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NEWS 



The following appointments have recently been made : — Miss Catherine A. 

 Raisin, D.Sc, the well-known petrologist, to be Vice-Principal of Bedford College 

 for Women, London ; C. B. Crampton, M.B. of the University of Edinburgh, to be 

 assistant-keeper in the geological department of the Manchester Museum, in suc- 

 cession to H. Bolton ; Prof. C. Chun to be professor of zoology at Leijmg ; Prof. 

 W. Kiikenthal to be professor of zoology at Breslau ; Dr Conrad Keller of the 

 Polytechnicum, Zurich, to be full professor of zoology ; Dr H. E. Ziegler, of Frei- 

 burg, i/B, to be professor of phylogeny at Jena ; Dr C. A. Kofoid to be assistant- 

 professor of zoology at the University of Illinois ; Wallace Craig to be assistant 

 in the State Laboratory of Natural History at the Illinois Biological Station ; 



E. B. Forbes to be field-entomologist of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural 

 History ; J. H. M'Gregor to be assistant in zoology at Columbia University, New 

 York ; G. M. Holman as assistant in biology at the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology ; Dr B. Moore, of University College Hospital, to be professor of 

 pbysiology in the Yale Medical School ; Dr Albert Matthews to be assistant- 

 professor of physiology at Tufts College ; Dr Simon Flexner to be professor of 

 pathological anatomy at Johns Hopkins University ; Dr Joseph Priestly to be 

 teacher of hygiene in the British Institute of Preventive Medicine ; Dr J. P. 

 Hylan to be assistant professor of psychology at the University of Illinois ; Albert 

 Gaillard to be director of the Lloyd Herbarium at Angers ; C. W. Young to be 

 assistant in botany at the University of Illinois ; James Pollock, Hamilton Timber- 

 lake, and Julia W. Snow to be instructors in botanj r at the University of Michigan ; 



F. 0. Grover, of Harvard, to be instructor in botany at Oberlin College, Granville. 

 Ohio. 



Dr Fredrik Wilhelm Christian Areschoug has resigned the professorship 

 of botany at Lund University. 



Prof. E. B. Wilson, of Columbia University, has recently recovered from a 

 serious illness, and will spend next j r ear in travel and research abroad. 



Prof. Flinders Petrie has presented to the Museum of Anatomy and Anthro- 

 pology at Cambridge, nineteen cases of skulls and bones from his excavations at 

 Hieraconopolis. These include remains of the prehistoric and earliest dynastic 

 races in Egypt. 



Lord Walsingham, High Steward of the University of Cambridge, has offered 

 a second medal, in bronze, for specially meritorious essays in biology which do not 

 obtain the Walsingham gold medal. 



The University of Sydney is to be affiliated to that of Cambridge, and students 

 in arts or science who have pursued a certain course at Sydney will be admitted 

 to the usual privileges of affiliated students. 



During the absence of W. H. R. Rivers with Prof. Haddon's Expedition, the 

 course in experimental psychology at University College, London, is being 

 directed by Mr E. T. Dickson. 



Prof. J. W. Traill is to be director of the Cruickshank Botanical Garden at 

 Aberdeen University. 



Mr Briggs S. Cunningham, of Cincinnati, has given $60,000 towards the 

 erection of a building for biology and physics at Cincinnati University. 



We learn from Science that the U.S. Fish Commissioner has presented Cornell 

 University with a collection of fresh-water and salt-water fishes, numbering 

 between four and five hundred thousand specimens. The collection, in so far as 



