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NEWS 



The following appointments are announced : — G. C, Bourne, of New College, 

 Oxford, to be lecturer in comparative anatomy in Oxford University ; Dr Pio 

 Mingazzini to be professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at Catania ; 

 Francesco Saverio Monticelli, as professor of zoology in tlie University of Naples ; 

 Dr Karl Hiirthle, of Breslau, to be professor of physiology and director of the 

 Physiological Institute of that University in succession to the late R. P. Heiden- 

 hain ; William S. Carter to be professor of physiology in the University of 

 Texas ; Dr Gregor Kraus to be professor of botany in the University of Wiirz- 

 burg ; Prof. Eugen Askenasy to be hon. professor of botany at Heidelberg ; 

 Dr Magueene to be professor of plant-j^hysiology at the College de France ; Dr 

 Liistner, of Jena, to be assistant at the experimental station for plant-physi- 

 ology in Geisenheim ; Lewis V. Pirsson to be professor of physical geology in 

 Harvard University ; Baron von Firks, of Mitau, to be assistant in geology in 

 the Bergakademie of Freiburg i. S. 



Dr John Murray has been elected a corresponding member of the Russian 

 Geograj)hical Society. 



Miss A. Mallet has presented to the Geological Laboratory of King's College, 

 London, a collection of minerals and recent shells. 



Owing to the illness of his infant son, Dr Nansen was obliged to cancel his 

 lecture engagements and return hurriedly to Christiana. 



Under the will of Mr J. H. Harris, of "Wagnesville, Ohio, the U.S. National 

 Museum has received his collection of Ordovician fossils and of antiquities from 

 that locality. 



On March 17th, Prof. Boyd Dawkins delivered, the 'James Forest' Lecture 

 the Institute of Civil Engineers, speaking on " Geology in relation to 

 Engineering." 



After two years' exertion the Hornsey District Council has at last made 

 arrangements to complete the purchase of churchyard, Bottomwood, for the 

 sum of £25,000. 



The Dublin Naturalists' Field Club, at a recent meeting, adopted a resolution 

 urging the Boards of Primary and Intermediate Instruction to introduce natural 

 science in Irish schools. 



Mr C. W. Andrews, whose stay in Christmas Island, S. Java, is extended for 

 the requirements of his researches, has forwarded five more cases of specimens of 

 natural history objects to the British Museum. 



The Lectureship in Geography at the University of Cambridge supported by 

 the Royal Geographical Society has now been made a readership, with a total 

 stipend of £200 a year. The Reader is Mr H. Y. Oldham. 



The fifth International Congress of Hydrology, Climatology, and Geology, 

 will be held at Liege this year, from September 25 to October 1, under the 

 patronage of His Royal Highness Prince Albert of Belgium. 



