NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 



SOCIETIES. 



The following appointments have recently been made: G. S. Corstorphine, as 

 assistant in charge of fossils and minerals in the S. African Museum. He has begun 

 by reporting on the meagre state of the collections and their want of arrangement. 

 Dr. Carl Barus as Hazard Professor of Physics in Brown University ; J. H. Tyrrell, 

 to be Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in Toronto University ; H. F. Bain, as 

 Assistant State Geologist to the Iowa Geological Survey, succeeding Dr. Keyes, who 

 becomes State Geologist of Missouri ; C. P. Sigerfoos, as assistant in charge of the 

 Marine Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University, to be stationed at Beaufort, 

 N.C., during the summer of 1895 ; Messrs. A. L. Lamb and H. L. Clark, to occupy 

 the Johns Hopkins table in the U.S. Fish Commission Laboratory at Woods' HoU 

 during the present summer; Dr. Beyschlag and Dr. Th. Ebert, to the Berlin 

 Geological Survey ; Dr. Reinitzer, of Prague, as Professor of J3otany at Graz 

 University ; Dr. Robert Scheibe and Dr. Fritz Koller, as Professors in the 

 Bergakademie of Berlin ; Dr. Rex and Dr. Steinbach, as assistant Professors of 

 Anatomy and Physiology in Prague University ; Dr. A. Rolossov, as Professor of 

 Histology and Embryology in Warsaw University ; Dr. Franklin Dexter, as 

 assistant Professor of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School ; Dr. Alfred Schaper, 

 of Zurich, as Demonstrator of Histology and Embryology at the same place. Dr. 

 J. Buchwald, of Berlin, has been placed in charge of the Botanico-Agricultural 

 Station founded at Usambara in German East Africa ; Professor Church and Dr. 

 Fream have been appointed Honorary Professors at the Royal Agricultural College 

 of Cirencester ; and Dr. H. Lenk, Professor of Geology at Leipzig University. 



The South African Review states that Roland Trimen has resigned his position 

 as Curator of the South African Museum, and is returning to England. 



Professor J. W. Judd has received the honour of C.B., and has been appointed 

 by the Lord President of the Council to succeed the late Professor Huxley as Dean 

 of the Royal College of Science. 



Dr. Rudolf S. Bergh, the eminent Danish zoologist, has been elected corre- 

 sponding member of the French Academy of Sciences, in the room of the late 

 Professor Huxley ; Professor Sir William Flower, a correspondent in the Section of 

 Anatomy and Zoology, in the place of M. van Beneden ; Professor Ferdinand Cohn, 

 a correspondent in Botany, to the chair vacated by the death of the Marquis de 

 Saporla ; and Professor G. Retzius as a correspondent in Anatomy and Zoology, in 

 the room of Carl Vogt, deceased. 



It is proposed to celebrate in December next the fiftieth anniversary of the 

 doctorate of Dr. Rudolph Leuckart. A bust of the eminent zoologist is suggested, 

 and Dr. Carl Graubner, 8, Johannesgasse, Leipzig, is empowered to receive the 

 names of those who desire to honour the Professor. Professor Sir Joseph Lister is 

 to be similarly honoured, as a number of his colleagues intend to offer a portrait of 

 the great surgeon to the Royal College of Surgeons, to be placed side by side with 

 that of John Hunter and other benefactors of the human race. 



