NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 
SUC EITES. 
Dr. G. von LAGERHEIM, late Director of the Botanic Garden of Quito, has 
been appointed Curator of the Tromsé Museum, Norway. 
Messrs. W. T. SWINGLE and W. J. WeBBER have been appointed to direct 
the newly-founded ‘‘ Station for Citrous Diseases '’ at Eustis, Florida. 
Mr. E. W. MacBrive, M.A., has been appointed Demonstrator in Animal 
Morphology in the University of Cambridge. 
Dr. C. S. Minot has been appointed Professor of Histology and Embryology 
in Harvard Medical College; and Dr. Harris H. Wilder has been elected to the 
Chair of Biology in Smith College, Northampton, Mass. 
Mr. JosePH E. Carne, late Curator of the Mining and Geological Museum, 
Sydney, has been appointed a Geological Surveyor in the Department of Mines, 
New South Wales. 
Mr. EpGar R. Waite, for some years Curator of the Leeds Philosophical 
Society’s Museum, and joint editor of The Naturalist, has been appointed assistant- 
curator of the Australian Museum, Sydney. Mr. Waite leaves England early in 
February. 
Dr. F. Etrvine has been appointed Professor of Botany in the University of 
Helsingfors, Finland; and Professor W. R. Dudley has left Cornell University for 
the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, California. Mr. G. F. Atkinson 
now becomes Assistant Professor of Cryptogamic Botany at Cornell. 
Mr. Francis Darwin, Reader in Botany at the University of Cambridge, has 
been appointed Deputy-Professor of Botany, owing to the ill-health of Professor 
Babington. Professor Babington has held the post for more than thirty years, and 
for some time past has taken no active part in the management of the School of 
Botany, which was so well worked up by Dr. Vines, now Professor at Oxford. Mr. 
Francis Darwin is well known, both from association with his father in much of 
the great naturalist’s botanical work, especially the ‘‘ Movement of Plants,’ and from 
his own researches in the physiology and biology of plants. 
Tue foundation stone of an extension of the buildings of the Durham College of 
Science, Newcastle-on-Tyne, was laid by the Earl of Durham last month. 
