1140 The American Naturalist. [December, 
Dr. Lucien M. Underwood has been called to the chair of Botany in 
the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Auburn, Alabama. 
Dr. Engler, of Berlin, in conjunction with other distinguished botan- 
ists, has, in preparation, a new edition of Grisebach’s famous treatise, 
Die Vegetation der Erde, which has been out of print some time. Mr. 
Th. Holm, of the Division of Vegetable Physiology and Pathology 
in the U. S. Department of Agriculture, has been asked to contribute 
the portion on North American Gramineæ and Cyperacez. 
Mr. F. S. Earle, of Ocean Springs, Miss., has been appointed Assist- 
ant in the Division of Vegetable Physiology and Pathology in the 
U. S. Department of Agriculture, Vice Joseph F. James, resigned. 
Mr. Earle will have charge of the herbarium. 
Mr. O. F. Cook is contemplating a third trip to the west coast of 
Africa. Mrs. Cook will accompany him. The next volume of the 
Transactions of the New York Academy of Science will contain an im- 
portant systematic paper on Myriapods, from his pen. 
The Entomological Society of Washington will devote the next 
number of its Proceedings to a memorial of Prof. C. V. Riley, who 
was the founder of the Society and always an active member. 
The Australian Museum, at Sydney, still suffers from small 
appropriations by Parliament, and during the year 1894 it was work- 
ing with a reduced staff and with practically no money for increase or 
publication. Dr. Ramsay, owing to ill-heatlh, has resigned his posi- 
tion as Curator after 20 years’ service, but still retains a connection 
with the museum. Mr. Robert Etheridge, Jr., has been appointed as 
his successor. The total income for the year 1895 was about £6,000, and 
120,000 persons visited the museum during the year, 34,000 of these 
coming on Sundays. Among the most interesting additions to the 
museum were a number of relics of Capt. Cook, the list of which would 
seem to indicate that this antipodial museum has about as large a col- 
lection of specimens collected by Capt. Cook and of memorials of him 
as has the museum at Oxford. The museum has also received a con- 
siderable collection of aboriginal pottery from Arkansas. 
Dr. A. I. biien the well-known anatomist and surgeon, of Paris, 
died June 1 
Dr. A. st has been made Ordinary Professor of Anatomy, at 
Tübingen. 
Dr. W. C. Williamson, the botanist and paleobotanist of Owens Col- 
lege, Manchester, England, died June 23, aged 79. 
