NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 

 SOCIETIES. 



Dr. A. von Mojsisovics has become Professor of Zoology in the University of 

 Graz ; Dr. R. Kohler, Professor of Zoology in the Faculty of Sciences at Lyon ; 

 Dr. Eugene Canu, Director of the "Station Aquicole" (Fish and Fisheries) of 

 Boulogne-sur-Mer ; Dr. Pechuel-Loesche, Professor of Physiology at the University 

 of Erlangen ; Dr. A. N. Berlese, Professor of Botany at the Camerino University ; 

 Mr. W. G. P. Ellis, additional Demonstrator in Botany to the University of Cam- 

 bridge. Professor Dr. K. Weierstrass has been made a member of the Academy of 

 Sciences of Paris in the room of Dr. Kummer. Dr. H. Simroth, of Leipzig, has 

 been appointed Extraordinary Professor. We have the best authority for stating 

 that Dr. Branco, of Tubingen, is to be succeeded neither by G. Steinmann nor by 

 R. Brauns, as has been widely reported, but by Professor E. Koken, of Konigsberg. 

 Professor Brauns goes to Giessen. 



Dr. Hanitsch has been appointed Curator of the Singapore Museum, thus 

 vacating the post of Demonstrator of Zoology at University College, Liverpool. 

 Professor Oliver Wolcott Gibbs, the well-known chemist, succeeds Professor Marsh 

 as President of the New York Academy of Sciences for the next six years. 



The following appointments have recently been made known officially in the 

 Geological Survey : — xMfred Harker and Herbert Kynaston join the Geological 

 Survey of Scotland, replacing the late William Topley and Edward Greenly, retired. 

 Mr. Harker, it is understood, will not relinquish his duties at Cambridge. J. R. 

 Dakyns has been transferred from the Scottish to the English Survey, and this 

 accounts for the two vacancies in Scotland. The Museum of Practical Geology 

 loses its librarian, T. W. Newton. It is now open on Fridays. 



Sir William Vernon Harcourt has been elected the new trustee of the 

 British Museum. 



On May 29 Mr. William Carruthers, of the Botanical Department, British 

 Museum (Natural History), will bid farewell to his colleagues, and enter upon his 

 non-official life. Mr. Carruthers has been for so long identified with the department 

 that it is difficult to realise that he will still be in the flesh though absent. Mr. 

 George Murray will succeed him as head of the department. 



This is but the beginning of a series of changes at the Cromwell Road estab- 

 lishment, the new Treasury minute, with respect to age-limit, acting rather sweep- 

 ingly at the Museum. We are not at liberty to make known these changes at 

 present, official announcement not yet having been made. 



A Central News telegram from Brussels states that negotiations have been 

 opened for an International University Extension scheme. It is proposed that some 

 Oxford professors should deliver a series of lectures in Brussels, while some 

 Belgian professors should deliver addresses in Oxford. 



The arrangements for the summer meeting of University Extension students at 

 Oxford, which will take place during August, include lectures by Professor Green, 

 Professor Odling, Dr. Kimmins, Dr. Fison, Dr. Wade, Mr. Carus- Wilson, Mr. G. C. 

 Bourne, Mr. J. E. Marsh, and Mr. Percy Groom, accompanied by classes for 

 practical work. 



