NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 

 SOCIETIES. 



We learn that the Plymouth Marine Biological Station has lost the services of 

 Mr. Calderwood, who has resigned. 



Dr. Preuss, at the instance of the German Foreign Society, has gone to Victoria, 

 in the Cameroons, as director of the Botanical Gardens. (Bot. Centralblatt). 



Sir Henry Tichborne, who was attached to the Villiers Expedition for the 

 exploration of Lake Rudolph, has returned to England in order to fulfil his duties 

 as Sheriff. 



Dr. William King, Director of the Geological Surveyof India, has been granted 

 an extension of service to July, 1894, notwithstanding the working of the 55 years' 

 service rule. 



Dr. D. Riva who took part in Professor Schvveinfurth's last expedition to 

 Eritrea, has undertaken a journey of exploration in the Ginba River district. East 

 Africa. [Bot. Centralblatt.) 



The fourth Report of the Epsom College Natural History Society, for 1S92 

 has just appeared, and we see that the study of Natural Science is well appreciated 

 in the school. The field-notes relate principally to dates of first bloom of flowers, 

 Lepidoptera, first appearance of birds and dates of nesting, and meteorological 

 observations. 



Among the additions to the Herbarium of the Missouri Botanical Garden 

 during 1892, we find mention of about 3,000 duplicates from the Herbarium of the 

 late John Ball. The institution is also rejoicing in the donation by Dr. Sturtevant of 

 his entire botanical library, which, according to the Botanical Gazette, " is undoubtedly 

 the most complete and valuable American collection of pre-Linnaean botanical books." 



On Monday, 27th February, the " Malacological Society of London" was 

 founded, at a meeting held, by the kind permission of Mr. G. F. Harris, at 67 

 Chancery Lane. Mr. W. H. Hudleston took the chair, and the meeting elected Dr. 

 Henry Woodward as the first president, Messrs. Hudleston, Melville, Godwin- 

 Austen, and E. A. Smith as Vice-Presidents, Mr. E. R. Sykes as Secretary, Mr. 

 G. F. Harris as Treasurer, and the following as its first council : — H. W. Burrows, 

 J. H. Ponsonby, G. C. Crick. W. Crouch. Rev. A. M. Norman, B. B. Woodward 

 and G. B. Sowerby. 



