1895,] Scientific News. 1141 
Dr. J. Strahl, of Marburg, has been appointed Ordinary Professor 
of Anatomy, in Giessen. 
The American Association for the Advancement of Science appropri- 
ated $250, and the American Society of Microscopists $25.00 towards 
Dr. Field’s Bibliographical Bureau. 
Dr. Karl Müller, of Berlin, goes as Professor of Technical Botany 
to the Technical School of Carlottenburg. 
Dr. N. V. Ussing becomes Professor of Mineralogy in the University 
of Copenhagen, in place of Dr. yon Johnstrup. 
George Murray has been appointed Custodian of Botany in the Brit- 
ish Museum, in place of Dr. Carruthers. 
Dr. L. Plate is Privat-docent in Zoology in the University of Berlin. 
Dr. Max Verworn has been appointed Extraordinary Professor of 
Physiology in Jena. 
Dr. Albert Giinther has retired from his position as Director of the 
Zoological Department of the British Museum, having reached the 
age-limit of the British Civil Service. 
Count Angelo Manzoni, geologist and paleontologist, died in Ravenna, 
Italy, July 14, 1895. 
Dr. W. Roux, of Innsbruck, goes to the University of Halle as Pro- 
fessor of Anatomy. 
Sir John Tomes, well-known for his researches on the teeth, is dead 
at the age of 80 years. 
Dr. E. Ihne has been appointed Professor of Botany in the Technical 
School at Darmstadt. 
Rev. J. G. Morris for many years recognized as an eminent 
student of American Lepidoptera died at his home near Baltimore, 
October 10. Dr. Morris was born in 1803 and has long been considered 
one of the fathers of American entomology. His catalogue of the 
Lepidoptera published in 1860 by the Smithsonian Institution and his 
Synopsis of Diurnal and Crepuscular Lepidoptera are the publications 
by which he was best known to entomologists. 
Dr. Albert E. Eoote, of Philadelphia, died recently in Atlanta, 
Georgia. Dr. Foote was born in Hamilton, N. Y., Feb. 6, 1846. After 
graduating at Cortland Academy, Homer, N. Y., he entered the class 
of 1867 in the University of the State of Michigan, where he took the 
