NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 



SOCIETIES. 



The following appointments have recently been made : Mr. A. Vaughan 

 Jennings, Demonstrator in Geology and Botany in the Royal College of Science, 

 Dublin ; Dr. Herbert Hurst, Demonstrator in Zoology at the same institution ; Dr. 

 Siefert, as Professor of Forestry at the Technische Hochschule of Karlsruhe ; 

 Joseph Bissett, of Aspatria, as Agricultural Lecturer to the County of Ayr ; 

 Professor Kallies, of Gottingen, to the chair of Anatomy in the University of 

 Tijbingen ; Dr. Emil Yung, as Professor of Comparative Anatomy and Zoology at 

 Geneva University, in succession to Carl Vogt. Mr. G. E. Grimes and E. Vreden- 

 burg, of the Royal College of Science, have entered the Geological Survey of India ; 

 and Dr. M. Miyoshi has been appointed Professor of Botany at Tokio University. 

 Dr. Julius Pohl becomes Professor of Pharmacology at Prague University; Dr. R. 

 Metzner, Professor of Physiology at Basle ; Dr. J. V. Rohon, Professor-Extraordi- 

 narius in Histology at Prague, and Dr. W. Roux, Professor of Anatomy at Halle. 



Professor H. F. Osborn has resigned the Deanship of Columbia College 

 owing to pressure of work — he still retains his Professorship ; Dr. T. P. Lotsy is 

 leaving the botanical school of the Johns Hopkins University to become assistant 

 under Dr. Treub at the Buitenzorg Botanic Garden. 



Paragraphs have appeared in the newspapers recently respecting the changes 

 in progress among the staff of the British Museum (Natural History). Beyond the 

 fact of the retirement of Dr. Albert Gunther (by age limit) in October, nothing has 

 been officially announced, and the various notices which have appeared are purely 

 speculative. 



Professor Albert Kolliker has been elected a correspondent of the R. 

 Accademia dei Lincei; Professors K. W. von GiJmbel, K. A. von Zittel, A. Cossa, and 

 Alexander Agassiz have been elected corresponding members of the Berlin Academy. 

 Baron F. von Mueller and Professor Ferdinand Cohn have been elected to the cor- 

 responding memberships of the Paris Academy, vacated by the deaths of Professor 

 Pringsheim and Count Saporta. 



We are glad to hear that a civil list pension of ;^2oo has been granted to the 

 widow of the late Professor Huxley, whose almost quixotic honesty and generosity 

 in money-matters were well-known. The scheme for the Huxley memorial has 

 grown, and assumed an international form. 



A COMMITTEE has been appointed for the purpose of commemorating the 

 memory of the late Dr. Valentine Ball. It is proposed to place a marble bust of 

 Dr. Ball in the National Museum, Dublin, and, if the funds admit, to have a 

 portrait painted and placed in some suitable position. Dr. Samuel Gordon, Hume 

 Street, Dublin, is the treasurer. A similar committee has been formed in Halifax to 

 commemorate the educational and scientific work of the late Mr. James W. Davis. 

 The memorial is to take the form of a bust and tablet, to be placed in the new 

 Technical School. 



