NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 

 SOCIETIES. 



Professor F. W. Hutton, F.R.S.has been appointed curator of the Canterbury 

 Museum, New Zealand, and Lecturer on Geology in the University College. 



Mr. Walcot Gibson has been appointed an assistant geologist on the Geological 

 Survey of Great Britain. He received his geological training under Professor 

 Lapworth, and has since travelled in the regions of the Transvaal and Uganda. An 

 important paper on the gold-bearing and associated rocks of the Southern Transvaal 

 was communicated by Mr. Gibson to the Geological Society of London in 1892. 



It is proposed to establish an Agricultural College for Kent and Surrey, under 

 the name of the " South-Eastern Agricultural School and College." A scheme for 

 the conversion of Wye College to this purpose has been submitted by the Charity 

 Commissioners to the Committee of Council on Education. 



The Colleges of Aberystwith, Cardiff, and Bangor are just completing the 

 preparation of a draft charter for the proposed degree-conferring University for Wales. 

 This was discussed at a conference at Shrewsbury on January 6, but it does not 

 apparently meet with much favour among those best acquainted with the require- 

 ments of higher education in the Principality. While nominally founding only one 

 University, some fear that it will raise each of the three constituent colleges indepen- 

 dently to that rank. 



The Council of the British Institute of Preventive Medicine is appealing for 

 donations towards the cost of erection of a suitable building. The circular is signed 

 by Sir Joseph Lister (Chairman), Sir Henry Roscoe (Hon. Treasurer), and Dr. 

 Armand Ruffer (Hon. Secretary), and is accompanied by a long list of donations 

 already received. The sum of ;^20,ooo has been promised to the funds of the 

 Institute by the trustees of the late Mr. Richard Berridge, on condition that a 

 further sum of ^40,000 is raised for land and buildings. 



Under the presidency of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, a committee has been 

 formed to arrange for a suitable memorial of the late Sir Richard Owen. Sir 

 James Paget, Sir William Flower, and Mr. W. Percy Sladen (Secretary, Linnean 

 Society) have consented to act respectively as Vice-Chairman, Treasurer, and 

 Secretary. A meeting was held in the rooms of the Royal Society of London, 

 Burlington House, on January 21, when the first list of subscriptions was read, and 

 it was resolved to place a full-length marble statue of the late Superintendent of the 

 Natural History Departments of the British Museum in the hall of the Museum at 

 South Kensington. 



At the meeting of the Bristol Town Council on January 2, the gift of the 

 Bristol Museum and Library was duly accepted on behalf of the citizens. The 

 resolution was carried unanimously amid much enthusiasm. 



