ, 
Director, — 
The North American Review. Table of Contents for a 
April, 1893.—Charges at the World’s Fair—by Director-General — 
Davis. Brain Surgery—Dr. William A. Hammond. Shipbuilding — 
Here and Abroad—Naval Constructor Hichborn, U.S.N. Good and — 
Bad Mothers—Mrs. Amelia E. Barr. How Shall the Pension List be — 
Revised ?—by Representative Wilson, of Missouri, Chairman of the — 
Committee on Pensions ; Gen. S. S. Burdett, Past Commander-in-Chief — 
of the Grand Army of the Republic, and Col W. C. Church, editor of 
the “Army and Navy Journal.” Art of Mystery in Fiction—George — 
Manville Fenn. The Interior of the Earth—George F. Becker, of the 
—1. The Currency and the Democratic Party—by the Hon. R. P. 
Bland, Chairman of the Committee on Coinage, etc. ; 2. The Brussels 
Conference Reviewed—by the Hon. Charles Foster, Ex-Secretary of 
the Treasury. Notes and Comments.—*“ By Women for Women ”— 
Lillian A. Mercur. Do the Fittest Survive?—W. A. Croffut. The 
Abuse of Secrecy—Clara Dixon Davidson. English Poor Law Reform 
—Edward Porritt. 
