NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 

 SOCIETIES. 



The following appointments have recently been made: Mr. F. E. Allhusen, 

 B.A. Cantab., as science-master at Charterhouse, to give instruction in Physics, 

 Chemistry, and Geology ; Mr. H. B. Pollard, of Christ Church, Oxford, known for 

 his valuable researches on the morphology of the fish's head, to be Lecturer in 

 Biology to Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, to take which post he will 

 vacate a Berkeley Research Fellowship at Owens College ; Dr. Gabriel von 

 Perlaky to be assistant at the Botanical Institute of Budapest ; Dr. Filippo 

 Giovannini, to be Chief Conservator of the Royal Botanic Institute in Bologna; Mr. 

 V. K. Chesnut, to be Assistant in the Botanical Section of the U.S. Department of 

 Agriculture ; Mr. W. W. Clendenin, professor of geology and mineralogy in the 

 University of Louisiana, to be Geologist of the State. Mr. S. S. Buckman is 

 lecturing on geology at the Agricultural College, Cirencester, pending the appoint- 

 ment of a permanent successor to Professor Allen Harker. The professor is 

 expected to reside in college and to lecture on geology, botany, and zoology. 

 Applications may be sent to the Principal. 



The Hayden Medal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia has 

 been awarded to Professor G. A. Daubree, the well-known author of " Geologie 

 Experimental " ; Professor Daubree was born in 1814. The University of Cam- 

 bridge has awarded the Sedgwick Prize in Geology to Mr. Henry Woods. The 

 subject for 1898 is "The Glacial Deposits of East Anglia." Mr. Philip Lake has 

 received a grant of £50 from the Worts Travelling Scholars' Fund ; he will 

 investigate the distribution of the trilobites in Russia and Sweden. Mr. Malcolm 

 Laurie has been appointed to the Cambridge University table in the Zoological 

 Station at Naples for three months. The Regia Lyncei Academia has conferred a 

 medal and diploma of foreign membership on Professor James Hall, of Albany, N.Y. 



It is proposed to erect a memorial tablet in St. Ninian's Cathedral to the late 

 Dr. F. Buchanan White. Subscriptions to this end should be sent to Dean 

 Rorison, Perth ; or to Henry Coates, Pitcullen House, Perth. Dr. White's 

 "Flora of Perthshire," a work on which he had been engaged for some years, 

 is left in an almost completed condition. 



Mr. Brock, R.A., has finished his model of the statue of Sir Richard Owen, 

 which is to be placed in the Natural History Museum. It is said by those familiar 

 with Owen's features to be a perfect likeness. The model will be seen in this year's 

 Academy. The subscription list is not yet full, and Mr. Percy Sladen, of the 

 Linnean Society, Burlington House, will be glad to hear from those interested. 



I We understand that there is a vacancy in the Museum at Singapore, for which 

 a curator is required. The Museum has been in existence about eight years, and 

 Mr. William Davison was the first curator. A collection of various specimens of 

 natural history had been made by Mr. James Collins previously, and this formed 

 the nucleus of the exhibitions in the museum. Mr. Davison died in 1893, and was 

 succeeded by Dr. Haviland, who resigned the post in a year, since when a clerk has 



