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of Agriculture. — H. H. Thomas, geologist on the English staff of the 
Geological Survey of the United Kingdom. — John J. Thornber, professor 
of botany in the University of Arizona. — William C. Thro, assistant in 
histology and embryology in Cornell University. — William George Tight, 
president of, and professor of geology in, the University of New Mexico 
at Albuquerque. — Dr. O. Uhlworm, editor of the Botanisches Centralblatt, 
librarian of the Royal Library in Berlin and chief of the German Bureau 
for International Bibliography. — C. E. Van Orstrand, physical geologist 
of the United States Geological Survey. — Dr. W. Voigt, custodian of the 
Natural History Museum in Bonn.— Dr. Franz Wáhner of Vienna, pro- 
fessor of mineralogy and geology in the German technical school at Prag. 
— Professor Dr. Eugen Warming, director of the Danish Geological Sur- 
vey. — Dr. Sho Watase, professor of zoólogy in the University of Tokyo. — 
Dr. Thomas L. Watson, professor of geology and botany in Denison Uni- 
versity, Granville, Ohio. — Dr. Karl Wenle, professor of anthropology in 
the University at Leipzig. — Gersham F. White, assistant in histology and 
embryology in Cornell University. — Dr. Edwin M. Wilcox, professor of 
biology in the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Ala. — Dr. A. W. 
G. Wilson, assistant on the Geological Survey of Canada. — William F. 
Wismar, assistant in histology and embryology in Cornell University. — 
W. B. Wright, geologist on the Irish staff of the United Kingdom. — 
Dr. Rudolf Zuber, professor of geology in the University at Lemberg. 
RESIGNATIONS. 
Dr. E. B. Copeland, professor of botany in the University of West 
Virginia, legislated out of position by the regents. — Dr. C. L. Herrick, 
from the presidency of the University of New Mexico, on account of ill 
health. — F. W. Hodge, ethnologist in the Bureau of American Ethnology 
at Washington. — Professor Carl Wilhelm von Kupffer, from the director- 
ship of the Anatomical Department of the University at Munich. — 
Dr. E. Suess, from the professorship of geology at Vienna, after nearly | 
fifty years’ service. — Dr. H. Topsóe, director of the Danish Geological 
Survey.— Dr. Arthur Willey, from the curatorship of the Museum at _ 
Demarara. 
DEATHS. 
Dr. G. A. Asp, professor of anatomy in the University at Helsingfors, 
April 25, aged 66. — Rev. Dr. Willis H. Barris, geologist, at vais 
Iowa, in May, aged 79.— Alexander Becker, a Russian botanist an 
entomologist, April 16, aged 82. — Professor M. G. Bleicher of vios 
known for his researches on the geology of the Vosges. — Dr. ret- 
schneider, author of several works on Chinese botany, in St. Petersburg. — 
Dr. Gino Ciaccio, professor of comparative anatomy in the University of 
Bologna. — Dr. E 
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