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NEWS 
THE following appointments are announced :—Dr A. A. Kanthack to be 
professor of pathology, and J. Graham Kerr to be demonstrator of animal mor- 
phology, in the University of Cambridge ; Dr A. W. Sheen to be demonstrator of 
anatomy in the medical department of University College, Cardiff ; Dr Max von 
Frey, of Leipzig, to be professor of physiology in the High School of Zurich ; Dr 
W. Rothert, of Kazan, to be professor of botany and director of the physiological 
division of the botanical department of the University of Charkow ; Henry S. 
Pritchett, of Washington University, St Louis, to be superintendent of the U.S. 
Coast and Geodetic Survey ; William S. Carter to be professor of physiology in 
the University of Texas; Dr Arthur Allin to be professor of psychology in 
Colorado University ; Dr Francis Kennedy to be demonstrator in experimental 
psychology in Princeton University. 
Str ARCHIBALD GEIKIE has been appointed Romanes Lecturer at Oxford for 
1898. 
Dr Hans Motiscu of Prague intends to spend the coming winter in botanical 
research at Buitenzorg, Java. 
Dr ArtHuR WILLEY has returned to Cambridge, where he proposes to 
investigate his collections during the winter. 
THE tenth annual meeting of the Geological Society of America will be held 
in M‘Gill University, Montreal, at the end of December. 
LerrErs from Mr C. W. Andrews announce his safe arrival in Christmas 
Island, where he has already made some progress in collecting. 
WE are pleased to learn from Sir Frederick M‘Coy that our announcement of 
his retirement from his professorship in the University of Melbourne is premature. 
‘THE Louisiana Society of Naturalists’ has been founded at New Orleans to 
investigate systematically the fauna and flora of the State of Louisiana, which has 
hitherto been much neglected. 
THE new building for the Radcliffe Library at Oxford is to be towards the 
western end of the south front of the University Museum, that is to say, the end 
where the chemical laboratories are. 
A Laxporatory for Experimental Psychology has, says ‘the Psychological 
Review, been opened in the Illinois Eastern Hospital for the Insane, at 
Hospital, I1l., under the direction of Dr W. O. Krohn. 
AccorDING to Science, the University of the State of New York, following the 
plan it has adopted of lending to the schools libraries and pictures, offers to make 
loans of specimens of natural history from the State collections. 
Tue Annual Report of the Preston Scientific Society for 1896-97 records the 
accession of more than one hundred members during the year. Sections for 
technical scientific work have been formed, and we look forward to interesting 
results. 
