NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 
SOCIETIES: 
ProFessor Dr. ANToNIO Borzi, of Messina, has been appointed ordinary 
Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanic Gardens at Palermo. 
Dr. Fausto Mort, hitherto extra-ordinary Professor of Botany in the 
University of Sassari, succeeds Professor F. Tornabene as extra-ordinary Professor 
of Botany in the University of Catania. 
PROFESSOR FRIEDR. OLTMANNS, Assistant at the Rostock Botanical Institute, 
has been appointed extra-ordinary Professor of Botany in the Philosophical Faculty 
at Freiburg-im-Breisgau. 
Tue Chair of Vulcanology at Catania, rendered vacant by the death of Pro- 
fessor Silvestri, has been abolished. We are glad to learn, however, that a new 
Chair has been founded in the University of Naples, to which Dr. H. J. Johnston 
Lavis has been appointed. 
Mr. W. R. Oaitvie Grant has been promoted to the rank of First-Class 
Assistant in the Zoological Department of the British Museum. He has just 
completed the manuscript of the volume of the Ornithological Catalogue relating 
to the Game Birds. 
In accordance with an Imperial decree, issued on February g, the city of 
Dorpat (cr Derpt) is henceforth to be known as Jurjeff. The name of one of the 
oldest and most renowned universities in Russia is thus changed. It is merely one 
more step towards the Russianising of the Baltic province. 
THE Botanical Gazette of January last informs us that the State University of 
Towa has sent Professor B. Shimek to Nicaragua ‘‘ to follow the route of the canal 
as near as practicable and make a general investigation. of the country, its general 
character (fertility, climate, &c.), its people, its geology, its flora (special attention 
being paid to the cryptogamic flora), and its fauna.’’ As the Professor is expected 
back in Iowa City with his collections ‘‘not later than April 1, 1893,’’ he must 
indeed be a rapid worker to render a satisfatory account in all these departments. 
THE new University of Chicago is making a grand start, and we heartily wish 
it success. The following is a list of the teaching staft, so far as geology is con- 
cerned: T. C. Chamberlin, Head Professor of Geology ; R. D. Salisbury, Professor 
of Geographic Geology ; J. P. Iddings, Associate Professor of Petrology; R. A. F. 
