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Among recent appointments, we notice those of : Mr Herbert Bolton, F.R.S.E., 

 who for the last eight years has held the post of assistant keeper in the Man- 

 chester Museum, to the curatorship of the Bristol Museum ; Miss Agnes Mary 

 ( Maypole of Wellesley College, to be assistant in the department of histology 

 and comparative physiology in ( lornell University ; Dr Chas. H. Judd, of 

 Wesleyan University, to be professor of physiological and experimental psy- 

 chology in the School of Pedagogy, New York University, being succeeded as 

 instructor of philosophy at AVesleyan University by Dr Raymond Dodge ; 

 Dr D. S. Miller to be lecturer in psychology at Columbia University, and Dr E. 

 Thorndyke to a similar post at Western Reserve University. 



The new buildings of Reading College were opened by the Prince of Wales 

 on June 11th. He explained that the Institution had for its object the advance- 

 ment of higher education, especially in those branches more particularly connected 

 with the science and art of agriculture. Reading College is an outcome of Oxford 

 University Extension work, and it is hoped that it may be affiliated to the parent 

 University for the purpose of training students in the science and practice of 

 agriculture as part of their University career. For the present, however, Oxford 

 University has rejected this proposal by a very narrow majority. 



Lady Warwick has established a small school of science on her estate at 

 Bigods near Dunmow in Essex. Mr E. E. Hennesey of the Royal College of 

 Science has been appointed principal of the school, which is attended by about 

 sixty pupils of both sexes. The Essex County Council is interesting itself in the 

 movement, and we agree with Nature that the experiment in every way deserves 

 success. 



The people of Birmingham are no longer satisfied with Mason University 

 College, but wish to have a University of their own in which Technical Science 

 should be one of the faculties. A meeting was held in the city on July 4, and 

 speeches were delivered by Mr G. H. Kenrick, who has promised £10,000, Prof. 

 W. A. Tilden, the Bishop of Hereford, and Mr Joseph Chamberlain. 



Dr E. D. Pearsons, of Chicago, has presented $25,000 to Pomona College, 

 California, for the erection of a science building. 



The Loubat prizes of Columbia University, awarded every fifth year, have 

 this year been given to Mr W. H. Holmes, of the U.S. National Museum (who 

 receives $1,000), and to Dr Franz Boas, of the American Museum of Natural 

 History (who receives $400), for work on archaeology and ethnology of North 

 America. We note that Mr Joseph F. Loubat has recently presented $1,100,000 

 to the Library of Columbia University. 



Prof. J. Reighard, of Michigan University, accompanied by Prof. H. B. 

 Ward, of Nebraska University, Mr A. J. Pieters, and others, is making a biologi- 

 cal examination of Lake Erie. 



From the report of the Linacre Professor of Comparative Anatomy we learn 

 that the most important recent additions to the objects exhibited in the court of 

 the Oxford University Museum are a cast of the skeleton of the gigantic extinct 

 reptile, Iguanodon bernissartensis, from Brussels ; a cast of the skeleton of the 

 extinct theromorphous reptile, Pareiasaurus bnini, from the Cape Colony ; a cast 

 of the five-toed ancestral ungulate, Phenacorf us pri maerus, from the U. S. America ; 

 a cast of the skull of the gigantic extinct bird Phororhacos longissimus, from 

 Patagonia ; and an actual specimen of the extinct shark, Cladosdache fijleri, from 



