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NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 



SOCIETIES. 



The following appointments are announced ; — Mr. Leonard Hill, to be Lecturer 

 in Physiology at the London Hospital Medical School ; Dr. Purcell, to be Assistant 

 at the South African Museum ; W. A. Rogers, to be Assistant Geologist to the 

 Geological Commission of Cape Colony ; F. E. Willey, of Kew, to be Superinten- 

 dent of the Botanical Station at Sierra Leone ; Professor E. Topsent, of Reims, to 

 the Chair of Zoology at Rennes University; Professor F. Hochstetter, of Vienna, to 

 the Anatomical Chair in Innsbruck University ; Dr. Siedentopf, from Bremen, to be 

 Assistant at the Mineralogical Institute of Gottingen University ; Dr. L. Buscalioni, 

 of Turin, to be Assistant in the Pflanzenphysiologische Institut at Gottingen ; Dr. 

 A. Looss, to be Professor Extraordinarius of Zoology at Leipzig ; Dr. Th. Ebert, to 

 be Professor of Palaeontology, and Dr. MuUer, to be Professor of Regional Geology, 

 in the Prussian Geological Institut ; Dr. F. v. Wagner, of Graz, to be Assistant in 

 the Zoological Institute of Giessen University; Dr. R. Bonnet, of Giessen, to be 

 Professor of Anatomy at Greifswald ; Dr. W. Kurchinsky, of Kiev, to be Extra- 

 ordinary Professor of Physiology at Dorpat ; C. A. Lindstrom, to be Professor in 

 Anatomy, Erik Miiller, to be Professor in Histology, and J. V. Hultkrantz, to be Pro- 

 sector in Anatomy, at the Karolinska Institute, in Stockholm ; Professor G. B. Grassi, 

 of Catania, to be Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Rome University ; Dr. 

 P. Voglino, to be Lecturer in Botany at the University of Turin ; W. A. Lucy, of 

 Lake Forest, 111., to be Professor of Zoology at the North-Western University, 

 Evanston, 111. ; J. M. Coulter, President of Lake Forest University, to be Head 

 Professor of Botany at Chicago University. 



Mr. H. V. Dickens, the present Assistant-Registrar of London University, has 

 been appointed Registrar, in succession to Mr. Milman, retired. Mr. Dickens was 

 specially associated with the scientific part of the London University Examinations, 

 and all those who, as candidates and examiners, have come in contact with his 

 excellent arrangements will be pleased to hear of his promotion. 



Dr. Fridolin v. Sandberger, Professor of Mineralogy at the University of 

 Wiirzburg, who lately celebrated the jubilee of his doctorate, is about to resign from 

 teaching. 



Professor A. N. Beketow, of St. "Petersburg, on resigning his chair, and Dr. 

 J. Hall, of Albany, have been elected honorary members, and Professor Dareste de 

 la Chavanne, of Paris, Dr. C. D. Walcott, of Washington, and Professor G. 

 Retzms, of Stockholm, have been elected corresponding members of the Royal 

 Academy of Science of St. Petersburg. 



The Oxford Delegacy for the Extension of University Teaching propose to 

 reduce their list of lecturers, on account of its congested state. The movement has 

 been productive of a considerable amount of good, but the present tendency seems to 

 be that the more solid part of the work is being transferred to permanent local 

 institutions, several of which have been created by the movement, and that the 

 lighter part is decreasing in importance. 



The Summer School of Art and Science will be held in Edinburgh during 

 August. Tickets may be procured for either the first or the last fortnight, or for the 

 whole session. Mr. G. F. Scott Elliot is to lecture in the section ot geography and 

 geology, and Mr. Elisee Reclus will again be present. Further information may be 

 obtained from the secretary, Mr. T. R. Marr, University Hall. 



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