NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 



SOCIETIES. 



Professor Dr. E. Rathay has become Director of the " onologisch- 

 pomologischen Lehranstalt " at Klosterneuburg, near Vienna, and Dr. C. Rechingen 

 provisory assistant to the botanical chair at Vienna. Dr. Rene Koehler has been 

 appointed Professor of Zoology to the Faculty of Sciences of Lyon, and Mr. 

 Wm. B. Marshall, of the New York State Museum, Professor of Biology in 

 Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania. The Kansas State University has 

 divided the subject of Geology between two chairs, giving stratigraphical and 

 physical geology to Professor E. Haworth, and leaving palaeontology in the hands 

 of Professor Williston. 



Dr. William King, the late Director of the Indian Geological Survey, is on his 

 way home to England. Mr. C. L. Griesbach has been temporarily placed in 

 charge, and as he is the senior official, it is probable that he will succeed to the 

 vacated post. 



Mr. Peter Esslemont, the head of the Scottish Fishery Board, has just died. 

 It is to be hoped that his successor will have a competent scientific acquaintance 

 with the matters with which he has to deal. No more suitable successor could be 

 found than Mr. John Murray, of the " Challenger." We understand that strong 

 representations in his favour have already been made by a large number of scientific 

 men, and we need do no more than endorse their recommendation. 



Dr. Felkin has been appointed to represent the Royal Scottish Geographical 

 Society at the meeting of the German Congress of Naturalists and Physicians, to 

 be held in Vienna during the month of September. 



Dr. Julius Wiesner has been receiving the congratulations of his past and 

 present pupils on the completion of the twenty-fifth year of his professorship, the 

 twentieth year of his presidency over the Institute of Plant Physiology of the Vienna 

 University, founded by himself, and, thirdly, on the occasion of his safe return from 

 a long journey of exploration to Java. The Professor was presented with an 

 address and a silver medal of great artistic xalue. 



Professor Dr. Pfitzer, of Heidelberg, has been raised to the dignity of 

 Geheim-hofrath. A commitittee has been formed in Gera to erect a monument to 

 the deceased ornithologist, Karl Theodor Liebe. The Zoological Garden of Berlin, 

 having reached its jubilee, proposes to erect a monument to the energetic director. 

 Dr. Heinrich Bodinus. Subscriptions may be sent to Mr. E. Weigel, 141 

 Frankfurterstrasse, Berlin, O. 



A Curator is wanted for the Museum of the Institute of Jamaica, at Kingston, 

 Jamaica. The appointment will be for three years, and is renewable at the end 

 of that period. Applications should be addressed to the Secretary of the Institute 

 of Jamaica, care of Messrs. H. Sotheran & Co., 140 Strand, London, W.C, not 

 later than October 15, and should be marked "Curator, Institute of Jamaica." 

 Further information may be obtained from Messrs. Sotheran. The salary offered 

 is at the rate of ;f400 a year. 



