NEWS: 
Tue following appointments have recently been made :—Dr. Howard Ayers, 
professor of biology in Missouri University, to be president of the University 
of Cincinnati; Dr. Tarlton H. Bean, to be director of forestry and fisheries 
of the United States Commission to the Paris Exposition of 1900; Dr. C. E. 
Beecher, professor of historical geology in Yale University, to succeed the late 
Prof. O. C. Marsh as curator of the geological collections of the Peabody 
Museum, and to be a member of the executive council of the museum; Miss 
Edith Chick, as Quain student in botany for three years at University College, 
London ; W. R. Crane of Janesville, Wis., to be assistant professor of mining 
engineering at Kansas University; Dr. G. Davis, to be assistant professor of 
applied anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania; Dr. Ida Hyde of 
Cambridge, Mass., to be assistant professor of zoology at Kansas University ; 
Miss A. Lambert, M.Sc., to be assistant lecturer in biology in the University 
of Melbourne ; Dr. G. Lindau, to be Custos of the Imperial Botanical Museum 
of Berlin; Miss Lillie J. Martin, to be acting assistant professor of psychology 
in Stanford University during Dr. Frank Angell’s absence in Europe; Prof. 
E. A. Schafer, F.R.S. of University College, London, to be professor of 
physiology in the University of Edinburgh, in succession to the late Prof. 
Rutherford ; Dr. J. L. Wortman, of the American Museum of Natural History, 
to take charge of the new collections of fossil vertebrata in the Carnegie 
Museum, Pittsburgh. 
Mr. F. J. Bennett has resigned his position on the Geological Survey of 
England, after 30 years’ service, during which he has mapped large areas of 
Cretaceous and later rocks in Surrey, Berks, Wilts, and the eastern counties. 
We regret to learn that it was owing to medical orders that Prof. E. Ray 
Lankester was compelled to withdraw his promise to deliver the ‘‘ Robert Boyle” 
lecture at Oxford this summer. He has been recruiting his health by a trip 
to various Continental museums. The Boyle lecture was delivered on June 6, 
by Prof. J. G. M‘Kendrick, who took for his subject the physiological percep- 
tion of musical tone. 
On the occasion of the birthday of Her Majesty the Queen, the following 
among other honours have been bestowed :—a baronetey was conferred on 
Prof. J. §. Burdon Sanderson, and the honour of knighthood on Dr. W. 
Mitchell Banks and Dr. John Sibbald. Mr. Stanley was appointed to be 
G.C.B., and Prof. Michael Foster to be K.C.B. Dr. J. C. Meredith, secretary 
of the Royal University of Ireland, is also among the new knights. 
In a convocation at Oxford on May 16, the degree of M.A. (honoris causa) 
was conferred upon Mr. Roland Trimen, F.R.S., formerly curator of the South 
African Museum, Cape Town, and late president of the Entomological Society 
of London. 
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