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NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 

 SOCIETIES. 



The following appointments are announced : — Professor W. J. Sollas, Trinity 

 College, Dublin, to be Professor of Geology at Oxford ; Herbert Smith, New College, 

 Oxford, to be Assistant in the Department of Minerals, British Museum ; Isaac H. 

 Burkill, of Cambridge, to be Assistant at Kew Gardens ; Miss Umpherston, to be 

 Lecturer in Physiology at St. Andrew's University ; Dr. S. Mollier, of Munich, to 

 be Professor of Anatomy at Gottingen ; Dr. J. Brandl, of Berlin, to be Professor of 

 Pharmacology in the Munich Veterinary College; Dr. J. Ki-iechbaumer, to be 

 Curator of the State Zoological Collection, Munich ; Dr. E. Beckmann, of Erlangen, 

 to be Professor of Pharmacy at Leipzig ; Dr. Carl Fl'itterer, to be Professor of 

 Mineralogy and Geology at Karlsruhe Technical High School ; Dr. C. Nussbaum, 

 to be Professor of Hygiene in the Technical High School at Hanover ; Dr. Kirchner, 

 Instructor in Hygiene and Bacteriology in Hanover Technical College, to receive 

 the title of Professor ; Dr. K. Kaiser, to be Professor of Physiology at Heidelberg ; 

 Dr. F. Lafar, of Stuttgart, to be Professor of Fermentation-physiology and 

 Bacteriology in Vienna Technical High School ; A. Engler, of Stans, to be Professor 

 of Forestry at the Polytechnic School, Zurich ; Dr. Felix, to be Professor of 

 Anatomy at Zurich ; Dr. O. Kruch, of Rome, to the Chair of Botany in the 

 Agricultural Institute in Perugia ; E. Chiovenda, to be Curator, and Dr. B. Longo, 

 to be Assistant, at Rome University Botanical Institute; Dr. A. Terracciano, of 

 Naples, to be Assistant at the Botanical Institute, Palermo University ; P. 

 Baccarini, to be full Professor of Botany in Catania University ; Prof. R. Fusari, of 

 Bologna, to the Chair of Human Anatomy at Modena; Prof. G. Valenti, of Perugia_ 

 to the Chair of Human Anatomy at Catania ; Dr. Umberto Rossi, of Florence, to 

 be Professor of Anatomy at Perugia ; Dr. Kolderup, to be Curator of the minerals 

 and rocks in Bergen Museum ; Prof. A. F. von Waldheim, of Warsaw, to be 

 Director of the St. Petersburg Botanical Garden ; Dr. L. F. Barker, to be Assistant 

 Professor of Anatomy in the Johns Hopkins University ; Prof. Alex. C. Abbott, to 

 be Chief of the Bacteriological Division of the Philadelphia Bureau of Health ; R. 

 Rathbun, to be Assistant-Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, with duties con- 

 nected with the bureaus of the Institution other than the National Museum ; Dr. E. 

 Klebs, to be Professor of Pathology in the Rush Medical College, Chicago. 



The Marquis of Bute, who is now Lord Rector of the University of St. Andrews, 

 intends to erect there a building containing laboratories, lecture-rooms, and museums 

 for the departments of anatomy, physiology, materia raedica, and botany, the School 

 to be known henceforward as the " Bute School of Medicine." 



The late Professor W. H. Pancoast has, says Science, left his anatomical and 

 surgical collections and |6oo per annum to the Medico-chirurgical College of 

 Philadelphia. 



Sir Archibald Geikie will deliver six lectures on the principles of geology at 

 the John Hopkins University on Wednesday, April 2i, and the five following week- 

 days. He will also give one public lecture in Baltimore. Some geological excur- 

 sions have been arranged for his auditors. 



La Nutiiraleza (Madrid) for February i8, contains an account of the Institute of 

 Experimental Hygiene of Monte Video, which was inaugurated on March i6, 1896. 

 The director is Dr. Jose Sanarelli. The stable for animals under observation 



