NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 



SOCIETIES. 



Sir Joseph Lister, F.R.S , has accepted the presidency of the British Associa- 

 tion for the meeting at Liverpool in 1896. 



Mr. Francis Gotch, F.R.S., Professor of Physiology at the University College, 

 Liverpool, has been elected Waynflete Professor of Physiology in the room of 

 Professor Burdon Sanderson ; as the former assistant of Professor Sanderson, Mr. 

 Gotch is well known in Oxford, where his return will be warmly welcomed. 



Mr. T. H. Kearney, who only recently became curator of the Columbia College 

 Herbarium, has become assistant in the Botanical Section of the U.S. Department 

 of Agriculture. Dr. F. von Tavel has been appointed curator of the Botanical 

 Museum of the associated Polytechnics in Zurich. Dr. Alfred Koch becomes extra- 

 ordinary Professor of Plant Physiology at Gottingen. Professor L. Guignard, 

 President of the Botanical Society of France, succeeds the late Professor Duchartre 

 in the Botanical Section of the Acidemy of Sciences at Paris. Mr A. B. Badger, of 

 New College, Oxford, has been appointed Organising Secretary for Technical 

 Instruction, Carnarvonshire, with special charge of scientific education. Mr. H. C. 

 Chadwick, who has done some work on the Echinoderms of the Liverpool area, is 

 now Chief Assistant in the Museum at Bootle, the natural history collections of 

 which have long been in great need of attention. Mr. R. T. Giinther has been 

 elected to the Geographical Studentship at Oxford University. 



Dr. W. Branco has, according to the Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia, resigned 

 his Professorship at Tubingen. Dr. Branco is best known for his researches on the 

 embryology of extinct Cephalopoda, but has recently published an important work 

 on the embryology of extinct volcanoes, " Schwabens 125 Vulkan-Embryonen." 



The awards of the Russian Geographical Society have been bestowed as 

 follows :— Constantine medal to Professor S. Nikitin ; Liitke medal to P. K. 

 Zalesski for his work in Turkestan ; the gold medal to Dr. N. A. Karyshev for 

 Economics ; the Prjevalski award of /60 to Dr. V. A. Obruchev for his travels in 

 Turkestan and Central Asia. The Prjevalski silver medal was awarded to Baron 

 Toll and Lieutenant Shiliko for their recent journey in Siberia. 



In recognition of the distinguished services of Professor Guido Cora to 

 geographical science, a committee has been formed to consider and report upon a 

 suitable testimonial to him. Professor Cora has devoted his life and his fortune to 

 the advancement of geography, and already in 1873, when he was a young man of 

 twenty-two, the Royal Geographical Society of London elected him an honorary 

 member, awarding him their gold medal in 1886. The present testimonial is 

 promoted by his old students of the Royal University of Turin, and they invite the 

 cooperation of all who desire to honour the founder of " Cosmos." Those desirous 

 of expressing their consideration for the professor should communicate with 

 Professor Dr. U. Menicoff or Professor Dr. P. Revelli, at Turin. 



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