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in Tucson ; Prof. G. Perroncito, as director in the Royal Veterinary School of 

 Turin ; Dr. G. N. Pitt, of Guy's Hospital, as examiner in medicine at Cam- 

 bridge University ; Dr. Fritz Roemer, of Jena, as assistant in the zoological 

 department of the Museum fur Naturkunde, Berlin ; Dr. D. Saccardo, to assist 

 Prof. F. Morini in the botanical garden of Bologna University : W. G. Savage, 

 M.B., as assistant in the department of bacteriology at University of London ; 

 Dr. Fritz Schaudinn, as privat-docent for zoology in Berlin University ; Dr. 

 Schroeter, as privat-docent for botany in Bonn University ; Dr. L. S. Scbultze, 

 as assistant at the Zoological Institute of Jena University ; Dr. Carl Freiherr 

 von Tubeuf, of Munich, to be director of the botanical laboratory in the Bio- 

 logical Experiment Station for Agriculture and Forestry at Berlin ; J. A. Thom- 

 son, as additional examiner in zoology in the University of Glasgow ; Alexandra 

 Trotter, as assistant in the botanic garden of Padua ; Dr. R. Wagner, of Munich, 

 as assistant in the Institute for Vegetable Physiology at Heidelberg ; Dr. Karl 

 Wehmer, to be professor of mycology at the Technical College in Hannover ; 

 Dr. N. Wille, to be curator of the Museum and Herbarium of the University of 

 Christiania ; Jas. Withycome, to be assistant director and agriculturist of the 

 Oregon Experiment Station ; Dr. R. W. Zimmermann, to be professor-extra- 

 ordinarius of anatomy at Berne University ; Dr. Oskar Zoth, to be professor- 

 extraordinarius of physiology at Graz University. 



Among the New Year's honours we notice a baronetcy for the surgeon Sir 

 Sir Henry Thompson. Prof. W. C. Roberts Austen, of the Mint, is promoted to 

 be K.C.B., and Mr. Thiselton Dyer, the director of Kew Gardens, to be 

 K.C.M.G., in recognition of services rendered to Colonial Governments. Pure 

 science, it will be seen, meets with no recognition, yet see Natural Science, vol. 

 xiv. p. 1. 



Mr. William Christopher MacDonald, merchant, of Montreal, has received 

 the honour of knighthood in recognition of his gifts to educational and philan- 

 thropic objects in Canada. He is said to have given to M'Gill University 

 about 1,600,000 dollars in all. 



The Royal Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, has awarded its Linnaeus medal 

 to Mr. J. Stadling, in recognition of his journey through Siberia and a gift of 

 fish from that country. 



On occasion of the Jubilee of the St. Petersburg Academy of Medicine, the 

 following British scientists have been appointed honorary members of the 

 Academy : Sir William MacCormac, Sir William Turner, Lord Rayleigh, Sir 

 William Stokes, Drs. William Macewen, Thompson, and Branston. 



The Council of the Royal Institute of Public Health has awarded the 

 Harben Gold Medal for 1899 to Lord Lister, P.R.S., in recognition of his 

 eminent services to preventive medicine ; and it has appointed Professor 

 William R. Smith, M.D., D.Sc, as Harben Lecturer for the year 1899 ; he has 

 chosen "Diphtheria" as his subject. 



Sir John Lubbock has been elected a member of the Royal Society of 

 Science at Upsala. 



During the past year the total number of matriculated students attending 

 the University of Edinburgh was 2813, including 211 women. Of this number 

 817 (including 190 women) were enrolled in the Faculty of Arts, 147 (including 

 5 women) in the Faculty of Science, 63 in the Faculty of Divinity, 373 in the 

 Faculty of Law, 1387 (including 6 women) in the Faculty of Medicine, and 26 

 (including 10 women) in the Faculty of Music. Of the students of medicine, 

 584, or over 42 per cent, belonged to Scotland ; 374, or nearly 27 per cent, 

 were from England and Wales; 94 from Ireland, 60 from India, 231, or fully 

 16i per cent, from British Colonies; and 44 from foreign countries. 



