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NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 



SOCIETIES. 



The following appointments have recently been made: — M. D. Hill, to succeed 

 W. L. Sclater as curator of the Museum and Lecturer in natural science at Eton 

 College ; Dr. Otto Mugge, to be Professor of Mineralogy at Konigsberg ; Dr. 

 A. Weiss, to be Assistant in the Mineralogical Institute of Greifswald University ; 

 Professor Theodore von der Goltz, to be Professor of Agriculture at Bonn Univer- 

 sity ; Dr. K. Fritsch, to be Extraordinary Professor of Systematic Botany in Vienna 

 University ; Dr. K. Mikosch, to be Professor of Botany at the Briinner Polytechni- 

 kum ; Felix Bassler, as Assistant in the Agricultural Institute at Leitmeritz ; Dr. G. 

 Horvath, of Budapesth, to be Director of the Zoological Department of the National 

 Museum in that city ; Dr. R. de Girard, Privat-docent in Geology at the Ziirich 

 Polytechnikum, to be Extraordinary Professor ; Dr. F. Saccardo, to be Professor of 

 Plant-pathology at the School for Viticulture in Avellino ; Dr. W. J. Nickerson, of 

 Colorado University, to be Instructor in Biology at the University of Evanston, 111. ; 

 Charles D. Aldright, to the similar post at the University of Cincinnati; Dr. W. A. 

 Setchell, of Yale College, to be Professor of Botany in California University ; Dr. 

 C. A. Strong, to be Lecturer on Psychology in Columbia College, N.Y. ; Dr. W. S. 

 Strong, to be Professor of Geology in Bates College, Lewiston, Maine ; W. J. 

 Blake, to be Professor of Geology and Mining at Arizona University ; T. C. Hopkins, 

 to be Assistant Professor of Geology in the Pennsylvania State College ; Thomas 

 A. Jaggar, to be Instructor in Geology, and Dr. Chas. Palache, to be Assistant in 

 Mineralogy, at Harvard University ; Dr. F. Katzer, formerly Assistant in the 

 Mining Academy, Leoben, to be Director of the Geological Department of the Para 

 Museum. Dr. Knuth, of the Kiel Ober-Realschule, has been raised to the dignity 

 of Professor. 



This year Lord Kelvin will celebrate his jubilee as Professor of Natural History 

 in the University of Glasgow. The authorities of the University and the Munici- 

 pality of the City intend to recognise this in some adequate manner. 



The Anthropological Institute of Great Britain has elected Dr. Hjalmar Stolpe, 

 of Stockholm, an honorary member. Dr. Stolpe is well known for his ethnographical 

 and archaeological researches, and especially for his investigations on the evolution 

 of savage art. 



The a merican Geologist announces that Professor James Hall has had several 

 gold medals struck to commemorate the services of some of the men who have 

 enabled him to carry on his official work in the State of New York. Among these 

 are Jacob A. Cantor, James W. Husted, Daniel P. Wood, and Danforth E. 

 Ainsworth : legislators whose friendship for science might otherwise have passed 

 unrecognised. 



The Director of the British Museum (Natural History) has written a special 

 letter to Mrs. Henry Seebohm, conveying to her the thanks of the Trustees for the 

 bequest of the late Mr. Seebohm's ornithological collection, and their high apprecia- 

 tion of his labours in the cause of that science. " The collection," says the letter, 

 " is found to contain about 16,950 specimens, including 235 skeletons, and in extent 



