NEWS. 



The following appointments have recently been made : — Dr. R. T. Anderson, 

 as instructor in histology and embryology in Harvard Medical School ; Dr. 

 Erich von Drygalski, as professor of geography at Tubingen ; Dr. H. Held, as 

 professor extraordinarily of anatomy at Leipzig ; Dr. A. Y. Grevillius, to be 

 assistant in botany in the Agricultural Experiment Station at Kempen on 

 Rhine ; A. W. Hill, as demonstrator of botany in Cambridge ; Wladimir J. 

 Palladin, as professor of botany in the newly established technical school in 

 Warsaw ; Prof. Fritz Regel of Jena, as professor of geography at Wiirzburg ; 

 Prof. W. F. R. Weldon, as Linacre professor of comparative anatomy at 

 Oxford, in succession to Prof. E. Ray Lankester. 



The resignations are announced of Dr. G. K. Niemann, professor of 

 geography and ethnology in the Indian Institute at Delft, Holland, and of 

 F. W. C. Areschoug, professor of botany in the University of Lund, Sweden. 



Prof. Sir William Turner has been elected president of the British Associa- 

 tion for the Bradford meeting. 



Prof. E. Ray Lankester has been elected a correspondent of the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences, and an associate of the Belgian Academy of Sciences. 



The degree of LL.D. has been conferred by Aberdeen University on Mr. Chas. 

 Stewart, F.R.S., curator of the Museum of Royal College of Surgeons, England ; 

 and on Mr. Geo. F. Stout, lately lecturer on comparative psychology at Aberdeen. 



The degree of M.A. honoris causa has been conferred by the University of 

 Cambridge on Dr. G. Sims Wooclhead, the new professor of pathology. 



Dr. Helmert, professor of geodesy in Berlin, has been elected a correspond- 

 ing member of the Paris Academy of Sciences in the section of geography and 

 navigation. 



The statue of Helmholtz by Herter is completed, and will be placed in front 

 of the University of Berlin, between those of the Humboldts. 



The late Prof. W. Rutherford has left to Edinburgh University his valuable 

 medical library and his collections of microscopical specimens and diagrams. 



The annual statistical report of Glasgow University for 1898 shows a total 

 of 1836 students, of whom 261 were women. The number in the faculty of 

 Science was 117, as against 673 for Medicine, 762 for Arts. 



The Scientific American records that the Indian Government has been 

 offered by Mr. Jamestsji Tata the sum of a million and a quarter dollars for 

 the establishment of a university for research on the model of Johns Hopkins. 



A site has been secured at Kemp Town, overlooking Queen's Park, Brighton, 

 for the Gardens of the recently started Zoological Society of Brighton and Hove. 

 The managing directors are the Earl of Llandaff and Mr. F. W. Frohawk. 



On April 9, a monument to Pasteur will be unveiled at Lille, and a Pasteur 

 Institute opened. 



The American Naturalist reports that the University of Indiana will have 

 its biological station this year at Warsaw, Ind., that a permanent station in 

 connection with Tuft's College is proposed on the rich shores of Casco Bay, 

 U.S.A., and that the Natural History Society of St. Petersburg has established 

 a biological station on the shores of Lake Bologoy. 



23 NAT. SC. VOL. XIV. NO. 86. 337 



