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NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 

 SOCIETIES. 



The following appointments are announced : — Lord Reay, to be President of 

 University College, in the place of the late Sir John Erichsen ; L. E. Shore, to be 

 Lecturer in Physiology at Cambridge, in place of Dr. A. S. Lea, and A. Eichholz, to 

 be additional Demonstrator in Physiology ; Dr. Hugo de Vries, to be Director of the 

 Botanic Garden in Amsterdam, in place of Dr. Oudemans ; Dr. R. H. Saltet, to be 

 Professor of Hygiene at Amsterdam ; Dr. C. Julin, to be Professor of Anatomy at 

 Liege ; Dr. A. Moller, of Idstein, to be Lecturer on Botany in the Forestry Academy 

 at Eberswald ; Dr. J. Blaas, of Innsbruck University, to be Assistant Professor of 

 Geology and Palaeontology ; Dr. Karl Mobius, Professor of Zoology in Berlin 

 University, to succeed Professor Beyrich as Director of the Natural History 

 Museum there, and Dr. W. Dames, to be Director of the Geological Department ; 

 Dr. H. Traube, to be Professor of Mineralogy, and Dr. O. Seeliger, to be Professor 

 of Zoology, in Berlin Uni^'ersity ; Dr. K. Mez, to be Professor of Botany in Breslau 

 University ; Dr. Emil Schmidt, to be Professor of Anthropology in Leipzig 

 University; Professor S. L. Schenck, to be Professor of Embryology at Vienna; 

 Dr. T. Beer, to be Privatdocent in Comparative Anatomy at Vienna ; Drs. B. 

 Issatschenko and M. Grimm, of St. Petersburg University Botanical Laboratory, to 

 be Assistants in the State Laboratory of Agricultural Bacteriology ; Dr. Wladislaw 

 Rothert, to be extraordinary Professor of Botany at Kazan University; J. S. 

 Wright, to be Lecturer in Botany at Indiana Medical College; H. M. Richards, to 

 be Lecturer of Botany at Barnard College, New York City; E. V. Wilcox, of Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., to be Professor of Biology in Montana State College of Agriculture ; 

 Dr. Seitaro Goto, to be Professor of Botany in the First High School at Tokyo. 



Sir Joseph Lister and Professor Michael Foster have been elected honorary 

 members of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, in place of Huxley and Pasteur. 



Professor Albert Heim, geologist, of Zurich, has been elected a foreign 

 member of the Royal Society. 



Mr. Michel Levy has been elected a member of the Section of Mineralogy 

 of the Paris Academy of Sciences, in succession to the late G. A. Daubree. 



Professor O. Brefeld, the eminent fungologist, of Miinster, has been made 

 Geheim-Regierungs-Rath. 



Dr. Muller, Director of the Konigsberg Zoological Garden, has retired. Dr. 

 H. G. Hallier has resigned his position at the Buitenzorg Botanical Garden and is 

 returning to Germany. 



The Hay den Memorial Prize for 1896 has been awarded by the Philadelphia 

 Academy to Professor G, Capellini, of Bologna. 



A STATUE of Charles Darwin, presented by Professor Poulton, is to be erected 

 in the court of Oxford University Museum, which is also to be adorned by a bust of 

 Sir Henry Acland. 



A WING for scientific purposes is to be added to the buildings of Aberdeen 

 University at a cost of about /lo.ooo, which will be defrayed by the city in return 

 for land given by the University Court. 



