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NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 

 SOCIETIES. 



The following appointments are announced: — H. J. Mackinder, to be Reader 

 in Geography to the University of Oxford for a further period of five years ; 

 Dr. Lickfett, to be Director of the Hygienic Bacteriological Institute at Dantzig ; 

 Dr. Paul Eisler, to be Extraordinary Professor of Anatomy at Halle; Dr. M. 

 Westermeier, Professor of Botany in Freising, to hold the same position at Freiburg 

 University ; N. B. Zinger, to be Curator at the Botanical Garden at St. Vladimir's 

 University, Kiev ; Dr. Went, Director of the Experiment-Station in Java, to be 

 Professor of Botany in Utrecht University ; Professor F. Kohl, to the Chair of 

 Botany in Marburg University ; Dr. F. Kienitz-Gerloff, of Weilburg-on-Lahn, to 

 receive the title of Professor ; Dr. Thilenius, to be Privat-Docent in Anatomy at 

 Strassburg University ; Dr. G. Fatta, to be Assistant in Palermo Botanical Institute ; 

 J. H. Maiden, to be Government Botanist and Director of the Botanic Gardens at 

 Sydney, in succession to Charles Moore, who retires after nearly fifty years' service; 

 Dr. Arthur AUin, to be Professor of Psychology and Pedagogy in Ohio University, 

 Athens ; Dr. Charles H. Judd, to be Instructor in Psychology at Wesleyan University ; 

 Miss G. A. Smith, to be Assistant in Botany, and Miss L. D. Wallace, in Zoology, 

 at Smith College, U.S.A. ; A. A. Heller, to succeed F. P. Sheldon as Instructor in 

 Plant Taxonomy and as Curator of the Herbarium at the University of Minnesota. 

 L. Dippel, Professor of Botany in Darmstadt, has retired. 



L. J. PicTON, of Merton College, has been elected by Oxford University to the 

 Biological Scholarship at Naples for the year 1896-97. 



A BILL has been introduced into the House of Lords to transfer the right of 

 patronage to the chairs of natural history and of botany in Edinburgh University, 

 now exercised by the Crown, to the curators of patronage in the university. 



The Charing Cross Hospital Medical School has been enabled, by re-arrange- 

 ment of existing scholarships and the proceeds of a special fund, to found memorials 

 to Dr. Livingstone and Professor Huxley — both of them old students of the school. 

 The memorial to Livingstone takes the form of an entrance scholarship of 100 guineas 

 per annum ; that to Huxley, first, of an entrance scholarship of ;f 55, open to the 

 sons of medical men; second, a second year's prize in anatomy and physiology; and, 

 third, a lectureship dealing with recent advances in science and their bearing on 

 medicine and surgery. 



The German Universities are beginning to take some notice of women. At the 

 University of Berlin they are to be allowed to attend lectures after securing 

 permission from the Minister of Public Instruction and from the lecturer. At 

 Munich the great experiment is being tried of allowing a woman to attend courses 

 in geology and palaeontology. Gottingen, which apparently does not approve of the 

 mixing of the sexes, is arranging special courses for women in botany, physics, and 

 chemistry. 



On July I a new section of the U.S. Department of Agriculture was established 

 under the title of the Biological Survey. It is intended to furnish agriculturists, 

 horticulturists, and stock-breeders with charts showing the various areas in the 

 United States that are suitable for the cultivation or rearing of different species of 

 plants and animals. 



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