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NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 



SOCIETIES. 



The following appointments are announced ; — Mr. E. H. Cunningham- 

 Craig, B.A., of Clare College, Cambridge, to be Assistant Geologist on the 

 Geological Survey of Scotland ; Professor D. Barfurth, of Dorpat, to be Professor 

 of Anatomy at Rostock ; Dr. Smirnow, of Kasan, to be Professor of Histology in 

 Tomsk ; H. Ph. von Norbeck, to be Chief Geologist of the Geological Survey in 

 Vienna ; Professor G. F. Atkinson, to be full Professor and Head of the Depart- 

 ment of Botany (in succession to Professor Prentiss), E. J. Durand, to be Instructor, 

 and K. M. Wiegand, to be Assistant in Botany, at Cornell University ; 

 H. C. Warren, to be Assistant Professor of Experimental Psychology in Princeton 

 University. 



The Professor of Botany in Amsterdam, G. A. J. A. Oudemans, has resigned 

 his appointment on the ground of old age. 



The French Academy of Medicine has awarded the Prix St. Paul, valued at 

 /i.ooo, to Dr. Roux, of the Pasteur Institute, and Dr. Behring, of Berlin, for iheir 

 joint discovery of the croup vaccine. The Academy thus gives official recognition 

 to the claims of the German to be co-discoverer. 



Professor K. A. von Zittel has received the Hayden Medal of the 

 Philadelphia Academy of Natural Science. 



The University of Glasgow has conferred the degree of LL.D. honoris causa on 

 Mr. W. T. Thiselton Dyer, whom local papers describe as " of some standing among 

 horticulturists," but otherwise unknown to fame. The University of Edinburgh 

 has conferred the honorary degree of LL.D. upon Professor Edouard van Beneden, 

 of Liege. 



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The Psychological Review states that a laboratory of experimental psychology 

 has been fitted up at the University of Kansas under the charge of Olin Temple, 

 Professor of Philosophy. 



Professor E. Hering, the successor of Ludwig at Leipzig, is lecturing on the 

 " Physiology of Sensations and Movements." His addresses on " Heredity as a 

 Form of Memory " and " The Specific Energies of the Nervous System " have 

 recently been published as no. i6 of the Religion of Science Library by the Open 

 Court Pubhshing Company, of Chicago, price 15c. 



A NUMBER of scholarships and fellowships for graduates have been established 

 at the University of Pennsylvania by means of a fund of $500,000 left to the 

 University last June by Provost Harrison. "The whole plan," says Science, where 

 full details will be found (vol. iii., p. 513), " aims at building up a cultured group of 

 men interested in the advancement of knowledge and who shall be in residence at 

 the University.' 



