NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 

 SOCIETIES. 



The following appointments are announced : — Mr. Vaughan Harley, to be Pro- 

 essor of Pathological Chemistry in University College, London ; G. C. Druce, to be 

 Curator of the Fielding Herbarium at Oxford; Dr. O. Burger, to be Professor of 

 Zoology, and Dr. P. A. Pauly, to be Professor of Applied Geology, at Gottingen ; 

 Dr. H. Schenck, of Bonn, to be Professor of Botany in Darmstadt ; Dr. E. 

 Knoblauch, of Tiibingen, to be Assistant in Botany at Giessen University ; Dr. 

 Schuberg, to be Extraordinary Professor of Zoology in Heidelberg University ; Dr. 

 F. A. Werf, Director of the Experiment Station at Java, to be Professor of Botany 

 in Munich University, in place of Professor Rauwenhoff, retired ; K. D. Glinka, 

 Curator of the Mineralogical Department of St. Petersburg University, to be Pro- 

 fessor of Geology and Mineralogy in the Agricultural Institute in Nova Alexandria, 

 Poland ; Professor A. A. Tichimirov, of Moscow University, to the Chair of 

 Zoology and the Directorship of the Zoological Museum ; Walter W. Froggatt, to be 

 Government Entomologist, New South Wales, in place of the late Mr. A. S. OUiff. 

 Dr. J. v. Gerlach, Professor of Anatomy in the University of Erlangen, Dr. Karl 

 Miiller, Professor of Anatomy in the Veterinary High School, Berlin, and Dr. Carl 

 Claus, Professor of Zoology in Vienna University, have retired. 



A BILL consolidating the educational institutions of London with a view to the 

 establishment of a central university, has been introduced into the House of Lords 

 by the Duke of Devonshire. 



A SCIENCE hall, the gift of Dr. E. H. Williams, was formally presented to Ver- 

 mont University on June 23. This building will cost about ;f 48,000, and will contain, 

 when completed, departments of electrical engineering, metallurgy, biology, chemistry, 

 and physics. A geological museum and library is to be erected at New York 

 University. 



The University Extension Courses at Odessa have been very well attended, 

 considering that this is the first time they have been attempted in Russia. The 

 attendances were as follows in the various branches of science : — anatomy, 350 ; bac- 

 teriology, 340; botany, 150; chemistry, 150; mineralogy, 130; physics, 300; 

 zoology, 280. These courses last about three months, beginning in October and in 

 January, and the charge for each course is only about 6s. per term. 



The National Collection of Plants, formerly in the custody of the U.S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, is now housed in the National Museum, Washington, where a 

 staff of the members has been appointed to take charge of it. 



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We are glad to see that a movement is afoot to give a public testimonial to 

 Mr. Mark H. Judge, secretary of the Sunday Society, to whose efforts is largely due 

 the recent Sunday opening of museums. The chairman of the testimonial committee 

 is Canon S. A. Barnett, and subscriptions may be sent to Professor Corfield. at 

 61 Saville Row, London, W. 



