NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 



SOCIETIES. 



Mr. Christopher Heath has been elected President of the Royal College of 

 Surgeons in the room of the late Mr. Hulke. Dr. Patrick Manson has been 

 appointed Lecturer on Tropical Diseases at St. George's Hospital. This hospital is 

 the first institution, so far as we know, which has provided for special instruction in 

 tropical medicine in London. Professor C. S. Sherrington, late Fellow of Gonville 

 and Caius College, Cambridge, has been appointed to succeed Professor Gotch in 

 the George Holt Chair of Physiology at the University College, Liverpool ; 

 Professor E. L. Greene succeeds to the Botanical Chair in the Catholic University 

 of Washington ; Mr. T. T. Groom has succeeded the late Professor Allen Harker 

 as Professor of Natural History to the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester ; 

 Mr. J. C. Sumner has been appointed by the Liverpool Marine Biological 

 Committee to be Curator of the Port Erin Station ; Mr. J. Percy Moore is taking 

 temporary charge of the late Professor J. A. Ryder's classes at the University of 

 Pennsylvania. 



Sir Joseph Lister received at the hands of the Prince of Wales, on the 9th 

 inst., the Albert Medal, awarded to him by the Society of Arts for " The discovery 

 and establishment of the antiseptic method of treating wounds and injuries, by 

 which not only has the art of surgery been greatly prompted and human life saved 

 in all parts of the world, but extensive industries have also been created for the 

 supply of materials required for carrying the treatment into effect." 



Mr. John Ward, of Longton, has been awarded the Robert Garner Medal by 

 the North Staffordshire Field Club for his researches into the fossil fauna of his 

 county. Mr. Ward's fine collection of Coal-measure fishes has been added to the 

 national collections, and he is now working up the molluscan fauna of the same 

 series of rocks. 



We learn from Nature that the Paris Geographical Society has awarded its 

 prizes for 1895, as follows :— Gold medals, to Lieut. L. Mizon, for his explorations 

 in West Africa; E. Gautier, for his explorations in Madagascar; F. Foureau, for 

 his explorations in the Sahara ; E. Ponel, for his explorations in the region of the 

 French Congo ; Th. Moureaux, for his magnetic map of France ; Father Colin, for 

 his observations and triangulations in Madagascar ; A. Courtry, for the production 

 of a map of the Congo ; V. de la Blache, for his general atlas ; and Dr. Thoroddsen, 

 for his explorations in Iceland. Silver medals have been conferred upon E. I' 

 Poncins, for his journey from Turkestan to Kashmir by the Pamirs ; J. Gaultier, 

 for his works on the production of plans by photography ; B. d'Attanoux, for his 

 exploration in the Sahara; and J. Forest, for his studies on the breeding and habits 

 of the ostrich in the Sahara. The Jomard prize has been awarded to L. A. Rainaud, 

 for his memoir entitled " Le Continent austral: hypothese et decouverte." 



Professor John Milne had just resigned his appointment at Tokio, and was 

 on the eve of his final return to England, when, on February 17, his house, his 



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