NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 

 SOCIETIES. 



Professor Baldwin Spencer, of Melbourne, is spending his vacation this year 

 in Europe, leave of absence having been extended until December. 



Dr. W. Deecke, the well-known palseontologist of Greifswald, has been 

 appointed extraordinary Professor of Palaeontology in the University of that city. 



Mr. H. Yule Oldham, Lecturer in Geography in the Owens College, 

 Manchester, succeeds Mr. J. Y. Buchanan as Lecturer at Cambridge. 



Mr. E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., has been appointed Hope Professor and Curator 

 of Entomology in the University of Oxiord, in succession to the late Professor 

 Westwood. 



Mr. W. Fisher, late of the Department of Forestry in India, has been 

 appointed Assistant Professor of Forestry in the Royal College, Cooper's Hill. 



The honour of knighthood has been conferred upon Dr. B. W. Richardson, 

 F.R.S. The University of Durham has conferred the Honorary Degree of D.C.L. 

 upon Sir Henry H. Howorth, F.R.S. 



The University of Pennsylvania conferred, on May lo, the honorary degree of 

 " Doctor of Science " on Daniel Garrison Brinton, M.D., LL.D., of Philadelphia, 

 Professor of Ethnology in the Academy of Natural Sciences of that city and of 

 American Archaeology in the University of Pennsylvania, in recognition of his 

 numerous contributions to linguistics, ethnology and American archaeology. 



The University of Dorpat, now Jurjeff, is beginning to issue its publications, 

 according to the Imperial decree, in the Russian language. We have just received 

 what appears to be an important thesis on the development of the carpus and tarsus 

 in mammals, illustrated by three beautiful plates ; but the work is not accompanied 

 even by an abstract in French or German, and it will thus be of little service to the 

 majority of anatomists interested in the subject. 



According to Indian Engineering, a Committee for the establishment of a Pasteur 

 Institute in the Punjab Himalaya has held its first meeting at Lahore, when a 

 working scheme was decided upon, and it was determined, in the first instance, to 

 ascertain from the Government of India the conditions under which a Pasteur 

 Institute, supported by the public, could be amalgamated with the Imperial 

 Bacteriological Laboratory which is to be transferred from Poona to the Punjab 

 Himala)a. 



