NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 



SOCIETIES. 



Dr. J. Playfair McMufrich has resigned his position in the University of 

 Cincinnati, to accept the Professorship of Anatomy in the University of Michigan, 

 at Ann Arbor. 



Several botanical appointments have recently been made. Mr. T. H. Kearney, 

 jun., succeeds the late Dr. Moring as Curator of the Herbarium of Columbia 

 College, New York. Dr. W. Scott has been appointed Director of Forests and 

 of the Botanical Garden in Mauritius. Dr. A. Zimmermann becomes Extraordinary 

 Professor of Botany in the University of Tiibingen ; and Dr. Solereder is now a 

 Curator at the Munich Botanical Institute. 



We regret to learn of the retirement of Dr. E. P. Ramsay from the Directorship 

 of the Australian Museum, Sydney. Dr. Ramsay has been in faiHng heath for some 

 time, and the duties of his office have fallen upon Mr. Robert Etheridge, jun., who 

 has now been chosen as successor. Mr. Etheridge entered the Australian Museum as 

 Palaeontologist in 1887 on leaving the British Museum, and will assume his new 

 office on January i, 1895. 



At the Geological Congress at Zurich it was decided, upon the instigation of 

 Captain Marshall Hall, supported by Professor F. A. Forel, to appoint an Inter- 

 national Committee for furtherance and record of observations upon existing 

 glaciers in different parts of the world. We will give further information so soon 

 as the committee is constituted. 



The Superintendent of the Indian Museum, Calcutta (Surgeon-Captain A. 

 Alcock), has issued an admirable " Guide to the Zoological Collections exhibited in 

 the Invertebrate Gallery of the Indian Museum." It is a little volume of 155 pages, 

 and forms a most concise introduction to Invertebrate Zoology. 



The Bristol Museum is closed for internal and external decoration, and is now 

 being put into a thorough state of repair. Wires have been introduced for electric 

 lighting, the dilapidated cases have been repaired, and the long-neglected collections 

 will thus soon be again safely housed. The advent of municipal control has effected 

 all these improvements, and it would be well if a few more of our languishing 

 provincial museums could be similarly transferred to their respective towns. Mr. 

 Edward Wilson, the energetic Curator, has just issued a new edition of his popular 

 penny Guide, which continues to have a large sale. 



M. Stanislas Meunier has inaugurated an annual exhibition of geological 

 specimens at the Museum of the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, for the purpose of assist- 

 ing geologists to follow and verify the work of the year. The exhibition is to be 



