April, i897. NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, ETC. 283 



contains 60 stalls. The Institute is well furnished with laboratories and with a 

 library, and is lit by electric light. Its object is to investigate various branches of 

 hygiene, chemistry, micro-biology, and sanitary physics. Dr Sanarelli has already 

 discovered in Rio Janeiro the microbe that produces the amarilla fever, an epidemic 

 which periodically attacks certain districts of Brazil, and this gives the Institute a 

 good start in public estimation. 



The Museums Association meets this year in Oxford, under the presidency of 

 Professor Ray Lanke^ter, from June 29 to July 2. The local secretary is Dr. W. B. 

 Benham. So much excellent museum work has been done of late years at Oxford 

 that an interesting meeting is expected. Those wishing to attend, or to present 

 papers, should communicate with the Secretaries, H. M. Platnauer, The Museum 

 York, or E. Howarth, The Museum, Sheffield. 



We have received the fortieth annual Report of the Committee of the Sheffield 

 Museum from September, 1S95, to August, 1896. The Museum has now completed 

 the twenty-first year of its existence, and a short summary of its growth is given. 

 Owing to the congestion now arrived at, it is suggested that subsidiary museums 

 should be built in different parts of the town. 



A SECTOR of a section oi Sequoia gigantea, being one-eleventh of the circle, has 

 been presented to the Bradford Corporation by Mr. John Clayton. It is from the 

 same tree as the section shown in the American Museum, New York, and the 

 Natural History Museum, London. 



The Report of the Museums at Bolton, Yorkshire, for 1896 states that an exhibit 

 has been arranged illustrating the anatomy, affinities, and life-histories of types of 

 insects, with descriptive labels, drawings, and micro-photographs, as well as 

 specimens. This serves as an introduction to the more extensive collections, and 

 has already proved of considerable use to visitors. The arrangement of the 

 mineralogical and palreontological collections is now completed, the fossils being 

 arranged in stratigraphical order ; the labels for the various Periods drawn up by 

 Mr. H. Bolton, and already alluded to by us, have been adopted by this museum. 

 The wall-space is used for the exhibition of photographs, drawings, and maps. On 

 the whole, it appears that those in charge of the natural history collections are fully 

 inspired with the modern spirit, and they have their reward in a steady increase in 

 the number of visitors. We are glad to see that the Bolton Botanical Society holds 

 its meetings in one of the rooms of the museum. The Report also contains the 

 meteorological records of Bolton during the year, drawn up by W. W. Midgley. 



Mr. H. J. Ernst, an apothecary of Iceland, has presented to the State 

 Museum in Stockholm a valuable collection of Icelandic minerals. 



The collections of Gustav Nachtigal from the west coast of Africa, made 

 during 1884-85, are now exhibited in the Berlin Museum of Ethnology. 



The Berlin Museum fiir Naturkunde has received from the island of Ralum 

 a collection of the flora and fauna made by Dr. Dahl. 



Science states that a public museum and library will be founded at Cettigne, 

 Montenegro, and that the museum will contain antiquities found in the principality 

 itself, including those recently obtained at Dukla. 



The new building of the South African Museum at Cape Town has now been 

 opened to the public. 



From the Report of the Albany Museum, S. Africa, by the Director, Dr. 

 Schonland, we learn that the monthly average attendance during 1896 was 1,795. 

 Many specimens had been received, but great difficulty was felt in accommodating 



