NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 
SOCIETIES: 
Proressor 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. Wa ccot Gipson 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 Edueation. 
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. 
Tue Councit 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 £20,000 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. 
