NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 

 SOCIETIES. 



Dr. Karl von Dalla Torre has been appointed Extraordinary Professor of 

 Botany at the University of Innsbruck. 



Dr. A. Grob has been appointed assistant in the Plant Physiological Institute 

 of the Polytechnic at Zurich. 



Dr. Achille Terracciano has retired from his position as Conservator of 

 the Royal Botanical Institute at Rome, and Dr. Oswald Kruch has taken his place. 



Professor P. Soraner resigned, on October ist, the superintendence of the 

 plant physiological research station at Proskan, and Dr. Rudolf Aderhold, formerly 

 first assistant in the similar institute at Geisenheim, has been appointed in his stead, 

 while Dr. F. Kriiger takes Dr. Aderhold's place. 



The Professorship of Geology in the Bohemian University of Prague has been 

 filled by the election of Dr. Woldrich, of Vienna. 



Professor Charles Stewart, of the Royal College of Surgeons, has been 

 elected Fullerian Professor of Physiology at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. 



The Owen Memorial Committee has entrusted the execution of the statue of 

 the late Sir Richard Owen to Mr. T. Brock, R.A. 



Dr. T. Pleske has succeeded the late Dr. Strauch as Director of the Natural 

 History Museum of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. 



It is proposed to establish a small Biological Station at Millport, for the study 

 of the Marine Zoology of the Firth of Clyde and West of Scotland generally. A 

 temporary station has already existed for some years at the same place, and during 

 1891-92 the Government Grants' Committee of the Royal Society oi London pro- 

 vided ^100 for the investigation of the Clyde Sea area. Much valuable work can 

 be done in the district, and contributions to the building-fund of the station are 

 earnestly solicited by the Committee, who have just issued a circular on the subject. 

 The treasurer of the fund is Robert Gourlay, Esq., Bank of Scotland. 



On November 8, the Mayor of Carlisle opened a new Institute of Science, Art, 

 and Literature, built by the town corporation at a cost of /2o,ooo. The Museum 

 contains a large collection of local rocks and fossils, antiquities, and birds, besides 

 other natural history specimens. 



The Year-Book of the Bergen Museum for 1892 has just come to hand. In it 

 Dr. J. Brunchorst gives, in German, an account of the biological station in Bergen, 



