NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 



SOCIETIES. 



The following appointments have recently been made : — 



Dr. E. Knoblauch, to be Assistant in the Botanical Institute at Tubingen 

 University ; Dr. P. Dangeard, Professor of Botany to the Faculty of Sciences at 

 Poictiers ; Dr. H. Fischer, to be Assistant in the Botanical Institute at Heidelberg 

 University ; Dr. F. Saccardo, to be Assistant in the Botanical Division of the 

 Royal " Weinbauschule " at Avellino ; Dr. Giinther, Ritter Beck von Mannagetta, 

 to be E.xtraordinary Professor of Systematic Botany at Vienna University ; Dr. F. 

 Schiitt, to be Ordinary Professor of Botany at Greifswald University ; Dr. Karl 

 Futterer, to be Professor of Geology and Mineralogy at the Technical Kigh School of 

 Karlsruhe in Briesgau ; Mr. Frank Finn, to be Deputy Superintendent of the India 

 Museum, Calcutta, in the room of Mr. E. C. Cotes, resigned. Dr. N. V. Ussing 

 succeeds the late Professor Johnstrup in the Chair of Mineralogy, at Copenhagen ; 

 Dr. F. Karsch, becomes Extraordinary Professor of Zoology at Berlin University. 

 Professors E. Du Bois Reymond, K. Weierstrass, and Eduard Suess have been 

 elected honorary members of the Royal Irish Academy ; Professor W. Dames and 

 Dr. P. Groth have been elected Foreign Correspondents of the Geological Society 

 of London ; Professor G. B. Howes succeeds Mr. W. P. Sladen as Secretary of 

 the Linnean Society. 



The Linnean Gold Medal has been awarded to Dr. Ferdinand Cohn, the 

 eminent botanist; the "Prix de Candolle " of the Geneva Physical and Natural 

 History Society has been divided between Dr. O. Warburg, of Berlin, for his mono- 

 graph on the Myristicacese, and Professor R. von Wettstein, of Prague, for his 

 monograph on the genus Euphrasia. Dr. John Murray has received the honorary 

 degree of Doctor of Science from Cambridge University, he has also been awarded 

 the Founder's Medal by the Royal Geographical Society. Both awards are in 

 recognition of his work in connection with the " Challenger " Expedition. The 

 other awards of the Geographical Society have been adjudged as follows: — Patron's 

 Medal to the Hon. George N. Curzon for his travels and publications on Persia, 

 Northern India, and French Indo-China ; Murchison grant to Eivind Astrup for his 

 journey in Greenland with Peary ; Back grant to Captain Larsen for his Antarctic 

 researches ; Gill memorial to Captain Pringle ; Cuthbert Peck grant to G. F. Scott 

 Elliot for exploration of Ruwenzori and the west of Victoria Nyanza. At Com- 

 memoration honorary D.C.L.'s were conferred by Oxford University on Sir William 

 Flower and Professor Michael Foster. 



The Statute establishing a final honour examination in Anthropology in the 

 Honour School of Natural Science at Oxford University was {proh pudor !) rejected 

 by sixty-eight votes to sixty. During his retention of the Readership in Anthro- 

 pology, Dr. E. B. Tylor may, however, solace himself with the title Professor. 



Canada is to have a National Park. The Algonquin Park, for so it is called, 

 will be a large reservation in the province of Ontario. The American Naturalist states 

 that no hunting, trapping, or destruction of animal life will be permitted within its 

 boundaries. 



