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NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 

 SOCIETIES. 



Misled by an official notice from the Smithsonian Institution, we announced 

 that Mr. F. W. True had been placed in charge of the National Museum, 

 Washington. We now learn that Mr. C. D. Walcott, Director of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey, has been appointed Acting Assistant Secretary of the Smith- 

 sonian, with duties confined to the charge of the National Museum. He will, 

 however, only undertake these duties temporarily, without relinquishing his present 

 work. The possibilities of the situation are alluded to in our Notes and Comments. 



The following appointments are announced : — Dr. James Ward, well-known as 

 a physiological psychologist, to be Professor of Mental Philosophy and Logic at 

 Cambridge, where also Dr. E. Barclay-Smith is to be Senior Demonstrator, and 



F. C. Kempson, Junior Demonstrator, in the Department of Anatomy ; Francis E. 

 Lloyd, of the Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon, to be Professor of Biology 

 in the Teachers' College, New York ; Professor B. Hatschek, of Prague, to the 

 chair of Zoology at Vienna University ; Dr. Ch. Julin, of Liittich University, to be 

 Professor of Comparative Anatomy; Dr. J. Riickert to be Professor of Anatomy 

 in Munich University ; Dr. C. J. Martin, to be provisionally the successor to Dr. 



G. B. Halford as Professor of Physiology in Sydney University ; Dr. Hans 

 Lenk, to be Professor of Geology at Wiirzburg University ; Mr. W. Gardiner, 

 Lecturer of Botany at Cambridge, to be Bursar at Clare College ; Dr. Alexander P. 

 Anderson, to be Professor of Botany at Clemson College, S.C. ; Dr. A. Maggiora, 

 to be Professor of Experimental Hygiene in Modena University, and Dr. A. 

 Serafina, to hold the same position at Padua ; Dr. C. Wardell Stiles, as special 

 commissioner for the U. S. A., to report on the parasitic diseases of seal life ; Mr. 

 J. G. Luehmann, for nearly thirty years principal Assistant to the late Baron von 

 Mueller, to be Curator of the Melbourne Herbarium ; Dr. G. v. Istvanfii, formerly 

 Privatdocent at Buda-Pesth University, and Curator of the National Museum, to 

 be on the staff of Klausenburg University; J. J. Forrester, to be Director of the 

 Royal Agricultural Society's Experiment Station in Woburn, England; Dr. K. 

 Miiller, of Halle, the well-known bryologist, and whilom editor of Nuiur, Dr. E. 

 Pringsheim, Privatdocent of Physics in Berlin University, Dr. Karl Eckstein, of 

 Eberswald, Dr. Georg Fischer, of Bamberg, and Dr. Ludwig Plate, of Berlin, to 

 receive the title of Professor. G. Dewalque, Professor of Physical Geography and 

 Geology at Liittich University, having reached the age-limit, is resigning his post. 



The University of Catania proposes to construct a zoological laboratory on the 

 Island of Cyclops, off the coast of Sicily, which has been presented to them by 

 Signor Gravina. 



Professor J. Chandra Bose, lecturing before the Indian Section of the Society 

 of Arts on February ii, complained that the University of Calcutta was not properly 

 equipped for scientific research, nor was its science-teaching properly organised. 



The Government proposes to ask Parliament to provide funds for the frontage 

 of the South Kensington Museum and for the electric light installation in the 

 National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, and the Natural History Museum. 



Mr. H. W. Moffat has presented to the British Museum (Natural History) a 

 skeleton of one of the ancient inhabitants of Zimbabwe, the authenticity of which was 



