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NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 

 SOCIETIES. 



The following appointments are announced : — Professor Allbutt, to the Downing 

 Professorship of Pharmacology, in Cambridge; J. C. Willis, Botanical Assistant in 

 Glasgow University, to be Director of the Ceylon Botanical Gardens ; Charles 

 Elcock, to be Curator of the Art Gallery and Museum at the Free Public Library in 

 Belfast, in place of J. F. Johnson, mysteriously disappeared ; Mr. Stanley Flower, 

 son of the Director of the British Museum (Natural History), to be Curator of the 

 King of Siam's Museum at Bangkok ; Dr. C. Winkler, to be Professor of Nervous 

 and Mental Diseases at Amsterdam; Dr. E. Lesser, to be Extraordinary Professor 

 of Dermatology at Berlin ; Dr. Chermak, to the Chair of Comparative Anatomy and 

 Embryology at Jurieff (Dorpat) ; Dr. Andreas Obezut, to be Professor of Anatomy, 

 and Dr. Prus, to be Professor of Pathology, at Lemberg ; Dr. Graff, to be Assistant 

 Professor of Mineralogy and Petrography in Freiburg University, Breslau; Dr. A. V. 

 Fomin, to be Assistant at the Botanical Garden of Dorpat University ; Dr. L. 

 Montemartini and Dr. G. Pollacci to be Assistants, and Dr. F. Tognini to be Curator, 

 at Pavia University Botanical Gardens ; T. S. Hart, of Victoria, to be Lecturer on 

 Geology and Botany at the Ballarat School of Mines ; F. B. Loomis, to be Assistant 

 in Biology at Amherst College, U.S.A.; Miss A. M. Claypole, to be Instructor in 

 Zoology, and Miss J. Evans, in Botany, at Wellesley College, U.S.A. ; R. E. Dodge, 

 to be Associate Professor of Natural Science at the Teacher's College, New York ; 

 T. A.Williams, Professor of Botany in South Dakota, to be Assistant in the Division 

 of Cereals, U.S. Dept. Agriculture; Miss Parker, of Alabama, to be Professor of 

 Natural Sciences in the Georgia Industrial College at Milledgeville, U.S.A. ; Dr. 

 C. Hart Merriam, to be head of the newly-established Biological Survey of the 

 Department of Agriculture, U.S.A. ; C. P. Nott, of the Brown University, to be 

 Assistant in Botany in California University ; Dr. Ludwig Reh, of Sao Paolo, Brazil, 

 to be Permanent Assistant to the Concilium Bibliographicum, Zurich. 



Mr. William Whitaker retires from the Geological Survey on October 22. 

 Mr. Whitaker, who is senior officer, was appointed on April i, 1857, and has there- 

 fore held service for nearly forty years. The good wishes of all geologists go with 

 him in his retirement. His address is now " Freda, Campden Road, Croydon." 



Mr. W. W. Watts, of H.M. Geological Survey, is not, as many of his friends 

 have supposed, the W. W. Watts who has been appointed Chief of the Circulation 

 Department at the South Kensington Museum. 



The 70th birthday of Professor Bastian, of the Imperial University and 

 Ethnological Museum in Berlin, was the occasion for the presentation of his bust to 

 the latter institution. A memorial volume containing thirty-two papers by leading 

 German anthropologists, such as Dr. Boas, Dr. Seler, and Professor Ehrerireich, 

 was presented to him. 



The establishment at Palermo of an International Botanical Station, under 

 Professor Borzi, is proposed, and the co-operation of botanists is asked. 



