NEWS. 



The following appointments have recently been made : — Mr. A. F. Stanley Kent, 

 as professor of physiology in University College, Bristol ; J. L. M'Intyre, as 

 lecturer in comparative psychology in the University of Aberdeen ; C. F. 

 Marbut, promoted to full professorship of geology in the Missouri State 

 University ; Dr. R. Martin, as professor of physical anthropology at Zurich ; 

 J. L. North, as curator of the Museum of the Royal Botanic Society at Regents' 

 Park ; Dr. A. Philippson, privat docent in geography at Bonn, to the title of 

 professor ; Dr. W. Somerville, professor of agriculture at the College of 

 Science, Newcastleon-Tyne, to the new professorship of agriculture in Cam- 

 bridge University; Dr. E. H. Starling, F.R.S., to the Jodrell professorship of 

 physiology in University College, London, in succession to Prof. E. A. Schafer now 

 of Edinburgh ; Dr. E. V. Wilcox, lately professor of zoology in the University of 

 Montana, to a position in the Agricultural Department at Washington, where 

 he will have charge of the zoological items in the Experiment Station Record ; 

 Miss H. V. AVhitten, as tutor in geology in the University of Texas ; Mr. D. 

 L. Wilder, as assistant on the Iowa Geological Survey ; Mr. J. H. Burkill, M.A., 

 as Principal Assistant in the Directors' Office, Royal Gardens, Kew. 



The Duke of Bedford has been elected president of the Zoological Society 

 of London in place of the late Sir William Flower. 



The degree of LL.D. has been conferred by the University of Glasgow on 

 Mr. R. L. Jack, Government geologist of Queensland. 



The degree of LL.D. has been conferred by Clark University on Professors 

 Boltzmann, Picard, Mosso, Ramon y Cajal, and Forel, who lectured at the 

 recent decennial celebration. 



Prof. K. von Zittel has been elected president of the Munich Academy of 

 Sciences. 



Surgeon-General Sir J. Fayrer, author of the " Thanatophidia of India" 

 and other works on snakes, has had a pension of £100 per annum conferred 

 upon him for distinguished service. 



The Baly Gold Medal of the Royal College of Physicians of London, for 

 distinguished work in physiology in the two years preceding the award, has 

 been awarded to Prof. C. S. Sherrington. 



Prof. J. Wiesner, the well-known botanist of Vienna, has been elected a 

 member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, F.R.S., the well-known author of "Vegetable 

 Teratology," etc., has been made an officer of the Order of Leopold by the King 

 of the Belgians. 



Prof. Purser's work as a teacher of physiology for the last twenty-five years 

 at Trinity College, Dublin, is being gracefully recognised by his former pupils, 

 who are raising funds for a " Purser medal," which will be awarded annually to 

 the candidate showing greatest proficiency in physiology and histology in the 

 professional examination. 



It is announced in Science that the Berlin Academy of Sciences has given 

 Prof. Engler a grant of 4000 marks for his botanical work. 



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