_ gaus,” at Mons, aged eighty-four. 
_ portance to the State of Kansas,.”—W. R. Li 
Leavenworth, 
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_—Mrs. A. T. Bruce, of New York City, the mother of 
Dr. Adam T, Bruce, whose untimely end has been chroni 
—Professor A. DeBary, of Strassburg, has received a call 
the chair of botany and directorship of the Botanical I 
of the University of Leipzig, left vacant by the retirement d 
Professor A. Schenk. a 
—Dr. W. Branco, who has been a privatdocent at Berlin, g 
to the University of Königsberg as professor of geology. 
—Dr. Karl Dahl, the zoologist, and Dr. H. Traube, the mine 
ogist, have entered upon the duties of their professorships at 
University of Kiel. i 
—Mr. Carl Eigenmann has gone to the Pacific coast. 
hopes while there to make a study of the Embiotocoid fi 
— Professor P. Falkenberg, formerly of Göttingen, goes © 
University of Rostock to take the chair of botany there. 
—Dr. A. Gravis, who has been at Brussels, has been 
professor of botany at Lüttich. : 
— RECENT DEATHS.—May 20, Professor Alexander Ecker ! 
well-known anatomist and anthropologist of Freiburg, at the 
professor of botany, at Copenhagen, March 19, aged 
ree. 
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