844 The American Naturalist. [September, 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Contrary to the experience of most summer laboratories this season, 
the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Holl is filled to overflow- 
ing. Over 100 students are in attendance, this number being the 
greatest in the history of the institution. Those in charge report a 
very gratifying improvement in the ability of those attending. 
Dr. H. Kelly Corning, formerly at Prag, is now to be addressed at 
the Anatomischer Anstalt in Basel. 
Friedrich Ziegler, Freiburgi. B., has just published a new catalogue 
of his wax models illustrating embryological subjects. These models 
are real works of art, and are most valuable aids in instruction. More 
or less complete exhibits of them may be seen in Harvard, Johns Hop- 
kins, Bryn Mawr, Michigan University, Chicago University, Clarke 
University, Cornell, Wisconsin University, Oberlin, Wellesley, Minne- 
sota University, Boston Society of Natural History, Columbia College, 
Rochester University, University of Illinois, and Northwestern Uni- 
versity. The whole collection, as far as ready for the market, aera: 
279 models, which are furnished for $602.84. 
Dr. H. B. Ward, formerly instructor in Zoology in Michigan Uni- 
versity, has been appointed Associate Professor of Zoology in the Uni- 
versity of Nebraska. After Sept. 15, his address is Lincoln, Nebr. 
With his appointment Professor E. A. Barbour is relieved of the 
instruction in Zoology, and will have only that in Geology. 
Dr. Zander has been appointed extraordinary professor of Anatomy 
in the University of Königsberg. 
Mr. Edward J. Bles, formerly Fellow at Owens College, Manchester, 
is now Director of the Biological Station, at Plymouth, England. 
Dr. Hermann von Ihering is now the Director of the Zoological 
Division of the Museum at Sao Paulo, Brazil. 
Dr. Adelbert Seitz has been appointed Director of the Zoological 
Garden at Frankfurt a. M. 
Henry Viallanes, Director of the Zoological Station at Arcachon, 
France, died the last of May, 1893, aged 36 years. He was one of the 
