NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 

 SOCIETIES. 



Dr. J. Walther has been appointed Professor of Geology and Palaeontology 

 at the University of Jena ; Dr. A. Tenne, Professor of Mineralogy at the University 

 of Berlin ; Dr. F. Altmann, Professor of Botany at the University of Freiburg i.B. ; 

 Dr. A. Konig, Professor of Zoology at the University of Bonn ; and Dr. R. 

 Scharizer, Professor of Mineralogy at the University of Czernowitz. 



Mr. p. Chalmers Mitchell, M.A., F.Z.S., lecturer in Biology at the Charing 

 Cross Hospital Medical School, has been appointed lecturer in Biology at the 

 London Hospital Medical College. 



Mr. R. Lvdekker, F.R.S., is again in the Argentine Republic. He is engaged 

 on the further study of the palseontological riches of the La Plata Museum. 



Dr. C. J. Forsyth Major, accompanied by Mr. A. Robert, starts for Mada- 

 gascar at the end of this month under the auspices of the Royal Society. Dr. Major 

 will endeavour to complete our knowledge of the extinct animals that have inhabited 

 the island, and his special qualifications, both as a zoologist and an explorer, allow 

 us to hope for considerable and valuable results. Dr. Major is a Scotsman, and was 

 born in Glasgow ; as now he belongs to every country, we hope he will have little 

 trouble with any of the powers that be. 



Mr. F. W. W. Howell proposes to make a third exploration of Iceland. 

 The district to receive attention is the Northern Glacial district of the Vatna Jokull. 

 The funds necessary Mr. Howell proposes to raise by promising a lecture on his 

 return to any society or institution for a fee of five guineas. 



Our statement that Dr. R. Semon had left the Anatomical Institute at Jena was 

 gleaned from an erroneous source ; although Drs. Braus and Driiner have become 

 assistants at that establishment, it will not lose the valued services of Professor 

 Semon. 



The following eminent botanists have promised to attend the meeting of the 

 British Association : — Dr. Strassburger, Dr. Zacharias, Dr. Errera, Dr. Pfeffer, and 

 Mr. Douglas H. Campbell. 



Mr. George Holt, of Liverpool, has given ;^5,ooo to the University College 

 of that town, which is to be invested to maintain the pathological and bacteriologi- 

 cal laboratories. Professor Boyce, of University College, has been elected by the 

 council to fill the newly-created post. 



The generosity of Ludwig Mond, F.R.S., has placed at the disposal of the 

 Royal Institution the freehold of No. 20 Albemarle Street, to be held for the 

 purpose of a laboratory, to be named " The Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory of 

 the Royal Institution." Mr. Mond further offers to make all necessary structural 

 alterations and to equip the laboratory with apparatus, appliances, etc. 



