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NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 

 SOCIETIES. 



We note among recent appointments: — J. H. Ashworth, to be Lecturer in 

 Zoology at Owens College ; Dr. P. Vuillemin, to be Professor of Botany at Nancy ; 

 Dr. Dannenberg, to be Privat-docent for Mineralogy and Geology in the Technical 

 School at Aix-la-Chapelle ; Dr. G. Karsten, of Leipzig, to be Privat-docent in 

 Botany in Kiel University ; Dr. O. L. zur Strassen, to be Privat-docent in Zoology 

 at Leipzig University ; Dr. E. Albrecht, to be Assistant in Anatomy in Munich 

 University ; Dr. H. Enders, of Breslau, to be Professor of Anatomy in the 

 University of Halle ; Professor A. Zimmermann, of Tiibingen, to be Privat-docent 

 of Botany in Berlin University ; Dr. K. Busz, of Marburg, to be Professor of 

 Mineralogy; Professor R. Semon, of Jena University, to be Prosector for 

 Comparative Anatomy, Histology and Embryology; J. Briquet, to be Director of 

 the Delessart Herbarium in Geneva ; Dr. H. Baumhauer, of Liidingshausen, to be 

 Professor of Mineralogy in Friburg, Switzerland; W. W. Rowlee, Instructor in 

 Botany in Cornel! University, to be Professor ; Dr. George A. Dorsey, of the 

 Peabody Museum, to be Curator in the department of Anthropology at the Field 

 Columbian Museum, Chicago, his place being taken by Frank Russell ; Harry 

 Landes, Professor of Geology in the State University of Washington, to be State 

 Geologist ; Dr. E. B. Sangree, to be Professor of Pathology and Bacteriology in the 

 Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.; Dr. N. L. Britton, to be Director of the 

 New York Botanical Gardens, being succeeded as Professor of Botany at Columbia 

 University by Professor L. M. Underwojd ; Dr. Frank Boas, to be Lecturer on 

 Physical Anthropology in Columbia University. 



Mr. Clements R. Markham, President of the Royal Geographical Society, 

 has been raised to the dignity of K.C.B. 



Sir Archibald Geikie was one of those made an honorary D.C.L. of Oxford at 

 the Encoenia on June 24. The Buda-Pesth University has conferred honorary 

 degrees on Mr. Herbert Spencer, Sir Joseph Lister, Lord Kelvin, Professor Pierre 

 Berthelot, Dr. W. Roux, Mr. J. S. Billings, and Professor R. Virchow. Durham 

 University has conferred the honorary MA. degree on Mr. Richard Howse, Curator 

 of the Newcastle Museum, and that of D.C.L. on Dr. Dallinger, F.R.S. 



The Rolleston Memorial Prize of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge has 

 been awarded to Mr. H. M. Vernon, B.A , of Merton College, Oxford. 



Mr. J. C. Willis, late Frank Smart Student of Cains College, Cambridge, has 

 been appointed Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens of Ceylon. The value of the 

 Frank Smart Studentship, hitherto £c,o a year, is immediately to be raised to /loo 

 a year by the original founders, Mr. and Mrs. Smart, of Tunbridge Wells, as a 

 testimony of their satisfaction at the results of their endowment. 



We regret to learn that Professor F. Jeffrey Bell has found it necessary to resign 

 the Chair of Comparative Anatomy and Zoology in King's College, London, in 

 consequence of the effects of influenza. We are informed that no successor will be 

 appointed at present, but that the post will remain vacant, its duties being under- 

 taken by other members of the staff. 



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