DR. PAUL HAUPT, Professor of Assyriology in the University of Göttingen, having accepted a call to the Johns Hopkins University as Professor of the Shemitic Languages, entered upon his duties in September. Nine students are now enrolled under his instruction. Classes are organized in Hebrew, Arabic, Assyrian, Ethiopic, and SumeroAccadian. A special room has been set apart as a library and working room for those who are engaged in Oriental Studies under the direction of Dr. Haupt in the Shemitic tongue, and of Dr. Bloomfield in Sanskrit and the cognate languages.

The enlarged facilities of the BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY, and the call of Dr. Sedgwick to Boston after the announcements for the year were made, have caused several changes in the Biological staff, which, as organized for the current year, is as follows: Director, H. N. Martin, Professor of Biology.

Director of the Chesapeake Zoological Laboratory, W. K. Brooks, Associate Professor of Biology.

Lecturer for the current year on Botany, Professor William Trelease, of the University of Wisconsin.

Lecturer on Psychology, Dr. G. Stanley Hall.

Assistants, H. H. Donaldson, H. W. Conn, and Otto Lugger.

The persons below named have been appointed by the University teachers of MODERN LANGUAGES:

German: G. Theodore Dippold, Ph. D., Boston University, 1883, late Instructor in the Boston University.

French: Henry A. Todd, A. B., Princeton College, 1876, Fellow and Tutor in Princeton College, 1876-80.

In addition to the facilities heretofore given, a conversational class has been formed in German by Dr. Lehmann, and in French by Mr. Fontaine, under the guidance respectively of Mr. Elliott and Dr. Wood.

The following promotions and appointments of gentlemen recently connected with the Johns Hopkins University have been reported at the office, viz. :

EDWARD BARNES, Graduate Student, 1882-83, Professor of the Higher Mathematics in the Rose Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute, Indiana.

WILLIAM H. CARPENTER, Fellow by Courtesy, 1881-83, Instructor in the Scandinavian Languages in Columbia College.

R. DORSEY COALE, Ph. D., 1881, Fellow and Assistant, 1880-83, Lecturer on Chemistry in the University of Maryland.

WILLIAM C. DAY, A. B., 1880, Ph. D., 1883, Fellow, 1881-83, Professor of Chemistry and Physics in St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland.

GEORGE S. ELY, Ph. D., 1883, Fellow, 1881-83, Professor of Mathematics in Buchtel College, Ohio.

WILLIAM S. FLEMING, Fellow, 1882-83, Professor of Greek and German in Davidson College.

KAKICHI MITSUKURI, Ph. D., 1883, Fellow, 1880-81, Professor of Zoology in the University of Tokio, Japan.

WILLIAM A. NOYES, Ph. D., 1882, Professor of Chemistry in the University of Tennessee. BERNARD F. O'CONNOR, Ph. D., 1883, Fellow, 1880-82, Instructor in French in Columbia College.

WILLIAM T. SEDGWICK, Ph. D., 1881, Fellow, Assistant, and Associate in Biology, 1879-83), Assistant Professor of Biology in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.