QUARTERLY RECORD OF GIFTS, APPOINTMENTS, 
AND DEATHS. 
EDUCATIONAL GIFTS. 
Ohio State University, $5000, from Prof. S. W. Robinson, Vassar College ; 
10,000, by the will of Adolph Sutro. 
APPOINTMENTS. 
Jean Bréthes, custodian of insects in the museum at Buenos Aires. — 
Dr. Oskar Ebert, custodian of the collections of the Prussian Geological 
Survey. — T. W. Galloway, professor of biology in Milliken University, 
Decatur, Ill. — Professor Griffon, professor of botany in the N ational 
School for Agriculture at Grignon, France. — Dr. Maurice Jaquet, con- 
servator of the oceanological museum at Monaco. — Dr. Fridolin Kasser, 
professor of botany in the Vienna Agricultural School. — Dr. Adolf 
Klautsch, district geologist of the Prussian Geological Survey. — Dr. Benno 
Kiihn, geologist of the Prussian Geological Survey.— Dr. R. S. Lillie, 
instructor in physiology and histology in the University of Nebraska. — 
Dr. Lorenz v. Liburnau, docent for zoólogy in the Vienna Agricultural 
School.— Dr. Raymond Pearl, instructor in zoólogy in the University of 
Michigan. — Dr. Henry F. Perkins, assistant professor of biology in the 
University of Vermont. — A. R. Ruggles, assistant to the state entomologist 
of Minnesota. — Dr. Sommerfeldt, docent for mineralogy in the university at 
Tübingen. — Dr. Paul Sorauer, docent for plant pathology in the university 
at Berlin. — Dr. F. L. Stevens, professor of biology in the Agricultural 
College at Raleigh, N.C. — Dr. Robert H. Wolcott, assistant professor of 
zoülogy in the University of Nebraska.— Dr. Wilhelm Wolff, district 
geologist of the Prussian Geological Survey.— Dr. Oskar Zoth, professor 
of physiology in the university at Innsbruck. — Prof. R. Albrecht Zimmer- 
mann, botanist of the biological station Amani, in German East Africa. 
DEATHS. 
Alfred Blavy, entomologist, in Montpellier, France. — Oliver Collett, 
student of the Mollusks of Ceylon, at Colombo, June 13, aged 35.— John 
Edward Fletcher, British entomologist, at St. Johns, F ebruary 26, aged 66. 
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