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NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 

 SOCIETIES. 



The following appointments aie announced : — 



Dr. R. von Lendenfeld, to be Professor of Zoology at Prague ; A. W. Hughes, 

 to be Professor of Anatomy at King's College, London, his place as Professor of 

 Anatomy at the University College of S. Wales and Monmouthshire being taken by 

 Dr. A. F. Dixon of Dublin University ; Dr. Ernst Gaupp, of Breslau, to be Professor 

 Extraordinarius of Embryology at Freiburg. 



G. F. Scott-Elliot, to be Lecturer in Botany at the Glasgow and West of Scot- 

 land Technical College; Dr. H. Ross, to be Curator of the Botanical Garden at 

 Munich ; Dr. W. I. Palladin, of Charkow, to be Professor of Botany at Warsaw ; 

 Dr. P. Cannarella, to be Assistant in the Botanical Garden at Catania ; Dr. Luigi 

 Buscalioni, of Turin, to be Assistant in the Botanical Institute of Rome University. 



Dr. Carl Burckhardt, of Basle, and Dr. Leo Wehrli, of Zurich, to be Geologists 

 at the Museum of La Plata. 



Dr. Erich Wernicke, to be Professor Extraordinarius of Hygiene at Marburg 

 University; Dr. J. Petruschky, to be Director of the Bacteriological Institute, 

 Dantzig ; Dr. Jas. Clark to succeed J. Muir as Professor of Agriculture at the 

 Yorkshire College, Leeds. 



We rejoice to learn that Sir William Flower, who has just reached the age-limit 

 of the Civil Service, has been granted by the Treasury an extension for three years. 

 The work accomplished last year under the immediate supervision of the Director of 

 the British Museum (Natural History) is proof, if proof be needed, that Sir William 

 has not yet grown stale in office. We wish him all health and strength to carry out 

 his numerous plans. 



Messrs. Godman and Salvin have offered to the Hope Department of the 

 Oxford University Museum a valuable collection of butterflies, especially rich in 

 species from Central America, a district poorly represented in the Hope collection. 



The Museum of Economic Geology in New York University has received series 

 of specimens illustrating the geology of various anthracite basins, and numerous 

 important mines in the United States. The new museum of the University is now 

 nearly finished. 



The Colombo Museum, Ceylon, from the 1896 Report of which we quote largely 

 in our Notes and Comments, shows a very satisfactory state of advance so far as the 

 scientific part of the work is concerned. Extension of the buildings, however, is 

 greatly needed, and other expenditure seems desirable. Bats, for instance, have taken 

 to entering the building through the open ironwork above the doors, and caused 

 much unpleasantness and even damage. 



The Glasgow Museum has recently secured from the executors of the late 

 David Corse Glen, under very favourable conditions, that geologist's well-known 

 collection of over 8,000 mineral specimens, as well as many rock specimens, fossils, 

 recent shells, and other natural and prehistoric objects. It has also purchased 

 Alfred Brown's fine collection of British shells. Among the donations we notice a 

 specimen of Spirula, Levis from the South Pacific, but it is not stated whether the soft 

 parts are preserved. 



