NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 



SOCIETIES. 



Professor W. Kukenthal has returned to Jena from his zoological excursion 

 in Borneo. Dr. M. von Davidoff requests that all letters for him be sent to Ville- 

 franche-sur-mer, France, till July 15, 1895. 



Dr. John Murray has been awarded the "Prix Cuvier" by the Academie des 

 Sciences, Paris. The last Englishman who received this honour was the late Sir 

 Richard Owen. The Cotheaius medal of the Royal Academy of Berlin has been 

 awarded to Dr. Hans Bruno Geinitz, in Dresden On October 16, 1894, Dr. Geinitz 

 completed fifty years' membership of the Academy, and celebrated his eightieth 

 birthday. 



Mr. Mathew Davenport Hill, late scholar of New College, Oxford, has 

 -been elected to the Oxford Biological Scholarship at Naples. Mr. J. H. Burkill, 

 late scholar of Caius College, Cambridge, and Assistant Curator at the Herbarium, 

 has been awarded the Walsingham medal. 



Professor Charles S. Prosser, of Washington College, Kansas, has been 

 appointed to the chair of geology at Union College, Schenectady, N.Y. Dr. 

 Harrison Allen has resigned the directorship of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy in 

 Philadelphia, and Dr. Horace Jayne has been appointed in his place. Mr. T. H. 

 Kearney, jun, has become curator of the Herbarium jn Columbia College, New 

 York ; Dr. S. Nawaschin, Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanic Garden 

 at Kiev University ; and Dr. K. Schilbersky, Professor of Botany and Vegetable 

 Pathology at the Agricultural Institute, Budapest. The University of Chicago is 

 forming a department of Botany, under Professor J. M. Coulter. 



Mr. Horace B. Woodward has been added to the editorial staff of the 

 Geological Magazine, and will be a strong addition to the working editors. Professors 

 Pfeffer, of Leipzig, and Strasburger, of Bonn, have succeeded to the editorship of 

 the Jahrbiichev fur Wissenscha/tliche Botanik, formerly held by Professor Pringsheim. 

 Communications should be sent to Professor Pfeffer. ■ 



Professor J. F. Blake, has been appointed to arrange the collections of the 

 Gaekwar of Baroda, stored in the Baroda Museum. Professor Blake leaves 

 England about the end of December. This will not in any way delay the issue of 

 his well-known " Annals of British Geology." The last volume, that for 1893, is 

 expected to appear early in 1895. 



In issuing the twenty-sixth annual report of the Silesian Botanical Exchange 

 Club, the director, Mr. S. Mayer, remarks on the increasing difficulty of satisfying 

 the demand for new plants, and the limited means available for getting collections 

 made abroad. He has accordingly resolved to make a personal expedition to the 

 tropics, and has chosen Singapore as a base of operations, with the intention of 

 exploring botanically the Malayan Peninsula and Siam, and visiting the Sunda 

 Archipelago. 



