,3,, NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, ETC. 557 



In the August number of the American Niituralist there is an interesting account 

 of the success of the Biological Department of the Leland Stanford Junior Univer- 

 sity, California. The number of students has been much in excess of anticipation, 

 and the original equipment of the various laboratories proved far short of require- 

 ments. The new Marine Biological Station at Pacific Grove, Monterey Bay, is 

 named the Hopkins Seaside Laboratory, the general furnishing having been provided 

 by the liberality of Mr, Timothy Hopkins. The building was presented to the 

 University by the Pacific Improvement Company and the inhabitants of Pacific 

 Grove, and affords accommodation for about fifty students. Teachers and ordinary 

 students pay a small fee, but original investigators are admitted to the laboratory 

 free of charge. 



The first part of the Kansas University Quarterly, dated July, 1S92, has lately 

 been received. The journal will be devoted to the results of original scientific 

 researches undertaken by members of this Western University. The part to hand 

 contains an illustrated account of the Cretaceous Pterodactyles and Mosasaurs of 

 Kansas by Professor S. W. Williston, and some technical descriptions of insects. 



Dr. J. S. KiNGSLEY has been appointed Professor of Biology in Luffs College, 

 College Hill, Mass., U.S.A. 



Dr. Carl Berg has been appointed Director of the Museum of Buenos Ayres, 

 in succession to the late Dr. H. Burmeister. 



The latest publication of the Australian Museum, Sydney, is the second part of 

 Mr. John Brazier's " Catalogue of the Marine Shells of Australia and Tasmania," 

 comprising the Pteropoda. It is remarked that no moUusca of this class have yet 

 been discovered off Tasmania and South or West Australia. 



The American Museum of Natural Historj', New York, has lately acquired a 

 series of mammalian teeth from the Laramie Formation. We are pleased to learn 

 from the American Naturalist for August that the monopoly in collecting Laramie 

 fossils attempted to be held by certain officers of the U.S. Geological Survey, is now 

 to be destroyed. An expedition, under the direction of Dr. J. L. Wortman, will 

 shortly be despatched by the American Museum to the Laramie region, for the 

 collection of the Horned Dinosauria and associated fossils. 



The Annual Report of the Trustees of the South African Museum, Cape Town, 

 for 1891, has just reached England. In addition to their ordinary routine duties, 

 the Curator (Mr. Roland Trimen, F.R S.) and Assistant-Curator (Mr. L. Peringuey) 

 are occupied with important researches in South African Entomology. The speci- 

 mens acquired during the year are numerous and varied ; but much difficulty is 

 found in preserving the skins of the larger animals on account of insect pests, and 

 the Museum has had the misfortune to lose some valuable diamonds and nuggets by 

 theft. The extension of the premises, long contemplated, has hitherto been delayed 

 by the unfavourable condition of the revenue, and the prospect that the new 

 Museum might form part of the projected University Buildings. A further effort, 

 however, is being made to erect an independent institution at an early date. At the 

 end of the present year, the Museum will receive another important acquisition, in 

 the form of a plaster cast of the skeleton of the great extinct reptile, Pariasaiirus 

 baini, from the South African Karoo,, discovered by Professor H. G. Seeley, and 

 now in the British Museum. . This unique specimen was despatched last month by 

 the Trustees of the British Museum to the Kimberley Exhibition, where it will be 

 shown prior to its removal to Cape Town. 



