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NEWS 



The following appointments are announced : — Dr A. A. Kanthack to be 

 professor of pathology, and J. Graham Kerr to be demonstrator of animal mor- 

 phology, in the University of Cambridge ; Dr A. W. Sheen to be demonstrator of 

 anatomy in the medical department of University College, Cardiff; Dr Max von 

 Frey, of Leipzig, to be professor of physiology in the High School of Zurich ; Dr 

 W. Eothert, of Kazan, to be professor of botany and director of the physiological 

 division of the botanical department of the University of Charkow ; Henry S. 

 Pritchett, of Washington University, St Louis, to be superintendent of the U.S. 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey ; William S. Carter to be professor of physiology in 

 the University of Texas ; Dr Arthur Allin to be professor of psychology in 

 Colorado University ; Dr Francis Kennedy to be demonstrator in experimental 

 psychology in Princeton University. 



Sir Archibald Geikie has been appointed Romanes Lecturer at Oxford for 

 1898. 



Dr Hans Molisch of Prague intends to spend the coming winter in botanical 

 research at Buitenzorg, Java. 



Dr Arthur Willey has returned to Cambridge, where he proposes to 

 investigate his collections during the winter. 



The tenth annual meeting of the Geological Society of America will be held 

 in M'Gill University, Montreal, at the end of December. 



Letters from Mr C. W. Andrews announce his safe arrival in Christmas 

 Island, where he has already made some progress in collecting. 



We are pleased to learn from Sir Frederick M'Coy that our announcement of 

 his retirement from his professorship in the University of Melbourne is premature. 



' The Louisiana Society of Naturalists ' has been founded at New Orleans to 

 investigate systematically the fauna and flora of the State of Louisiana, which has 

 hitherto been much neglected. 



The new building for the Radcliffe Library at Oxford is to be towards the 

 western end of the south front of the University Museum, that is to say, the end 

 where the chemical laboratories are. 



A Laboratory for Experimental Psychology has, says the Psychological 

 Review, been opened in the Illinois Eastern Hospital for the Insane, at 

 Hospital, 111., under the direction of Dr W. O. Krohn. 



According to Science, the University of the State of New York, following the 

 plan it has adopted of lending to the schools libraries and pictures, offers to make 

 loans of specimens of natural history from the State collections. 



The Annual Report of the Preston Scientific Society for 1896-97 records the 

 accession of more than one hundred members during the year. Sections for 

 technical scientific work have been formed, and we look forward to interesting 

 results. 



