NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 



SOCIETIES. 



The following appointments have recently been made : — Dr. T. Smith, as 

 Professor of Applieil Zoology at Harvard University ; Deputy Surgeon-General 

 Billings, of the " Catalogue of the Surgeons' General Library," to the chair of 

 Hygiene in the University of Pennsylvania ; W. G. Ellis, as Demonstrator of 

 Botany in the University of Cambridge ; Dr. T. G. Brodie, as Lecturer on Physio- 

 logy at St. Thomas's Hospital, London, in succession to Professor Sherrington ; 

 Charles D. Aldright, to be Instructor in Biology in the University of Cincinnati, 

 U.S.A. ; Charles Leigh, Attendant in the Library at the British Museum (Nat. 

 Hist.), to be Assistant Secretary and Librarian to the Manchester Literary and 

 Philosophical Society. Dr. E. Hering, of Prague, succeeds Carl Ludwig as Professor 

 of Physiology at Leipzig. Dr. Hans Schinz takes rank as Ordinary Professor of 

 Botany at Zurich. Professor W. Peterson, of Dundee, is elected Principal of McGill 

 University, m the room of Sir J. W. Dawson. Dr. E. C. Quereau becomes Professor 

 of Geology and Mineralogy in Syracuse University, U.S. Dr. T. T. Groom succeeds 

 the late Allen Harker as Professor of Natural History at the Royal Agricultural 

 College, Cirencester, and Mr. S. S. Buckman will now be relieved of the temporary 

 duties he undertook at Mr. Harker's death. 



Dr. A. KowALEWSKV has been elected by the Paris Academy a corresponding 

 member (zoology), in place of G. H. Cotteau. Sir Archibald Geikie has been 

 elected a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Science in Vienna. 

 Dr. A. R. C. Selwyn has been elected President of the Royal Society of Canada for 

 the session 1895-96. Professor T. T. Groom, of Cirencester, has received the 

 degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa, from the University of London. Mr. J. S. 

 Gardiner, of Caius College, Cambridge, will occupy the University Table at the 

 Naples Zoological Station from October, 1895, to March, 1896. Mr. A. W. Rogers, 

 of Christ's College, Cambridge, has been awarded the Harkness Scholarship in 

 Geology. Mr. Walter E. Collinge has been awarded the Darwin Medal by the 

 Midland Union of Naturalists for his researches on the cranial nerves and sensory 

 canal-system of fishes. Dr. I^oux has received a gold medal, specially struck for the 

 occasion, from the Paris Municipal Council for his discovery of anti-diphtheritic 

 serum. 



Johns Hopkins University has founded a Geological Lectureship in memory 

 of Professor G. H. Williams. There will be a short course each year, and men 

 eminent in their science will be asked to deliver each series. The first offer has 

 been made, we understand, to Sir Archibald Geikie. This, besides being compli- 

 mentary to foreign geologists, will be of considerable advantage to American 

 students, for they will thus obtain new and different views of the subject, and will 

 find an increased interest in languages other than their own. 



Professor Lloyd Morgan will deliver a series of four lectures on the Habits 

 and Instincts of Birds, before the Biological Class of Columbia University next 

 winter. 



Memorials to Professor Huxley are mooted. Since he received his early 

 scientific and the whole of his medical education at the Charing Cross Hospital 



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