No.415.] GIFTS, APPOINTMENTS, RETIREMENTS. 613 
B. N. Peach, district geologist of the British Geological Survey. — Dr. A 
Penther, assistant in the zoólogical division of the Vienna Hofmuseum. — 
O. Porsch, assistant in the botanical institute at Graz. — Dr. H. Potonié, 
docent for paleobotany in the university at Berlin, and geologist in the 
Berlin Geological Anstalt. — Charles S. Prosser, professor of geology and 
head of the department in the Ohio State. University. — Dr. Federico 
Raffaele, professor of zoólogy in the university at Messina. — Dr. Walter 
M. Rankin, professor of invertebrate morphology in Princeton University. 
— Clement Reid, district geologist of the British Geological Survey. — 
Dr. F. Reinitzer, professor of botany in the Graz Technical School. — 
Herbert F. Roberts, professor of botany in the Kansas Agricultural 
College. — Dr. Felix Rosen, professor of botany in the university at Breslau. 
— August Rosiwal, geologist of the Austrian Geological Survey. — Dr. M. 
Rudolphi, docent for physiology in the Darmstadt Technical School. — 
H. W. Shimer, assistant in paleontology in Columbia University. — Dr. 
J. Siemiradzki, professor extraordinary of geology and paleontology in the 
university at Lemburg. — Johann F. Snelleman, director of the Leiden Mu- 
seum of Ethnology. — J. Edward Spurr, of the U. S. Geological Survey, 
geologist to the Sultan of Turkey. — Dr. J. Stafford, lecturer on zoólogy at 
McGill University. — Aubrey Strahan, district geologist of the British Geo- 
logical Survey. — C. Fox Strangeways, district geologist of the British Geo- 
logical Survey. — J. J. H. Teall, director of the Geological Survey of Great 
Britan and Ireland.— Arthur Thompson, professor of anatomy in the 
Royal Academy, London. — Dr. A. Voeltzkow, the zoólogist of Berlin, pro- 
ssor.— Dr. Weber, docent for mineralogy in the Munich Technical 
School. — H. B. Woodward, assistant director (for England and Wales) of 
the British Geological Survey. — Jay Backus Woodworth, assistant pro- 
fessor of geology in Harvard University. — Dr. A. Zahlbruckner, Custos of 
the botanical section of the Hofmuseum, Vienna. 
RETIREMENTS. 
Professor R. Blanchard has retired from the position of general secretary 
of the Zoólogical Society of France after a service of twenty-three years. — 
Professor Spiridion Brusina has resigned from the control of the Zoólogical 
Museum at Agram, which he founded thirty-three years ago. — Dr. M. 
Reess has retired from the professorship of botany in Erlangen. 
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DEATHS. 
Dr. J. G. Agardh, the Swedish algologist, at Lund, Sweden, January 17, 
aged 88.— Andrea Balestra, conchologist, in Bassano, February 10, aged 
48. — James Bennie, formerly of the Geological Survey of Scotland, Janu- 
ary 28.— Dr. Guilio Bizzozero, the well-known pathologist of Turin, . 
April 5, aged 55. — Dr. Frederick J. Brockway, assistant demonstrator of 
