NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 



SOCIETIES. 



Dr. a. Baldacci, of Bologna, has returned from a botanical tour in Crete. 



Dr. a. Terracciano has resigned his post as Conservator at the Royal Botanic 

 Institute at Rome ; Dr. O. Kruen has been appointed to fill the vacancy. 



The prize of 1,000 fi. instituted in honour of Dr. T. Mayer has been awarded 

 by the Academy of Sciences in Cracow to Dr. M. Raciborsl<i for his work on the 

 fossil flora of Polland. 



The following awards have been made among French botanists: M. Gaston 

 Bonnier tobe "Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur," M. Leclere Savlon to be " Officier 

 del'Instruction publique," and M. L. Planchon to be " Ofhcier d' Academic." 



Professor E. D. Cope has been appointed to the Professorship of Comparative 

 Anatomy and Zoology in the University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. A. P. Brown 

 succeeds him in that of Geology and Mineralogy. 



Mr. E. a. Minchin, B.A., Radcliffe Fellow of the University of Oxford, has 

 been elected to a Fellowship in Biology at Merton College. Mr. Minchin's original 

 work has hitherto lain chiefly among sponges and echinoderms; he has been 

 engaged of late on an English translation of Professor O. Biitschli's monograph on 

 the foam-structure of protoplasm, which has just been issued by the Clarendon 

 Press. We understand that Mr. Minchin will reside in Oxford, continuing his 

 researches, and giving lectures. 



Mr. Arthur Willey, B.Sc, now lecturing in Columbia College, New York, 

 has been elected by the special board for biology and geology of Cambridge 

 University to the Balfour Studentship. The iirst award of the Walsingham medal, 

 founded by the Lord High Steward for the encouragement of biological research, 

 has been made to Mr. E. W. MacBride, who is well known by his work on Echino- 

 derm embryology. Mr. Willey is being sent to New Ireland to investigate the 

 early development of Nautilus pompilius. Could not Mr. MacBride be directed to 

 start for Jamaica or Japan to study the embryonic and larval stages of Pentacrinus ? 



We have received No. 2 of the Kansas University Quarterly, which contains two 

 entomological and two palaeontological papers, and an account of some experiments 

 on the delicacy of the sense of taste among Indians. The most important of these 

 contributions are Dr. Kellogg's description of the head of a butterfly {Danais arcltippus), 

 and Professor Williston's brief illustrated notes on the skeleton of Pterodactyls and 

 a Mosasaur from the Chalk of Kansas. 



