NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 

 SOCIETIES. 



Dr. G. von Lagerhei.m, late Director of the Botanic Garden of Quito, has 

 been appointed Curator of the Tromso Museum, Norway. 



Messrs. W. T. Swingle and W. J. Webber have been appointed to direct 

 the newly-founded " Station for Citrous Diseases " at Eustis, Florida. 



Mr. E. W. MacBride, M.A., has been appointed Demonstrator in Animal 

 Morphology in the University of Cambridge. 



Dr C. S. Minot has been appointed Professor of Histology and Embryology 

 in Harvard Medical College; and Dr. Harris H. Wilder has been elected to the 

 Chair of Biology in Smith College, Northampton, Mass. 



Mr. Joseph E. Carne, late Curator of the Mining and Geological Museum, 

 Sydney, has been appointed a Geological Surveyor in the Department of Mines, 

 New South Wales. 



Mr. Edgar R. Waite, for some years Curator of the Leeds Philosophical 

 Society's Museum, and joint editor of The Naturalist, has been appointed assistant- 

 curator of the Australian Museum, Sydney. Mr. Waite leaves England early in 

 February. 



Dr. F. Elfving has been appointed Professor of Botany in the University of 

 Helsingfors, Finland ; and Professor W. R. Dudley has left Cornell University for 

 the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, California. Mr. G. F. Atkinson 

 now becomes Assistant Professor of Cryptogamic Botany at Cornell. 



Mr. Francis Darwin, Reader in Botany at the University of Cambridge, has 

 been appointed Deputy-Professor of Botany, owing to the ill-health of Professor 

 Babington. Professor Babington has held the post for more than thirty years, and 

 for some time past has taken no active part in the management of the School of 

 Botany, which was so well worked up by Dr. Vines, now Professor at Oxford. Mr. 

 Francis Darwin is well known, both from association with his father in much of 

 the great naturalist's botanical work, especially the " Movement of Plants," and from 

 his own researches in the physiology and biology of plants. 



The foundation stone of an extension of the buildings of the Durham College of 

 Science, Newcastle-on-Tyne, was laid by the Earl of Durham last month. 



