NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 

 SOCIETIES. 



The following appointments are announced :— Dr. Marshall Ward, Professor of 

 Botany at Cooper's Hill Engineering College, to be Professor of Botany at Cam- 

 bridge in place of the late Charles Babington ; James Wilson, Lecturer in Agriculture 

 at Aberystwyth, to be Fordyce Lecturer in Agriculture at Aberdeen University ; 

 F. F. Blackman, Demonstrator of Botany at Cambridge University, to be 

 a Fellow of St. John's; V. H. Blackman, to be Assistant in the Botanical 

 Department of the British Museum ; M. D. Hill, to be Junior Demonstrator in 

 Zoology at Owens College ; Thomas Midgley. son of the Curator of the Chadwick 

 Museum, Bolton, to be on the permanent staff as Assistant-Curator and Ta.xidermist ; 

 Dr. F. Mares, to be Professor of Physiology at the Bohemian University, Prague; 

 J. Gad, to be Professor of Physiology and Director of the Physiological Institute in 

 the German University, Prague ; Dr. M. von Lenhossek, of Warzburg, to be 

 Prosector in the Anatomical Institute at Tiibirgen ; Dr. Joseph Disse, of Halle, to 

 be Professor of Anatomy at Marburg; Dr. Beck, of the Geological Survey' in 

 Leipzig, to be Professor at the Mining College of Freiberg, i.S. ; Dr. Hillebrand, to 

 be Assistant-Professor of Experimental Psjchology at Vienna ; Dr. Schuchardt! to 

 the newly-founded Professorship of Psychiatry at Rostcck ; Dr. J. Wortmann, 

 Director of the Experiment Station in Plant Physiology at Geisenheim, to be 

 Professor; Dr. A. Rothpletz to be Extraordinary Professor of Geology and Paleon- 

 tology in Munich University ; Carl A. Redlich, as Curator of the Brunn Museum; 

 Dr. Dogiel, Professor of Anatomy at Tomsk, to be Professor in the University of 

 St. Petersburg; Professor F. Ficallei, of Cagliari, as Professor of Zoology at 

 Messina; Daniel F. MacDougal, to be Assistant-Professor of Botany in Minnesota 

 University ; H. Landes to be Professor of Geology in the Washington State 

 University ; Richard E. Dodge to be Instructor in Geography and Geology in the 

 Teachers' College, New York. Dr. Albert Mann has taken up work in Biology at 

 the Ohio Wesleyan University. Dr. W. Biedermann has gone to Graz University. 



The Burdett-Coutts' Scholarship in Geology, of Oxford University, has been 

 awarded to W. B. Prowse, of Pembroke. R. M. Brydone, of New College, has 

 been awarded the Scholarship which was not given last year, tenable for one year 

 only. 



A CURATOR is to be appointed for the Fielding Herbarium at Oxford. He will 

 be under the Professor of Botany, and will be paid by income arising from a 

 bequest of /900 under the will of the late Mrs. Fielding, and from other funds at 

 the disposal of the Fielding Curators. 



Minnesota University is building a laboratory for bacteriological, histological, 

 and pharmacological research. 



The late Sir Jerome Murch bequeathed £^0 to the Bath Literary and 

 Scientific Institution, of which he was sometime president. Colonel Chase has left 



