NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 



SOCIETIES. 



Dr. F. Kohlrausch, of Strassburg, has been appointed to succeed the late 

 Professor Helmholtz as Director of the Imperial Physico-Technical Institute at 

 Berlin. Dr. A. C. Oudemans, the director of the Zoological Gardens at the Hague, 

 to be Professor of Natural History to the Gymnasium at Sneek ; Dr. d'Arsonval 

 succeeds to the chair of Medicine in the College of France, a position formerly held 

 by the late Dr. Brown-Sequard ; Professor Joseph Prestwich has been elected a 

 Vice-President of the Geological Society of France ; and Professor F. von Richthofen 

 a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences, Paris (Mineralogical Section). 



The Wayneflete Professor of Physiology, Mr. J. S. Burdon Sanderson, has been 

 appointed to succeed Sir Henry Acland as the Regius Professor of Medicine at 

 Oxford ; Dr. S. Nawaschin to be Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanic 

 Gardens at Kiev ; F. Oreste Mattirolo, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, 

 Bologna, to be Professor; Mr. J. E. Duerden, Associate of the Royal College of 

 Science, London, and for some time Assistant in the Museum of Science and Art, 

 Dublin, to be Curator of the Jamaica Museum, Kingston, Jamaica ; Mr. Joseph 

 A. Chubb, B.Sc, to be Assistant in the Liverpool Museum, in succession to the late 

 Mr. R. Paden ; and Mr. A. Hutchinson demonstrator of Mineralogy at Cambridge, 

 in succession to Mr. Solly, resigned. 



The following appointments have been recently made in America : — Dr. G. M. 

 Dawson to be Director of the Geological Survey of Canada, in succession to Dr. 

 A. R. C. Selwyn, who has been superannuated ; A. J. Bigney, to be Professor of 

 Natural Sciences, Moore's Hill College, Indiana ; E. G. Conklin, Professor of 

 Biology, North-Western University, Illinois 



As we announced in our November number, the directorship of the Marine 

 Biological Association at Plymouth has been vacated by Mr. E. J. Bles. Mr. E. J. 

 Allen, who has been appointed in his stead, is well-known for his work on the 

 nervous system of the Crustacea. He studied in London under Professor Weldon, 

 and at Berlin under Professor F. E. Schultze. 



Professor J. F. Blake, whose appointment by the Gaekwar of Baroda we 

 announced last month, left England on January 9. Mr. W. H. Hudleston goes 

 to India by the same steamer on a pleasure trip. Mr. H. N. Ridley, whose 

 return to England we chronicled in our January number, is, we are glad to learn, 

 resuming his directorship of the Straits Settlements Forest and Gardens Depart- 

 ment in June. We hope the financial difficulties of the colony will not be such as 

 to cause the authorities to abolish this important economic post. W. Siehe, of 

 Steglitz, near Berlin, for nine years in the Berlin Botanic Gardens, is starting on a 

 botanical journey to the almost unknown district of Cilicia Trachaea. Professors 

 Hausskneckt and Bornmuller have undertaken to work out his collections. 



Mr. James William Watts has obtained the Honours diploma for the science 

 and practice of Forestry at the Grand Ducal Forestry College of Eisenach. He 

 comes from Carlisle, and worked for a time at a seed factory in Erfurt. The 



