GIFTS, APPOINTMENTS, RETIREMENTS. 679 
Wesleyan University, $75,000, from Charles Scott, Sr. and Jr., for a physi- 
cal laboratory ; $75,000, from an anonymous donor. 
Western Reserve University, $100,000, from A. A. Pope. 
Yale University, the residue of the estate of Edward W. Southworth, 
estimated at $200,000 to $300,000; a chemical building, costing, with 
the land, $96,000, from Mrs. Thomas G. Bennet ; a building for the 
geological department, from an anonymous donor. 
APPOINTMENTS. 
Dr. Florentino Ameghino, director of the National Museum of Buenos 
Aires. — A. P. Anderson, curator of the herbarium of Columbia University. 
— J. H. Bair, assistant in anthropology in Barnard College. — Dr. F. A. 
Bather, assistant keeper in the department of geology in the British 
Museum. — Dr. A. N. Berlesi, assistant professor of plant pathology in 
the university at Milan. — Dr. Robert S. Breed, professor of biology and 
geology in Alleghany College. — Jean A. Brodhurst, assistant in botany in 
Barnard College. — Dr. R. E. Buffington, assistant in histology in Columbia 
University. — Dr. F. Carara, assistant professor of botany in the university 
at Catania. — Dr. D. Carazzi, assistant professor of zoólogy in the uni- 
versity at Sassari — Dr. Adolf Cluss, professor of bacteriology in the 
university at Halle. — Dr. W. C. Coker, associate professor of botany in 
the University of North Carolina. — Dr. Carl Erich Correns, professor 
extraordinary of botany in the university at Leipzig.— Arthur L. Dean, 
assistant in plant physiology in Yale University. — Dr. R. B. Dixon, 
instructor in anthropology in Harvard University. — Dr. J. E. Duerden, 
interim professor of zoólogy in the University of North Carolina.— Dr. 
B. M. Duggar, professor of botany in the University of Missouri. — Dr. A. 
Fischer, professor of botany in the university at Basel. — Dr. P. A. Fish, 
professor of physiology and pharmacology in Cornell University. — Dr. 
Fournier, professor of geology and mineralogy in the university at 
Besancon. — Professor F. Graff, head of the mineralogical institute at 
Freiburg i. B. — Dr. Caswell Grau, associate in zoólogy in Johns Hopkins 
University. — Dr. Arthur W. Greeley, assistant professor of zoólogy in 
Washington University. — Dr. J. Henscher, professor extraordinary of 
parasitology in the university at Zürich. — Dr. William Hunter of London, 
government bacteriologist at Hongkong.— Dr. Giuseppe Jatta, docent 
for zoólogy in the university at Naples. — Dr. E. C. Jeffrey, assistant pro- 
fessor of vegetable morphology in Harvard University. — Herbert Stanley 
Jevons, lecturer in mineralogy in the University of Sydney, N.S.W. — Dr. 
B. F. Kingsbury, professor of human physiology in Cornell University. — 
Dr. Ludwig Koch, honorary professor of botany at Heidelberg. — Dr. 
Henry B. Kiimmel, state geologist of New Jersey.—Ivey F. Lewis, 
assistant in biology in the University of North Carolina. — Haven Metcalf, 
