NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 

 SOCIETIES. 



The following appointments have been announced : — Colonel G. T, Plunkett, 

 R.E., Secretary of the Royal College of Science for Ireland, to be Director of the 

 Science and Art Institutions in Ireland ; A. W. Rogers, of Christ's College, Cam- 

 bridge, to be Assistant Geologist on the Geological Survey of Cape Colony ; 

 W. L. Sclater, to be Curator of the South African Museum, Cape Town ; Dr. 

 Hiirthle, to be Extraordinary Professor of Physiology at Breslau ; Dr. K. G. 

 Hiifner, Professor of Organic and Physiological Chemistry at Tubingen, to succeed 

 the late Professor Hoppe-Seyler at Strassburg ; Dr. A. Froriep, to be Ordinary 

 Professor of Anatomy at Tubingen ; Dr. W. Roux, of Innsbruck, as Professor of 

 Anatomy in Halle University ; Dr. Karl Muller, of Berlin, as Professor of Technical 

 Botany to the Technical School of Charlottenburg ; Professor N. Kudnetzoff, 

 as Director of the Botanic Garden of Dorpat University, with N. Busch as Assistant- 

 Director ; Dr. J. Ritzema Bos, as Professor of Plant-pathology at Amsterdam 

 University ; Dr. N. V. Ussing, as Professor of Mineralogy at Copenhagen 

 University ; Dr. Carlo Fornasini, to be Assistant in the Geological Museum 

 of Bologna University ; Professor Achille Russo, to be Lecturer in Natural 

 History at the Technical Institute of Melfi ; G. Nappi, to be Professor of Natural 

 History at the Lyceum of Caltanisetta ; F. Pierucci, to be Professor of Natural 

 History at the Lyceum of Rieti ; Dr. A. Bertino, to be Assistant in Zoology, 

 Physiology, and Comparative Anatomy at Sassari University ; Giuseppe Boccino, to 

 be Assistant in Natural History and Agriculture at the Technical Institute of Udine ; 

 E. Ficalbi, of Cagliari, to be Professor of Zoology in Messina ; Professor Gaetano 

 Pittalunga, to be Instructor in Natural History at the Lyceum of Savona; Dr. 

 Theobald Smith, late Chief of the Division of Animal Pathology in the U.S. 

 Department of Agriculture, to be Lecturer at Harvard, and Bacteriologist to the 

 Massachusetts State Board of Health ; he is succeeded by Dr. V. A. Moore, who 

 has for assistant Dr. P. A. Fish ; Dr. Lucien M. Underwood, to be Professor of 

 Botany in the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Auburn, Alabama ; Mr. F. S. 

 Earle, to be Assistant in the Division of Vegetable Physiology and Pathology in the 

 U.S. Department of Agriculture, in place of J. F. James; F. L. Washburn, to be 

 Professor of Zoology at Oregon State University ; Dr. H. Nichols, to be Lecturer 

 in Psychology, and Dr. James Ellis Humphrey, to be Instructor in Botany, at 

 Johns Hopkins University; Dr. J. P. Lotsy, formerly of Johns Hopkins, to assist 

 Dr. Treub at the Buitenzorg Gardens, Java. 



Mr. C. A. Barber has been appointed temporary lecturer in botany at Cooper's 

 Hill, in order to fill the vacancy caused by Professor Marshall Ward's transference 

 to Cambridge. We understand that changes in the constitution of the college are 

 contemplated, and, until the new scheme is settled, no permanent appointment will 

 be made. We trust, however, that the position of botany in the curriculum will 

 not be lowered in any way. 



Mr. Harry Page Woodward has resigned the post of Government Geologist 

 to West Australia, and has taken service with the well-known firm of Bewick, 

 Moreing & Co., of Coolgardie and London. 



On January n, the Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg elected Professor 

 James Hall, of Albany, an Honorary Foreign Member, and Professor Ray Lankester 

 and Mr. C. D. Walcott among its corresponding members. 



On the occasion of Sir Henry Acland's retirement from the Regius Professor- 

 ship of Medicine in the University of Oxford, a meeting was held in the hall of 

 All Souls' College, when the Vice-Chancellor presented Sir Henry with an illumi- 

 nated address, and with a list of 400 subscribers to a sum of some ^3,000, which 

 will be devoted to the enlargement of the Sarah Acland Home for Nurses. A bust 



