NEWS: OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 
SOCIEAIES: 
We learn that the Plymouth Marine Biological Station has lost the services of 
Mr. Calderwood, who has resigned. 
Dr. Preuss, at the instance of the German Foreign Society, has gone to Victoria, 
in the Cameroons, as director of the Botanical Gardens. (Bot. Centraibiatt). 
Str Henry TIcHBoRNE, who was attached to the Villiers Expedition for the 
exploration of Lake Rudolph, has returned to England in order to fulfil his duties 
as Sheriff. 
Dr. WituiaM Kina, Director of the Geological Survey of India, has been granted 
an extension of service to July, 1894, notwithstanding the working of the 55 years’ 
service rule. 
Dr. D. Riva who took part in Professor Schweinfurth’s last expediticn to 
Eritrea, has undertaken a journey of exploration in the Ginba River district, East 
Africa. (Bot. Centralblatt.) 
Tue fourth Report of the Epsom College Natural History Society, for 1892 
has just appeared, and we see that the study of Natural Science is well appreciated 
in the school. The field-notes relate principally to dates of first bloom of flowers, 
Lepidoptera, first appearance of birds and dates of nesting, and meteorological 
observations. 
AmonG the additions to the Herbarium of the Missouri Botanical Garden 
during 1892, we find mention of about 3,000 duplicates from the Herbarium of the 
late John Ball. The institution is also rejoicing in the donation by Dr. Sturtevant of 
his entire botanical library, which, according to the Botanical Gazette, ‘‘ is undoubtedly 
the most complete and valuable American collection of pre-Linnzean botanical books.”’ 
On Monday, 27th February, the ‘‘ Malacological Society of London’’ was 
founded, at a meeting held, by the kind permission of Mr. G. F. Harris, at 67 
Chancery Lane. Mr. W. H. Hudleston took the chair, and the meeting elected Dr. 
Henry Woodward as the first president, Messrs. Hudleston, Melville, Godwin- 
Austen, and E. A. Smith as Vice-Presidents, Mr. E. R. Sykes as Secretary, Mr. 
G. F. Harris as Treasurer, and the following as its first council: —H. W. Burrows, 
J. H. Ponsonby, G. C. Crick, W. Crouch, Rev. A. M. Norman, B. B. W oodward 
and G. B. Sowerby. 
