NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 

 SOCIETIES. 



Mr. John Storrie has resigned the Curatorship of the Cardiff Museum. 



Dr. Jordan has arrived at Tring from Hildesheim, and will take charge of the 

 Entomological collections belonging to the Hon. Walter Rothschild. 



Mr. George Massee has been appointed to succeed Dr. M. C. Cooke in the 

 Kew Herbarium. The second volume of his British Fungus Flora, dealing with 

 Agaricineae, has appeared. 



Mr. F. a. Bather, of the British Museum of Natural History, has obtained 

 special leave of absence on account of a weakness of his eyesight. Mr. Bather will 

 spend the greater part of four months on the sea and will visit Teneriffe, Cape Town, 

 Hobart Town, Sydney, Japan, San Francisco, Budington, and New York. He left 

 on March 30. 



Mr. a. S:mith Woodward is on his way back from the Lebanon, where he had 

 gone to study the important deposits of fossil fish of Cretaceous age. 



The funds of the McGill University have been increased in the sum of 160,000 

 dols., the gift of Mr. Molson and Mr Donald Smith. 



The syllabus of work for the " Edinburgh Summer Meeting " for the seventh 

 Session, July 31 — August 26, 1893, '^^s just been issued. The business of Section 

 C (Natural Science) consists of ten lectures on Comparative Psychology, by 

 Professor Lloyd Morgan ; Hygiene, ten lectures by Dr. Louis Irvine ; Biology, 

 twenty lectures by J. Arthur Thomsom and Norman Wyld ; Practical Botany 

 (including Field Work), twenty meetings, Robert Turnbull ; Field Geology, ten 

 excursions directed by Norman Wyld ; Practical Zoology (at Granton Marine 

 Station), twenty meetings, J. Arthur Thomson ; Regional Survey of Edinburgh and 

 neighbourhood, twelve lectures. 



There will also be delivered twenty lectures on Contemporary Social Evolu- 

 tion by Professor Geddes, and many other courses on various branches of 

 Education, such as History, Social Science, Music, Elocution, &c. Particulars can 

 be obtained by application to J. Arthur Thomson, M.A., University Hall, 

 Edinburgh. 



