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NEWS 
Tue following appointments are announced :—Dr Lehman Nitsche to be 
keeper of the department of Anthropology in the La Plata Museum, in succession 
to Dr Ten Kate ; Dr P. Zwaardemaker to be professor of physiology in the 
University of Utrecht; Dr Carl Zelinka to be professor of zoology in the 
University of Czernowitz ; W. L. Bray to be professor of botany in the Univer- 
sity of Texas ; H. L. Jones to be associate professor of botany in Oberlin College ; 
Dr Hans Reusch, director of the geological survey of Norway, to be Sturgis- 
Hooper professor of geology in Harvard University, for the season 1897-98. 
WE have had occasion to refer to the good work that has lately been done in 
the Bootle Museum. The Committee did well when, some three years ago, they 
engaged Mr H. C. Chadwick as museum assistant. We therefore regret to learn 
that they can no longer afford to retain his services. 
THE new Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences was opened 
early in October, when President Eliot of Harvard delivered an address, 
Dr ALEXANDER Hint, Master of Downing College, has been elected Vice- 
Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. 
Tue Eighth International Geological Congress is to meet in Paris in 1900, the 
year of the Exhibition. The visit to Vienna, which was to have taken place in 
that year, is postponed to 1903. 
REUTER announces that Nossilor has arrived at Tiumen from the Kara Sea. 
He has explored the Yalmal peninsula, and discovered a shorter waterway 
between Siberia and Europe, and one free from the sea ice. 
Ir is proposed to decorate the Zoological Park at Washington with bronze 
groups of Indians and wild animals. Mr Edward Kemeys will probably receive 
this commission, which will put on record many vanishing types of animal life. 
THE Botanical Gazette announces that the Smithsonian Institution has ap- 
pointed a commission, with Dr V. Havard as chairman, to collect information 
concerning the medicinal qualities of the plants of the United States of America. 
Mr R. C. Curisti£ has presented to the Owens College, Manchester, his share 
of the estate of the late Sir Joseph Whitworth, estimated at about £50,000. The 
fund is to be devoted to a new building with which the name of Whitworth can 
be associated. 
AccorDINnG to the Athenewm, it is proposed to establish at Swansea a branch 
University College in association with either Cardiff or Aberystwyth. This town 
already possesses an important library and museum in the Royal Institution of 
South Wales. 
Tue Academy of Sciences of Berlin has granted a sum of 3000 marks to Prof. 
B. Hagen, Frankfurt, for the publication of an anthropological atlas ; 1500 marks 
to Prof. Kohen, Greifswald, for mineralogical researches ; and 800 marks to Prof. 
R. Bonnet, Greifswald, for anatomical work. 
Science states that plans have already been made for the new building of the 
American Geographical Society, New York, although the site has not yet been 
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