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NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 

 SOCIETIES. 



We note among recent appointments : — G. F. Stout, of St. John's College, 

 Cambridge, to be Anderson Lecturer on Comparative Psychology at Aberdeen ; 

 Professor W. Dames, to succeed the late Professor Beyrich in the Chair of Geology 

 and Palseontology at Berlin, and to have charge of the geological and palaeonto- 

 logical collections in the Museum fiir Naturkunde ; Dr. Wilhelm Sandmeyer, to be 

 Professor of Physiology in Marburg University ; Dr. Benecke, to be Docent in 

 Botany in Strasburg University ; Professor F. Hofmeister, of Prague, to the Chair 

 of Physiological Chemistry at Strasburg ; Dr. J. E. Weiss, of Munich, to be Pro- 

 fessor of Botany and Zoology in Freising ; Dr. Staudenmaier, of Munich, to be Pro- 

 fessor of Chemistry and Mineralogy in Freising ; Dr. B. Hofer, of Munich Univer- 

 sity, to be Professor of Fish -Anatomy and Fish-Diseases at the Veterinary School 

 in that town ; Dr. F. W. K. Muller, of the Ethnological Museum in Berlin, to be 

 Directorial Assistant ; A. Zimmermann, Professor of Botany in Berlin University, 

 to the Botanical Garden in Buitenzorg, Java ; F. S. Earle, to be Professor of Biology 

 at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute; B. M. Duggar, to be Assistant in Cryptogamic 

 Botany in Cornell University ; Dr. Colin A. Scott, to be Professor of Experimental 

 Psychology at the Chicago Normal School ; Dr. Bashford Dean, to be Adjunct- 

 Professor of Zoology at Columbia College. 



Mr. E. Gerrard, who for fifty-five years and a half has been an Attendant in 

 the Zoological Department of the British Museum, and who for ten years before 

 that was connected with the then Museum of the Zoological Society of London, 

 quits the service of the Trustees at the end of September. Mr. Gerrard has been 

 for many years a veritable encyclopsedia of information as regards the history of 

 specimens in the British Museum, and his loss will be keenly felt. In 1862 he con- 

 tributed a catalogue of the bones of Mammalia in the Museum. We understand 

 that he will still take an active interest in zoology in connection with his son, and we 

 hope he will enjoy the best of health in his well-earned retirement. 



The entomologist, G. A. Baer, of Paris, has gone to Peru to investigate the 

 insect fauna. 



DoRPAT University and the Russian Geographical Society have requested 

 Dr. N. Busch to undertake a botanical investigation of the Caucasus. 



We deeply regret to learn, as we do from the Daily Telegraph, that in the great 

 cyclone which passed over Paris on Thursday, September 10, damage to the extent 

 of ;^3,ooo was done at the Musee d'histoire naturelle. Not only did water enter 

 the laboratory and damage many of the specimens there exposed, but several litho- 

 graphic stones prepared for the illustration of forthcoming memoirs were irretrievably 

 spoilt. 



An attempt is being made by the inhabitants of Londonderry to found a 

 museum. We learn from a correspondent, however, that the object is chiefly to get 

 together a collection of relics illustrating the history of the town, though a pro- 



