NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 

 SOCIETIES. 



Miss Maria M. Ogilvie, B.Sc, well-known for her researches in the geology 

 of the Tyrolese Alps, has been promoted to the degree of D.Sc. in the University 

 of London. 



Dr. William H. Howell, of the Harvard Medical School, has been appointed 

 Professor of Physiology in Johns Hopkins University ; and the vacant chair of 

 Anatomy in the same University has been accepted by Dr. Franklin P. Mall, late of 

 Chicago. 



Dr. Spyridon Miliarakis, curator at the Athens Botanical Museum, has been 

 appointed Professor of Botany at the University ; and Dr. Ed. Fischer has been 

 appointed extraordinary Professor of Botany at the University of Berne. 



Dr. U. Dammer and Dr. P. Hennings have been appointed assistant-curator 

 and curator respectively in the Berlin Botanic Garden, and Dr. M. Gurke a curator 

 in the Botanic Museum. 



Mr. F. W. Gamble, B.Sc, has been appointed Assistant Lecturer and 

 Demonstrator of Zoology in the Owens College, Manchester. Mr. H. B. Pollard, 

 M.A. (Oxon), has been elected to a Berkeley Research Fellowship in Zoology in the 

 same College. 



Dr. Giessler, assistant at the Botanical Institute of the Jena University, has 

 been appointed assistant at the Botanical Museum and Garden of the Gottingen 

 University in the place of Dr. Hallier, who, as noticed in a former number of 

 Natural Science, has become an assistant at the Buitenzorg Garden in Java. At 

 the same University (Gottingen), Dr. Dreyer, from St. Galle, takes the place of Dr. 

 Alfred Koch as assistant in the Institute of Plant Physiology. 



We regret to announce the retirement, on account of failing health, of Sir J. 

 William Dawson from the Principalship of McGill College, Montreal, an office he 

 has held for nearly forty years. While relieved of administrative duties, Sir William 

 hopes to be able to pursue with greater success his long-continued researches in 

 geology and palaeontology. 



The Royal Saxon Mining Academy in Freiberg has had attached to it since 

 1767 a " Mineralien-Niederlage," or commercial branch for the supply of specimens. 

 This is situated in the main building of the academy, and as a public office has been 

 under the supervision of the director. We have received what is to be the first 

 price list issued, written in remarkably good English, and showing that the mineral 

 productions of Saxony can be supplied at most reasonable terms. Both A. G. 

 Werner and A. Breithaupt have been the managers of this concern. Special stress 

 is laid on the necessity of addressing letters FreibErg, Saxony. 



