NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 

 SOCIETIES. 



The following appointments have recently been made : — Mr. F. B. Stead, 

 of King's College, Cambridge, as naturalist to carry on the fishery investigations at 

 the Marine Biological Association at Plymouth ; Mr. T. V. Hodgson, as director's 

 assistant at the same place ; Bernard H. Woodward, as Curator of the Museum, 

 Perth, Western Australia ; Mr. C. French, jun., to the Entomological Branch of 

 the Department of Agriculture in Victoria ; Dr. R. Metzner, to the chair of Physio- 

 logy at Barcelona ; Dr. Hans Lenk, as Professor of Geology to Erlangen 

 University; Dr. E. Ihne, to the Technical High School of Darmstadt; Dr. Haecker, 

 as Assistant Professor in Zoology to the University of Freiburg-in-Breisgau ; Dr. 

 Strahl, as Professor and Director of the Anatomical Institute in Giessen ; Dr. 

 Hermann Credner, as full Professor of Historical Geology and Pala;ontology to 

 Leipzig University ; Dr. Dalla-Torre, as Assistant-Professor of Zoology to the 

 University of Innsbruck ; Dr. Max Verworn, as Professor of Physiology at Jena ; 

 Dr. Otto Jaekel as Prof.-Extraordinarius of Geology, in Berlin. Dr. Albert 

 Fleischmann is undertaking the duties of Professor Selenka at Erlangen during the 

 professor's temporary absence ; Dr. Selenka is nominated honorary Professor at 

 Munich. Dr. Duclaux has been elected President of the Pasteur Institute. 



The following news comes from America: — Professor E. J. Chapman has 

 resigned the chair of Geology and Mineralogy in Toronto University. Professor 

 F. L. Washburn has gone to the Oregon State University. Professor F. W. 

 Rane has resigned the chair of Agriculture at the University of West Virginia 

 to take that of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture. Professor G. E. Morrow 

 has accepted the Presidency of the Oklahama Agricultural College at Stillwater. 

 Professor E. W. Doran has accepted the Presidency of Ozark College at Greenfield, 

 Missouri. Professor H.J. Waters has been elected Director of the Missouri Experi- 

 ment Station. Professor F. B. Mumford has been appointed Professor of Agriculture 

 in the Missouri State University ; Dr. Walter B. Rankin and Dr. C. F. W. McClure, 

 Professors of Biology in Princeton College; H. B. Kiimmel, Assistant-Geologist in 

 the Geological Survey of New Jersey (Trenton) ; Dr. G. P. Grimsley, of Columbus, 

 Ohio, as Professor of Geology and Natural History in Washburn College, Topeka, 

 Kansas ; Dr. W. S. Strong, of the University of Colorado, as Professor of Geology 

 and Physics in Bates College ; W. D. Matthew, of Columbia College, as Assistant 

 in Vertebrate Palaeontology in the American Museum of Natural History. 



We note the following botanical appointments :— Mr. T. H. Stephen, formerly of 

 Kew, and lately Curator of the Lai Bagh Botanic Gardens. Bangalore, Mysore, to be 

 Superintendent of the Public Gardens at Nagpur, Central Provinces, in succession 

 to the late Mr. J. R. Ward, who died last January ; F. Reinitzer, of Prague, to be 

 Prof.-Extraordinarius at Graz. In America, the Botanical Gazette records the 

 appointments of Dr. R. H. True to be instructor in pharmacognostical botany at 

 the Wisconsin University ; Dr. W. A. Setchell to a professorship in botany in 

 the California University ; and Dr. J. E. Humphrey to be lecturer in botany at the 

 Johns Hopkins University. 



Some friends of Mr. Joseph Thomson being desirous of erecting a memorial 

 monument over his grave at Thornhill, a subscription has been opened for that 



