hang over the 
: -table ; the hot water is thus drained off and 
_ placed with cold, so that the paraffine cools quickly without the 
east disturbance of the object 
4 SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Be die “Circolo degle Aspiranti Naturalisti” of Naples will 
hereafter be known as the “Societa dei Naturalisti.” With this 
ange In name they begin the publication of a bulletin. 
rs ~=Dr. Pierre, after many years of labor, has completed his 
Work on the Flora of Cochin China. In recognition of this 
fact the Sovernment of the province has granted him a life pen- 
Sion of six thousand francs, 
bee W. Zot Has been aà ointed ordina rofessor of 
_ botany in the University of Halle, Be 
—Dr. G Berthold accepts the position of ordinary professor 
botany at Gottingen, 
i oa Kad Brandt, of Königsberg, becomes interim director of 
o OSical Institute of the University of Kiel. 
iE Korschelt, of Freiburg, has been appointed assistant. 
ological Institute of the University of Berlin. 
Ea logus Goleopterorum.” Dr: Max Gemminger, 
his associate in that Darius undertaking, has since died. For 
years he had held the position of conservator of the 
Pies 4seum at Munich. a 
Edward T. Hardman, a member of the Geological Survey 
nsw died in Dublin, April 30; In 1883-86 he travelled 
wledge in West Australia, and added not a little to our 
2 of the geological features of that region.  — 
