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NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 

 SOCIETIES. 



At the Smithsonian Institution F. W. True succeeds the late G. Brown Goode 

 as Assistant Secretary and Director of the National Museum, while Richard Rathbun 

 becomes Assistant in Charge, in place of the late W. C. Winlock. E. Buchner, to 

 be Director of the Zoological Museum of St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, in 

 place of T. D. Pleske, resigned ; Augusta Arnback, to be Amanuensis to the Pro- 

 fessor of Zoology at Stockholm University ; Professor M. J. Elrod, of Illinois 

 Wesleyan University, to be Professor of Biology in the Montana State University ; 

 Clarence W. Parley, to be Assistant in Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology ; W. E. Castle, to be Instructor in Biology in Knox College, Galesburg, 

 111. ; Miss Knight, to be Professor of Anatomy and Pathology to the Lhudiana 

 Medical School, India; G. Hedren, to be Amanuensis at the Polyclinic of Upsala 

 University ; J. H. Burkell, late Assistant Curator of the Herbarium, Cambridge 

 University, to be an Assistant in the Kew Herbarium ; A. Pestalozzi, to be Assistant 

 in the Zurich Botanical Museum ; Ernest Clark, Secretary of the Royal Agricultural 

 Society, to be first Gilbey Lecturer in the History and Economics of Agriculture, 

 Cambridge : Dr. Edler, of Gottingen, to be Associate Professor of Agriculture, at 

 Jena ; Professor Blass, to be full Professor of Geology at Innsbruck ; Dr. Szadeczky, 

 to be Associate Professor of Geology at Klausenberg ; F. B. Peck, of Amherst 

 College, Mass., to be Associate Professor of Geology and Palaeontology at Lafayette 

 College, Easton, Pa. During the absence of Professor H. O. Lindgren, of Lund, on 

 parliamentary duties, Professor C. M. Fiirst will lecture in Anatomy, and Dr. N. E. 

 Wadstein on anatomy and histology ; during Professor S. A. B. Lundgren's absence 

 from the same university, the teaching in geology will be conducted by Dr. J. C. 

 Moberg. 



The only New Year's honour in which the British public has shown much 

 interest has been the raising to the peerage of Sir Joseph Lister, who will, we are 

 glad to learn, be still known under his own famous name, as Lord Lister. 



The Royal Order of the Prussian Crown of the second class has been given by 

 the Emperor of Germany to Dr. Roux, whose co-discoverer of the antidiphtheritic 

 serum. Dr. Behring, has been invested with the Grand Order of the Crown of Italy. 

 Other honours are the gifts by the Czar of the Cross of the Commander of the Order 

 of St. Anne to Mr. Gerard, Director of the Paris Municipal Laboratory ; the Cross 

 of St. Stanislas, to Dr. Bordas, Sub-Director ; and the same to Dr. Bertillon, Director 

 of the Anthropometric Service. 



We learn that Professor Otto M. Torell, head of the Swedish Geological Survey, 

 is seeking retirement on a pension. 



The Walsingham Gold Medal of Cambridge University has been awarded to 

 W. McDougall, of St. John's College and St. Thomas's Hospital, for original 

 researches in physiology. 



R. W. T. GiJNTHER has been elected to an Official Fellowship at Magdalen 

 College, Oxford, as tutor in natural science. 



