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of the trustees is Dr. C. S. Minot, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 
Mass. 
Dr. Carl Grobben has been raised to the ordinary professorship of 
Zoology in the University of Vienna. 
Dr. George Bennett, an Australian explorer and Naturalist, died at 
Sydney in October, 1893, aged 90 years. . 
Mr. August Carl Eduard Baldamus, the ornithologist, died in Wolf- 
enbiittel, Oct. 31, 1893, aged 82. 
Juan Vilanova y Piera, Professor of Geology in Madrid, died in the 
beginning of November. 
C. von Gumpenberg, a student of the Lepidoptera, died in Bamburg, 
Germany, Nov. 5, 1893. 
A. Halfar, Geologist of the Prussian Geological Survey, died in 
Berlin, Nov. 21, 1893. 
Prof. "Joseph Boehm, the well-known plant-physiologist, died in 
Vienna, December 2, 1893. 
Dr. Tomquist has been made private docent in Geology and Palæ- 
ontology in the University of Vienna. 
Professor Arcangeli Scacchi, the student of Vesuvius, died in Napha, 
Oct. 11, 1893. 
Dr. J. M. Undset, the investigator of prehistoric Scandinavia, died 
in Christiania, Dec. 3, 1893, aged 40 years. 
George Primies, geologist, died in Belénges, Hungary, Nov., 1893. 
H. J. Rink, whose work on Greenland is the handbook upon all 
Arctic questions, died in Christiania, Dec. 15, 1893. 
Dr. Luigi Luciani has been called to the chair of Physiology at the 
University of Rome as successor to Moleschott. 
Prof. W. Krause of Göttingen has been given charge of the collec- 
tions of the I. Anatomical Institute at Berlin. 
Prof. R. Altmann of Leipzig, has been called to the chair of Anatomy 
in Halle. 
Dr. A. Heider, the Bacterologist, died in Vienna, Dec. 26, 1893. 
: Professor August Wrzesniowski, well-known for his Protozoan 
studies, died in Warsaw, December last. 
