NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES. MUSEUMS, AND 



SOCIETIES. 



Mr. C. L. Griesbach has been appointed the successor to the Directorship of 

 the Geological Survey of India, in the room of Dr. WilHam King, retired. 



Mr. Charles L. Edwards, lately of the University of Texas, has been elected 

 Professor of Biology in the University of Cincinnati, Ohio. 



The fine collection of fossil Echinoids that belonged to the late Gustave Cotteau 

 has been presented to the Ecole des Mines, Paris. 



According to the American Naturalist, the American Museum of Natural 

 History has organised an expedition, under the direction of Professor Rudolph 

 Weber, to make collections in, and a scientific exploration of, the Island of Sumatra. 



Mr. W. Holman Hunt has been appointed the Romanes Lecturer for 1895. 

 Though Mr. Holman Hunt is best known in the regions of pure art, his presidential 

 address to the Sunday Society, quoted in Natural Science, vol. v., p. 15, showed 

 him to have a true sympathy with science. 



Dr. James E. Talmage has been appointed to a newly-founded Professorship 

 of Geology in the University of Utah. The chair has been endowed with a sum 

 of |6o,ooo by the Salt Lake Literary and Scientific Association, and the Deseret 

 Museum, belonging to this Association, has been placed at the disposal of the 

 University. 



At the annual conversazione of the Chester Society of Natural Science on 

 October 8, the Kingsley Medal was awarded to the President, Dr. Henry Dobie, 

 whose first contribution to science was published so long ago as 1849, and related 

 to the minute structure of voluntary muscular fibre. In 1850 and 1851, Dr. Dobie 

 published some observations on the cilia in the sponge Grantia, and he has 

 subsequently made contributions to our knowledge of the rotifers. 



The cases for the Barrande Collection of Lower Palaeozoic Fossils in the Royal 

 Bohemian Museum, Prague, are now fixed, and more than 20,000 specimens are 

 already mounted for exhibition. Dr. Anton Fritsch, the director, estimates that the 

 arrangement of the entire collection will occupy nearly a year. The Barrande Fund 

 is at present being devoted to the publication of a memoir on Graptolites, by Dr. 

 Perner. 



The Museum of La Plata will shortly issue the second part of Mr. Lydekker's 

 memoir on the Fossil Vertebrata of the Argentine Republic. It will be illustrated 

 by over sixty folio plates, and deal chiefly with the Edentate Mammals. Mr. 

 Lydekker returned to England last month. 



