GIFTS, APPOINTMENTS, RETIREMENTS. 333 
Oberlin College, a conditional gift of $200,000, from John D. Rockefeller. 
Rutgers College, $25,000, by the will of J. A. Vanderpool. 
Syracuse Public Library, $200,000, from Andrew Carnegie. 
Syracuse University, a conditional gift of $400,000, from John D. Archbold. 
The University of Buffalo, $50,000, for the erection of the Gratwick 
Research Laboratory. 
University of Pennsylvania, funds yielding $400, for a prize in the school of 
biology, from an anonymous friend. 
University of Wisconsin, $1000, from Charles F. Pfister; $1000, from 
Fred Vogel. 
Upper Iowa University, $225,000, from Andrew Carnegie. 
Washington and Jefferson College, $60,000, from W. J. Thompson, for 
library building and equipment. 
Wellesley College, $25,000, from H. H. Hunnewell, for the botanical 
department. 
Wesleyan University, $2000, from G. W. Quereau, for the library ; $1000, 
from C. H. Buck. 
Yale University, $50,000, by the will of Albert E. Kent of Chicago; 
$80,000, by the death of B. D. Silliman ; a conditional gift of $500,000, 
by the will of T. B. Winthrop ; $68,152, from the estate of the late 
John De Koven ; a part of the estate of the late Professor E. E. Salis- 
bury, estimated at $150,000; $30,000, from Alfred Vanderbilt ; 
$50,000, by the will of Henry Villard. i 
APPOINTMENTS. 
Mr. Outram Bangs, assistant in mammalogy in the Museum of Compar- 
ative Zoölogy at Cambridge, Mass. — Professor Franz Boas, curator of 
ethnology in the American Museum of Natural History. — Dr. H. Borut- 
tan, professor of physiology in the University at Göttingen. — Professor H. C. 
Bumpus, curator of invertebrate zoölogy and assistant to the president in the 
American Museum of Natural History, New York city. — Dr. A. Burian, 
docent for physiology in the University at Leipzig. — Mr. E. J. Butler, 
official botanist to the Indian government. — F. M. Chapman, assistant 
Curator of mammals and birds in the American Museum of Natural History. 
ee. F Czapek, docent for anatomy and physiology of plants in the 
German University at Prag. — Dr. Paul Eisler, professor extraordinary of 
anatomy in the University at Leipzig.— Dr. M. Fürbringer of Jena, pro- 
fessor of anatomy in the University at Heidelberg, as successor to Gegen- 
baur. — Myron L. Fuller, assistant geologist on the United States Geologi- 
cal Survey, — Joaquin Gonzalez Hidalgo, director of the Natural History 
Museum at Madrid.— Dr. Grabowski of Braunschweig, director of the 
zoólogical gardens at Breslau. — Dr. L. P. Gratacap, curator of mineralogy 
in the American Museum of Natural History. — Dr. Valentin Hacker of 
Freiburg i. B., professor of zoólogy in the Stuttgart Technical School. — 
