NEWS. 



The following appointments have recently been made : — J. H. Burkill, as 

 assistant to the director of Kew ; Prof. W. M. Davis, who holds the chair of 

 physical geography in Harvard University, to be Sturgis Hooper professor of 

 geology in the same university ; J. H. Holland, as director of the botanical 

 gardens in Calabar ; Dr. Robert Muir, professor of pathology in University 

 College, Dundee, to be professor of pathology in the University of Glasgow ; 

 C. C. H. Pearson, on the Kew staff, as assistant for India ; A. J. Pieters, to 

 succeed H. Hicks as first assistant botanist in the department of agriculture, 

 Washington ; Dr. Daniele Rosa, of the Zoological Museum in Turin, as professor 

 extraordinarius of zoology in the University of Sassari ; Mr. J. Arthur 

 Thomson, M.A., lecturer on zoology in the School of Medicine, Edinburgh, 

 to be regius professor of natural history in the University of Aberdeen, in 

 succession to the late Prof. H. Alleyne Nicholson. 



The Earl of Kimberley succeeds the late Lord Herschell as chancellor of 

 the University of London. 



The Smithsonian Institution have made the first award of the Hodgkins 

 gold medal to Prof. James Dewar, F.R.S., in recognition of his researches on 

 the liquefaction of air. 



Prof. Milne Edwards, director of the Paris Natural History Museum, has 

 received the Grand Cross of the Swedish Order of the Polar Star from King- 

 Oscar II. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has awarded half of the Lallemand prize to 

 Mr. E. P. Allis for his memoir on the head of Amia, one of the Ganoid fishes. 



A committee has been appointed for the purpose of presenting Dr. Richard 

 Garnett, the late keeper of the printed books at the British Museum, with his 

 portrait, as a mark of esteem and gratitude for his devotion to literature. 



Dr. William Selby Church, senior physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 

 was elected president of the Royal College of Physicians of London, on 

 March 27, in the room of Sir Samuel Wilks, Bart., retired. Dr. Church 

 was Harveian orator in 1895. 



The members of the Palaeontological Society have decided to express their 

 appreciation of the services of their honorary secretary and editor, the Rev. 

 Thomas Wiltshire, by presenting him with a testimonial. Subscriptions are not 

 limited to members of the society, and will be received by the treasurer, Mr. R. 

 Etheridge, F.R.S. 



We learn from the American Naturalist that Prof. A. S. Packard, of Brown 

 University, who has been wintering in the Mediterranean countries, is collecting 

 materials for a life of Lamarck. 



The Times of March 29 notes that another important advance has been 

 made in the movement initiated by the Royal Geographical Society fifteen years 

 ago, for the improvement of geographical education in this country, and the 



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