NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, ANT) 

 SOCIETIES. 



Mr. Charles F. W. McClure, M.A., has succeeded Dr. Osborn as Professor 

 of Biology at Princeton College, New Jersey. 



The Rev. A. Irving, D.Sc , F.G.S., has resigned his appointment at Wellington 

 College, Berks, and removed to Hockerill, Bishop's Stortford, Herts. 



The late Professor Newberry's name is to live in a fund which the scientific 

 societies of New York have resolved to raise. It will be called the John Strong 

 Newberry fund, be not less than 25,000 dollars, and the income derived from it will 

 be devoted to the encouragement of scientific work in geology, palaeontology, botany, 

 and zoology. Professor N. L. Britton is secretary to the subscription committee. 



The Jersey Biological Station promises a quarterly publication together with 

 an issue of microscopical preparations of the rare and less known marine organisms. 

 The text will be descriptive of the slides issued, and will contain hints and notes on 

 microscopical manipulation, together with original observations upon Marine 

 Zoology. The subscription for the year, including fourteen slides, is 21s., and this 

 issue is limited to seventy-five copies. 



We regret to learn that, owing to the transfer of political power in the Illinois 

 legislature, Dr. Josua Lindahl has been dismissed from the post of State Geologist. 

 Dr. Lindahl's scientific attainments are well known ; he served as zoologist on the 

 " Porcupine " expedition, and the concluding volume of the Report of the Geological 

 Survey of Illinois showed that in him that State had secured an energetic, industrious, 

 and capable servant. 



We much regret to learn that the post honoured by the names of Amos 

 H. W'orthen and Josua Lindahl, has been handed over to a Mr. William F. E. Gurley 

 This gentleman is, we understand, a collector of fossils, and his name has once 

 appeared in so-called scientific literature as co-author of a paper with Mr. S. A. Miller, 

 of Cincinnati, O. One more step remains for the State of Illinois — to make Mr. 

 Miller State Palaeontologist ; and this step will doubtless be taken. 



The fine collection of fossils made by the late Professor A. H. Worthen, which 

 contains very many of the specimens figured and described in the Report of the 

 Geological Survey of Illinois, has at last been bought by that State. The specimens 

 are at present exhibited in the Illinois building at the W'orld's Fair. Each has a 

 register number, and, as a very complete sale-catalogue was published, 1 all future 

 visitors to the State Museum will easily be able to identify them 



1 Warsaw, 111., 1S89 ; sold in London by Win. Wesley & Son, price 6d. 



