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NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 

 SOCIETIES. 



The following appointments are announced : — 



Dr. J. Y. Mackay, Professor of Anatomy, to be Principal of University College, 

 Dundee ; Dmitri Klementz, to be Curator at the Museum of the Academy of 

 Sciences, St. Petersburg ; Dr. K. v. Buchka, to be Director of the Department of 

 Scientific Enquiry at the Sanitary Office in Berlin ; C. H. Townsend, to be Chief 

 of the Division of Fisheries, and Dr. H. M. Smith, chief of the Division of Scientific 

 Enquiry, U.S. Fish Commission. 



Dr. J. Ritchie, to be Lecturer in Pathology at Oxford ; Robert B. Yound, to be 

 Assistant Biologist in the U.S. Department of Agriculture; Dr. Jensen, to be 

 Privat-Docent in Physiology in the University of Halle ; Dr. Max Siegfried, to be 

 Professor-Extraordinarius of Physiology at Leipzig ; Dr. Fritz Noll, to be Professor 

 of Physiology at Heidelberg ; Dr. Wladislaw Szymonowicz, of Cracow, to be Pro- 

 fessor-Extraordinarius of Histology and Embryology at Lemberg ; Dr. Polydore 

 Francotte, to be Professor of Embryology at Brussels ; Dr. Ludwig Heim, to be 

 Professor-Extraordinarius of Bacteriology at Marburg ; W. B. Pillsbury, to be 

 Instructor of Experimental Psychology at Cornell University ; J. F. Crawford, to 

 be Demonstrator in Experimental Psychology at Princeton University ; Dr. 

 Simmara, to be Professor of Physiological Psychology in the Government School of 

 Science, Madrid. 



F. F. Blackman, to be Lecturer in Botany at Cambridge University ; Dr. E. 

 Fischer, to be Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Gardens at Berne; 

 Dr. Victor Folgner, to be Assistant at the Botanical Institute of the German 

 University, Prague ; Anton Heinz, to be Professor of Botany at Agram ; Dr. Noll 

 to be Professor of Botany at Bonn. 



Dr. Velain to be Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Paris ; 

 Dr. Mijat Kishpatitch to be Professor of Mineralogy at Agram ; Dr. Siedentopf, of 

 Gottingen, to be Assistant in Mineralogy at Greifswald University ; Dr. Beckenkamp, 

 of Mulhausen, to be Professor of Mineralogy at Wiirzburg ; Dr. E. A. Wiilfing, to 

 be Professor-Extraordinarius of Mineralogy at Tubingen ; J. H. Pratt, of Yale 

 University, to be Mineralogist to the N. Carolina Geological Survey ; C. H. Warren, 

 to be Instructor in Mineralogy in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University ; 

 Dragutin Gorjanovitch Kramberger, to be Professor of Geology and Palasontology at 

 Agram; Dr. F. Pompeckj, to be Curator of the Palseontological Collection in the 

 State Museum at Munich ; T. A. Rickard, mining engineer of Denver, to continue 

 as State Geologist of Colorado ; G. W. Stone, lawyer and politician, to be Mine 

 In.spector of Kentucky ; C. H. Crantz, steamboat agent, to be State Geologist of 

 Illinois and Curator of the State Museum. 



Nature for April 29 contains a statement made by the Duke of Devonshire, as 

 Chancellor of Cambridge University, to the effect that the University is by no means 

 the wealthy body it is often supposed to be. Agricultural depression continues to 

 reduce the income of the University, while many of the museums, laboratories, and 

 libraries, urgently demand extension, and new branches of study call in vain for 

 recognition. Such a sad state of affairs likewise obtains at Oxford ; and there is no 

 doubt that a time has arrived when those with money to spare may well consider 

 the re-endowment of our ancient seats of learning on a broader and firmer basis. 



Dr. Nansen has sent a cheque for £^0 to the Vice-Chancellor of the University 

 of Cambridge, asking to be allowed to make a contribution towards the teaching of 

 geography in the University. It is stated that Dr. Nansen is going to Australia to 

 give fifty lectures ; but it is not stated whether he intends to go via the South Pole. 



