NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 
SOCHET IES: 
Mr. JOHN STorRIE has resigned the Curatorship of the Cardiff Museum. 
Dr. Jorpan has arrived at Tring from Hildesheim, and will take charge of the 
Entomological collections belonging to the Hon. Walter Rothschild. 
Mr. GeorGE MassEeE has been appointed to succeed Dr. M. C. Cooke in the 
Kew Herbarium. The second volume of his British Fungus Flova, dealing with 
Agaricinez, 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, Burlington, and New York. He left 
on March 30. 
Mr. A. SMITH Woopwarp is on his way back from the Lebanon, where he had 
gone to study the important deposits of fossil fish of Cretaceous age. 
Tue funds of the McGill University have been increased in the sum of 160,000 
dols., the gift of Mr. Molson and Mr. Donald Smith. 
TuE syllabus of work for the ‘‘ Edinburgh Summer Meeting ”’ for the seventh 
Session, July 31—August 26, 1893, has 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. 
