NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 

 SOCIETIES. 



Mr. J. Ward, of Derby, has been appointed Curator of the Cardiff Museum. 



Dr. Hermann von Ihering has been appointed Curator of the Zoological 

 Department of the San Paulo Museum, Brazil. 



Mr. Frederic V. Coville, of the Agricultural Department at Washington, 

 U.S., has been promoted to the directorship of the Botanical Division, which 

 recently became vacant through the death of Dr. Vasey. 



Professor H. Newell Martin has resigned the Chair of Biology in the 

 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, which he has held for seventeen years. 

 We regret to add that the Professor's ill-health has necessitated this course. 



Mr. John H. Cooke, B.Sc, Lecturer on Mathematics in the Maltese 

 University, has been appointed to lecture on Geology in the same institution. Mr. 

 Cooke will also have charge of the fossils and rock-specimens in the Museum of 

 the University, which have hitherto been much neglected. Fortunately, nearly all 

 the known Maltese fossils of importance are preserved in the British Museum. 



The University of Edinburgh has conferred the honorary degree of LL D. 

 upon Dr. Ramsay H. Traquair, F.R.S., the eminent ichthyologist. The University 

 of London has promoted Mr. J. W. Gregory, B.Sc, of the British Museum, to the 

 degree of D.Sc. 



There are several newly-appointed Professors of Botany. Mr. W. Bottomley 

 succeeds to the Professorship at King's College, London. Dr. N. Wille, of Aas, has 

 been appointed Professor in the University of Christiania and Director of the 

 Botanic Gardens. Dr. Ferdinand Pax, formerly Privat-docent in the University of 

 Breslau, has succeeded the late Professor Prantl as ordinary Professor and Director 

 of the Botanic Gardens in that University. Professor M. Mobius, of Heidelberg, 

 has been appointed Librarian and Teacher of Botany at the Senckenberg Institute 

 at Frankfort, in succession to the late Dr. Jannicke. Dr. H. Mayr is the new 

 ordinary Professor in the Forestry School at Munich. Mr. Percy Groom has been 

 appointed Demonstrator in the University of O.xford, and Dr. Dreyer, of St. Galle, 

 takes the place of Dr. A. Koch as Assistant in the Plant-Physiological Institute in 

 the University of Gottingen. At Gottingen, also, the position of Assistant in the 

 Botanical Museum and Garden, vacated by Dr. Hallier, is now filled by Dr. 

 Giessler, formerly Assistant in the Botanic Institute at the University of Jena. 

 Dr. Hallier, it may be added, has been appointed Assistant in the Botanic Garden 

 at Buitenzorg, in Java. 



