368 The American Naturalist. 
Hospitals, and for twenty years dean of the medical faculty in Ki 
College, London. For ten years he was one of the editors of the 
Pharmaceutical Journal. He wrote a “Manual of Botany,” which 
has reached the fifth edition. He was the author of a series of man- 
uals of elementary science, also “Student’s Guide to Structural, — 
Morphological and Physiological Botany.” And was the joint author 
with Dr. Trimen, of a four-volume illustrated work on ee 
Plants.” 
Mr. E. B. Poulton, who has recently been lecturing in various cities 
of the United States, has been elected Hope Professor of Entomology A 
in the University of Oxford, as successor to the late John Obadiah — 
Westwood. S 
The summer school of Cornell University announces courses in 
Physical ve alan Geology and Economic Geology, by Professor — 
R. S. Tar x 
The following appointments have been made at Cornell University. a 
here. Mr. G. D. Harris, Assist. Professor of Paleontology and Dr — 
A. C. Gill, Assist. Professor of Mineralogy and Petrography. 
