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NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 

 SOCIETIES. 



The following appointments are announced : — Dr. A. D. Waller, to be 

 Fullerian Professor of Physiology for three years, and Dr. A. Scott, to be Superin- 

 tendent of the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory of the Royal Institution ; Dr. 

 A. Hill, to the Chair of Anatomy at Cambridge ; F. T. Howard, to be one of H.M. 

 Inspectors of Schools, his place as Lecturer in Geology at University College of 

 S. Wales, Cardiff, being taken temporarily by A. B. Badger ; Dr. G. Winkler, to be 

 Director of the School of Mines at Freiburg i. S. ; Dr. H. Stuhr, to be Assistant in 

 the Anatomical Institute at Breslau ; Professor Bubnof, of Dorpat, to the Chair of 

 Hygiene in Moscow University ; Dr. S. Bianchi to be full Professor of Anatomy at 

 Vienna ; Dr. B. Boccardi, to be Associate Professor of Microscopical Anatomy in 

 the University of Naples; Dr. J. Pantocsek, of Tavarnok, to be Director of the 

 Land-Hospital in Pressburg, Hungary ; Dr. V. Goldschmidt, to be Professor of 

 Mineralogy in Heidelberg University ; Dr. N. Andrussow, of St. Petersburg, to the 

 Chair of Geology in Dorpat (Jurjev) University ; J. de Winter, of the Zoological 

 Garden at Antwerp, to be Superintendent of the Garden at Gizeh, Cairo; Professor 

 F. Berwerth, to be Director of the Mineralogical Department in the Natural History 

 Museum, Vienna, in place of Dr. A. Brezina, retired ; F. Nansen, to be Professor 

 and Curator of the Biological Institute in Christiania; M. B. Waite, to be Professor 

 of Botany in the Graduate School of Georgetown University ; Dr. C. A. Scott, to 

 the Chair of Experimental Psychology and Child Study at the Chicago Normal 

 School ; Dr. Guy Tawney, of Leipzig, to be Demonstrator of Experimental 

 Psychology in Princeton University ; O. F. Cook, to be Curator of the Cryptogomic 

 Collections of the National Herbarium, U.S. ; W. J. V. Osterhout, to be Lecturer 

 in Botany in California University in place of Mr. A. Howe, resigned; A. W. 

 Grabau, to be Assistant in Geology, S. C. Prescott and A. W. Weysse, to be 

 Instructors in Biology, G. H. Barton, to be Professor of Geology in the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology; Dr. R. M. Bolton, of Philadelphia, to be 

 Instructor in Bacteriology at Missouri University; Dr. H. M. Knower, to be 

 Instructor in Biology at Williams College, U.S.A. ; H. C. Prinsen-Geerligs, to be 

 Director of the Experiment Station in Java. We are pleased to note that 

 Mr. R. J. Etheridge has been assisting his father in the arrangement of the geologi- 

 cal collections of the Australian Museum. 



On the occasion of the opening of the new Gatty Marine Laboratory at St. 

 Andrews on October 30, Sir William Flower, who attended as Director of the Natural 

 History Museum, Canon H. B. Tristram, Professor G. Gilson, and Dr. Michael 

 Foster, were made LL.DD. of that University. 



Professor Gustaf Retzius was made honorary M.D. of the University of 

 Wurzburg on the occasion of the opening of the new University buildings. 



A memorial statue to Dr. H. Burmeister is being erected by subscription in 

 Buenos Ayres to commemorate his long and important services to science, and 

 especially to the National Museum. We understand that the Argentine Govern- 

 ment has refused permission for it to be set up in a public place, on the ground that 

 Dr. Burmeister was a foreigner ; and it is thus destined to occupy an honoured 

 position in the hall of the University. 



