NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 

 SOCIETIES. 



The Committee formed under the presidency of the Marquis of Lome for the 

 restoration of the Library of the Toronto University have satisfactorily concluded 

 their labours. Having already despatched about 30,000 volumes, they have just 

 forwarded, as a last instalment, four additional cases, containing some 350 volumes 

 of Prussian scientific works, the gift of the German Emperor. 



Dr. James D. Dana has retired from the Professorship of Geology in Yale 

 University, which he has held since 1S55. He is succeeded by Professor H. S. 

 Williams, whose removal to Yale we noticed last month. Professor Dana is this 

 year the recipient of the Walker Prize of the Boston Society of Natural History. 



Professor C. H. Gilbert and his colleagues of the new Leland Stanford Junior 

 University, Palo Alto, California, propose to establish a Marine Biological Station 

 on the Pacific Coast, in the Bay of Monterey. It is hoped to open the laboratory 

 during the coming summer, and facilities will be given for work both by teachers of 

 Natural Science and by specialists engaged in original research. 



The Pennsylvanian University in Philadelphia will shortly be extended by the 

 addition of a new Museum of Human and Comparative Anatomy, with fully- 

 equipped laboratories for original research. The museum will contain the Wister 

 and Horner collection, and is the gift of General Wister, who also provides an 

 endowment fund for the curatorship. 



The University of Dublin will celebrate its Tercentenary from the 5th to the 

 8th of July. There will be a commemoration service in St. Patrick's Cathedral, a 

 reception and ball by the Lord Alayor, a banquet in the Leinster Hall, a dramatic 

 performance by graduates and undergraduates at the Gaiety Theatre, and other 

 festivities. The graduates of the University are marking the event by forming a 

 Union, for which a special building will be erected. Delegates have been invited 

 from the Universities and leading colleges of the world. Natural Science will be well 

 represented at the gathering. Professor T. G. Bonney, Dr. J. Burdon Sanderson, 

 Rev. W. H. Dallinger, Mr. Thiselton Dyer, Mr. John Evans, Dr. D. Ferrier, 

 Professor M. Foster, Sir A. Geikie, Professor V. Horsley, Professor J. W. Judd, 

 Professor E. Ray Lankester, Sir J. Lister, Sir J. Lubbock, Professor A. ?»Iacalister, 

 Sir L. F. McClintock, Professor H. A. Newton. Baron Nordenksjold, Sir J. Paget, 

 the Abbe Renard, and Professor H. Reusch are among those who have accepted 

 invitations to be present. Numerous honorary degrees will be conferred, and some 

 of the delegates will be asked to address the students. A movement is on foot to 

 petition the University to signalise its Tercentenary by granting degrees to women. 



The fiftieth anniversary of the Doctorate of Professor Albert von KoUiker has 

 just been commemorated by the issue of a special supplement to the fifty-third 



