NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 
SO CIE iE: 
Mr. J. Warp, of Derby, has been appointed Curator of the Cardiff Museum. 
Dr. HERMANN VON IHERING has been appointed Curator of the Zoological 
Department of the San Paulo Museum, Brazil. 
Mr. FrepDERIC V. CoviLte, of the Agricultural Department at Washington, 
U.S., has been promoted to the directorship of the Botanical Division, which 
recently became vacant through the death of Dr. Vasey. 
ProFEessor H. NEwELL Martin has resigned the Chair of Biology in the 
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, which he has held for seventeen years. 
We regret to add that the Professor’s ill-health has necessitated this course. 
Mr. JoHn H. Cooke, B.Sc., Lecturer on Mathematics in the Maltese 
University, has been appointed to lecture on Geology in the same institution. Mr. 
Cooke will also have charge of the fossils and rock-specimens in the Museum of 
the University, which have hitherto been much neglected. Fortunately, nearly all 
the known Maltese fossils of importance are preserved in the British Museum. 
THE University of Edinburgh has conferred the honorary degree of LL.D. 
upon Dr. Ramsay H. Traquair, F.R.S., the eminent ichthyologist. The University 
of London has promoted Mr. J. W. Gregory, B.Sc., of the British Museum, to the 
degree of D.Sc. 
THERE are several newly-appointed Professors of Botany. Mr. W. Bottomley 
succeeds to the Professorship at King’s College, London. Dr. N. Wille, of Aas, has 
been appointed Professor in the University of Christiania and Director of the 
Botanic Gardens. Dr. Ferdinand Pax, formerly Privat-docent in the University of 
Breslau, has succeeded the late Professor Prantl as ordinary Professor and Director 
of the Botanic Gardens in that University. Professor M. Mobius, of Heidelberg, 
has been appointed Librarian and Teacher of Botany at the Senckenberg Institute 
at Frankfort, in succession to the late Dr. Jannicke. Dr. H. Mayr is the new 
ordinary Professor in the Forestry School at Munich. Mr. Percy Groom has been 
appointed Demonstrator in the University of Oxford, and Dr. Dreyer, of St. Galle, 
takes the place of Dr. A. Koch as Assistant in the Plant-Physiological Institute in 
the University of Géttingen. At Gdéttingen, also, the position of Assistant in the 
Botanical Museum and Garden, vacated by Dr. Hallier, is now filled by Dr. 
Giessler, formerly Assistant in the Botanic Institute at the University of Jena. 
Dr. Hallier, it may be added, has been appointed Assistant in the Botanic Garden 
at Buitenzorg, in Java. 
