NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 

 SOCIETIES. 



Dr. William Peterson has been appointed Principal of the McGill University, 

 in the room of Sir WiUiam Dawson. Principal Dawson resigned about a year ago. 

 Dr. Peterson has been for twelve years head of University College, Dundee. 



Dr. p. L. Sclater has been elected an Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi 

 College, Oxford. He was formerly a Fellow of this, his old college. 



Sir Thomas Temple, of Ballintemple, Wicklow, succeeds to the Vice- 

 Presidency of the Royal Dublin Society. The office was rendered vacant by the 

 death of the Right Hon. William Cogan. 



Dr. Carl v. Heider, formerly an assistant in the Zoological Institute of 

 Berlin University, has been appointed Professor of Zoology at the University of 

 Innsbruck, and Dr. Michael von Lenhossek, Professor of Anatomy. Dr. von 

 Lenhossek comes from Wiirzburg. Dr. R. von Lendenfeld has become Professor 

 of Zoology in the University of Czernowitz ; and Dr. Schevviakov leaves Heidelberg 

 and goes to the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg as assistant in the Zoological 

 Institute. 



Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Bent have started on another expedition to Southern 

 Arabia, where they hope to continue the archaeological and botanical work com- 

 menced last year in the Hadramaut Valley. They expect to return to England 

 next April. 



Mr. a. Trevor-Battye, about whose safety so unnecessary a fuss was made 

 in October last, has returned from Kolguev Island, where he went about the end 

 of June to study and collect the birds of the island. 



We regret to learn that M. de Brazza, the well-known explorer, suffered ship- 

 wreck near Tchumber, on his way back from Kounde to Brazzaville on September 30. 

 M. de Brazza was no worse for his experience, but all his papers were unfortu- 

 nately lost. 



A Life of Joseph Wolfe, the famous painter of animals, has just been 

 completed by Mr. A. H. Palmer. Many examples of his work are in the possession 

 of the Zoological Society, some of the most striking of which are those of the 

 larger apes, and hang on the walls of the meeting room. 



Mr. Spencer Moore, who, under somewhat unfavourable conditions, recently 

 made a successful botanical exploration of a portion of the Matto Grosso district in 

 Brazil, has gone to seek a better return for his labour in the gold-fields of West 

 Australia. We trust he will make money enough for him to devote the rest of 

 his life to botanical work. 



