284 [October 



NEWS 



The following appointments are announced : 



Dr Rodet to be professor of bacteriology in the University of Lyons ; Dr 

 W. Ernest Thomson to the chair of physiology in the Andersonian College, 

 Glasgow ; Dr Alfred Osann to be teacher of mineralogy in the Chemical School 

 of Miilhausen ; Prof. Raphael Blanchard to be ordinary professor of botany in 

 the Medical Faculty of Paris ; Prof. Vladimir I. Belajeff, professor of botany in 

 the University of Warsaw, to be director of the Botanical Garden in the same 

 city ; Prof. Vladimir I. Palladin, of Kharkoff, to be director of the Pomological 

 Garden at Warsaw ; Dr H. V. Neal, of Harvard, to be professor of biology at 

 Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois ; Prof. George Ruge, of Amsterdam, to be 

 professor of anatomy and director of the Anatomical Institute at Zurich ; Dr 

 Joseph Baldwin and Wm. S. Sutton as professors, and W. W. Norman, as 

 assistant-professor, of biology in the University of Texas ; Dr H. Fling, pro- 

 fessor of biology at the Oshkosh Normal School ; Prof. H. de Vries and Prof. 

 Ph. Stohr to be professors of botany and anatomy in the University of Wurz- 

 burg ; Miss A. A. Smith as assistant in botany in Mount Holyoke College, 

 Mass. ; Ernest Wm. MacBride as professor of zoology in McGill University ; 

 and Dr Kihlman as assistant-professor of botany in the University of Hel- 

 singfors. 



Women are now admitted to the College of Physicians in Chicago. 



Mr Alex. White is the recipient of the silver medal of the Zoological Society 

 as a reward for his researches in the fauna of Nyassaland. 



Dr 0. F. von Moellendorff, the well-known conchologist, formerly German 

 Consul at Manilla, has removed to the German Consulate at Kovno, Russia. 



Professor R. Koch has returned to South Africa to continue his experiments 

 on the nature of the rinderpest. The conference of the South African States on 

 this great scourge was held in Pretoria during the first week of August last. 



The Cothenius Gold Medal of the Imperial Leopold-Caroline Academy has 

 been awarded to Prof. Albert von Kolliker, the veteran anatomist of Wiirzburg. 

 The Baly Medal of the Royal College of Physicians of London has been presented 

 to Prof. E. A. Schiifer in l'ecognition of his imjjortant researches in physiology. 



The first Fliickiger Medal — an honour to be awarded every five years by the 

 Gec^nan and Swiss Pharmaceutical Societies alternately — has been presented to 

 Mr Edward Morell Holmes, Curator of the Museum of the Pharmaceutical 

 Society of Great Britain. A short account of Mr Holmes' work in botany, 

 illustrated by an excellent portrait, appears in the Pharmaceutical Journal for 

 Sept. 4. 



Mr William Shaus of Twickenham, late of New York, has presented his 

 collection of tropical Lepidoptera, comprising over 10,000 specimens, to the 

 American Museum of Natural History. Mr E. A. Hoffman has also presented 

 to the same museum his collection of North American Lepidoptera. 



According to the Hevue Scientijique, the late M. J. Jackson left a legacy of 

 100,000 francs each to the Geological Society of France, the French Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, and to other similar bodies. 



