NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 

 SOCIETIES. 



Professor Dr. Antonio Borzi, of Messina, has been appointed ordinary 

 Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanic Gardens at Palermo. 



Dr. Fausto Mori, hitherto extra-ordinary Professor of Botany in the 

 University of Sassari, succeeds Professor F. Tornabene as e.xtra-ordinary Professor 

 of Botany in the University of Catania. 



Professor Friedr. Oltmanns, Assistant at the Rostock Botanical Institute, 

 has been appointed extra-ordinary Professor of Botany in the Philosophical Faculty 

 at Freiburg-im-Breisgau. 



The Chair of Vulcanology at Catania, rendered vacant by the death of Pro- 

 fessor Silvestri, has been abolished. We are glad to learn, however, that a new- 

 Chair has been founded in the University of Naples, to which Dr. H. J. Johnston 

 Lavis has been appointed. 



Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant has been promoted to the rank of First-Class 

 Assistant in the Zoological Department of the British Museum. He has just 

 completed the manuscript of the volume of the Ornithological Catalogue relating 

 to the Game Birds. 



In accordance with an Imperial decree, issued on February 9, the city of 

 Dorpat (or Derpt) is henceforth to be known as Jurjeff. The name of one of the 

 oldest and most renowned universities in Russia is thus changed. It is merely one 

 more step towards the Russianising of the Baltic province. 



The Botanical Gazette of January last informs us that the State University of 

 Iowa has sent Professor B. Shimek to Nicaragua " to follow the route of the canal 

 as near as practicable and make a general investigation, of the country, its general 

 character (fertility, climate, &c.), its people, its geology, its flora (special attention 

 being paid to the cryptogamic flora), and its fauna." As the Professor is expected 

 back in Iowa City with his collections " not later than April i, 1893," he must 

 indeed be a rapid worker to render a satisfatory account in all these departments. 



The new University of Chicago is making a grand start, and we heartily wish 

 it success. The following is a list of the teaching staft, so far as geology is con- 

 cerned : T. C. Chamberlin, Head Professor of Geology; R. D. Salisbury, Professor 

 of Geographic Geology ; J. P. Iddings, Associate Professor of Petrology; R. A. F. 



