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NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 



SOCIETIES. 



Mr. Frederic Du Cane Godman has been elected a Trustee of the British 

 Museum. 



We note the following appointments: — Dr. A. A. Kanthack, of St. John's 

 College, to be Deputy Professor of Pathology at Cambridge, while Professor Roy 

 is unable to lecture; Mr. Robert Harrison, to be Assistant Secretary to the Royal 

 Society, in place of Mr. H. Rix, resigned ; James G. Lawn, Instructor in Mine Sur- 

 veying at the Royal College of Science, London, to be Professor of Mining at the 

 South African School of Mines ; Dr. L. Joubin, to be Professor of Zoology to the 

 Faculte des Sciences, Rsnnes ; Dr. H. Prouho, to be Professor Adjunct of Zoology 

 to the Faculte des Sciences, Lille ; Dr. A. Fleischmann, to be Extraordinary Professor 

 of Anatomy and Zoology, and Director of the Zoological Institute at Erlangen ; Dr. 

 Ludwig Kathariner, of Wurzburg, to be Professor of Zoology and Comparative 

 Anatomy at Fribourg University ; Dr. Hermann Henking, to be Extraordinary 

 Professor of Zoology at Gottingen University ; Dr. G. Rorig, Teacher in Entomo- 

 logy at the Agricultural High School at Berlin, to be Extraordinary Professor of 

 Zoology in Konigsberg University ; Dr. Zuber, of Lemberg University, to be Extra- 

 ordinary Professor of Geology ; Professor F. S. MonticeUi, of Sassari University, to 

 be Professor of Zoology at Cagliari University; Procopianu-Procopoiici, to be 

 Inspector, Dr. Theodorescu and Madame Malinescu, to be Assistants, at the Botanic 

 Gardens, Bucharest ; Dr. Victor Schiffner, to be Extraordinary Professor of Syste- 

 matic Botany in the German University at Prague; Drs. H. Harms, Th. Loesener, 

 and P. Graebner, to be Assistants in the Imperial Botanic Museum at Berlin ; Drs. 

 R. Wagner and A. I. Grevillius, to similar appointments in the Botanic Institutes of 

 Munich and Miinster, respectively ; Dr. Fr. Siche, to be Professor of Pomology in 

 the Pomological Institution at Kloster-Neuberg ; L. S. Cheney, Instructor in Botany 

 at Wisconsin University, to be Assistant Professor of Botany in the College of Phar- 

 macy ; Dr. R. H. True, Instructor, to be Assistant Professor of Pharmacognoscy in 

 Wisconsin University ; Dr. Henry Skinner, to be Professor in the Department of In- 

 secta in the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences ; Dr. H. F. Reid, of Cleveland, 

 Ohio, to be Associate Professor of Geological Physics in Johns Hopkins University ; 

 Professor E. B. Delabarre, of Brown University, to be Director of the Psychological 

 Laboratory of Harvard University, during the absence of Professor Miinsterberg 

 next year; J. E. Lough, to be Instructor in Experimental Psychology, and C. M. 

 Bakewell, to be Instructor in Psychology at Harvard; Dr. H. Newland to be Fellow 

 of Columbia University in Geology, P. A. Rydberg in Botany, H. E. Crampton, jun., 

 and J. H. Macgregor in Zoology, and S. J. Franz and L. B. McWhood in 

 Psychology. 



The following changes have recently been made on the staff of the Geological 

 Survey:— A. Strahan, to be Geologist on the English branch, in place of J. R. 

 Dakyns, who has retired after 34 years' service ; C. T. Clough, to be Geologist on 

 the Scottish branch, in place of the late Hugh Miller. These gentlemen are suc- 

 ceeded as Assistant Geologists by Mr. T. Crosbee Cantrill, B.Sc, and Mr. E. H. 

 Cunningham-Craig, in England and Scotland respectively. 



Dr. Molengraaf, of Amsterdam, whose work in South African geology is well 

 known, has been appointed State Geologist by the Transvaal Government. It is 

 more likely than not that the Geological Survey will be persevered in longer in the 

 Transvaal than it was in the Orange Free State, as the inducement of having gold 



