1887] Scientific News: 685 
transposed from their present location in the university building 
to their future home. On the rst of May of this year Karl 
Mobius, formerly ordinary professor of zoology in Kiel, entered 
upon the duties of director of the Berlin Museum, being thus 
associated with Professor Dr. Edouard von Martens. 
—Johns Hopkins University is to publish, as a memorial 
volume, the researches of the late Dr. Adam T. Bruce on the 
Embryology of Insects. 
teria and septicaemia should have been known for hundreds of 
ears 
— Science has canonized one of the living African explorers, 
On a map of the African continent given in the issue of May 27 
appears “ St. Stanley's Falls.” 
—Professor Prestwich, who for thirteen years has held the 
chair of geology at Oxford, England, has resigned. 
_ —Dr. Eugene Korschelt, formerly privatdocent and assistant 
in the Zoological Museum at Freiburg, Bavaria, has taken a 
similar place at Berlin, while his former position is now occupied 
by Dr. E. Ziegler. 
— The professorship of zoology in the Zoological Institute at 
Kiel will not be filled until Easter, 1888. Dr. Karl Brandt, 
et aera in Königsberg, has been appointed the interim 
rector, 
__—Bronn’s valuable “ Klassen und Ordnungen des Thierreichs” 
drags its slow length along. The last parts published are Nos. 
56 of the Reptiles, by C. K. Hoffmann; 16 and 17 of the Birds, 
by Hans Gadow; and 29 of the Mammals, by W. Leche. 
_—Dr. J. S. Kingsley, the junior editor of this magazine,. has 
accepted the professorship of biology in Indiana University. 
_ After September 1 his address will be Bloomington, Indiana, 
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