NKWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS. AND 

 SOCIETIES. 



We have received the prospectus of "A Summer School of Art and Science," 

 detailing the arrangements for the sixth annual meeting of the " Edinburgh 

 Vacation Courses." The lectures and excursions, which are to be conducted by 

 Professor Geddes, Mr. Arthur Thomson, Professor Mavor, and others, extend from 

 August I to August 31. Among those who will lecture upon Biological subjects 

 are, besides the above-mentioned gentlemen. Professor Lloyd Morgan, Professor 

 Haddon, Dr. Haycraft, and possibly Professor Haeckel and M. de Varigny. These 

 courses of lectures correspond to those held at Oxford and Cambridge by University 

 Extension Societies ; and as the meeting of the British Association will take place at 

 Edinburgh during the same month, it is probable that a good many persons will be 

 induced to extend their visit so as to attend the entire series. A modest fee of three 

 guineas covers the lecturers' fees, and arrangements are made to board intending 

 students at a moderate cost. Applications should be made to J. Arthur Thomson, 

 Esq., University Hall, Edinburgh. 



Dr. D. H. Scott shortly resigns his position as Assistant-Professor of Botany 

 at the Royal College of Science, having undertaken the charge of the Jodrell 

 Laboratory at Kew. Some good work in anatomy or morphology will doubtless 

 result from this release from the trammels of teaching. 



The name of M. Vasseur is placed first on the list of candidates nominated by 

 the Academy of Sciences for the vacant Professorship of Geology at the Paris 

 Museum of Natural History. 



We hear that Professor H. S. Williams, of Cornell University, N.Y., has 

 accepted a Professorship at Yale, where he acted for several years as assistant to 

 Professor Marsh. 



Dr. Heincke, a well-known authority on fishery matters, has been appointed 

 director of the newly-established Imperial German Zoological Station at 

 Heligoland. 



Dr. Hugh Robert Mill has been appointed Librarian to the Royal 

 Geographical Society, in succession to Mr. Scott Keltie, who is now 

 Assistant-Secretary. Dr. Mill has made important contributions to Physical 

 Geography. 



