loo [February 



NEWS 



The following appointments are announced : — 



Jinta Hara, to be professor of zoology in the Agricultural College of Sapporo, 

 Hokkaido, Japan ; Masamuru Inalia, of Mayebaslii, to be professor of zoology in 

 Yamaguclii, Japan ; Dr Asajiro Oka, to Ije professor of zoology in the Higher 

 Normal School of Tokyo ; Dr W. Oi^hiilo, assistant in Gottingen University, to 

 be professor of pathological anatomy in the University of Missouri ; Dr Elisha 

 Gregory, Jr., to be instructor in histology and embryology in Harvard Medical 

 School ; Dr E. G. Lancaster to be professor of psychology and pedagogy at Colorado 

 College ; Dr W. H. R. Rivers, of St John's College, Cambridge, to be University 

 lecturer in experimental j)sycliology ; T. Strangeways Pigg to be demonstrator in 

 pathology in Cambridge University ; W. L. H. Duckworth of Jesus College, to 

 be lecturer in anthrojaology at Cambridge University ; " a person named Bowers, 

 from Martinsburg, W. Va.," to be Fish Commissioner of the U.S.A. ; J. G. Luch- 

 man, to be Government Botanist of Victoria ; Dr Alex. Henchel, of St Peters- 

 burg, to be assistant in the Botanical Institute of Odessa University ; Miss Julia 

 Snow, Ph.D. (Munich), to be instructor in botany in Michigan University ; 

 Edgar R. Cumings of Cornell University, to be instructor in geology in 

 Indiana University ; C. Knocker to be assistant in the Bristol Museum. 



Sir William Flower has been elected an Honorary Associate of the Belgian 

 Academy of Sciences. 



The British Medical Association will hold its sixty-sixth annual meeting at 

 Edinburgh from July 26-30. 



Mr a. C. Harms worth has lent the Windward to Lieut. Peary for his 

 expedition to the North Pole. 



A COLLECTION amounting to £9000 has been made towards the erection of a 

 Science Hall for Syracuse University. 



A Fisheries Exhibition will be held next summer in Bergen, and a similar 

 one in Aberdeen in the summer of 1 899. 



A fire recently destroyed the entire valuable collection, made by Domingo 

 Sanchez, in the Museum of Manilla, Philippine Islands. 



Richmond College, Virginia, has received a gift of £1000 from Mrs Geo. 

 Smeltz, of Hampton, Va., towards the cost of a Science Building. 



Dr Waldemar Lindgren, of the U.S. Geological Survey, is to deliver a 

 course of lectures on metallurgy and mining at Stanford University. 



Mr Wolf has been elected President of the Paris Academic des Sciences for 

 1898, and Mr Van Tieghem, the l^otanist, succeeds him as Vice-President. 



The valuable collection of Peruvian antiquities, made by Mr Nicholas Saenz, 

 has been purchased by the National Museum of Santiago, Chili, for £1400. 



The sixteenth annual meeting of the American Forestry Association was held 

 at Washington on December 8th. Its summer meeting will probably be held at 

 Boston. 



