NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 

 SOCIETIES. 



We accidentally overlooked the name of Mr. William Fraser Hume in the list 

 of successful candidates for the degree of D.Sc. in the University of London this 

 year. We review Mr. Hume's thesis elsewhere. 



The honorary degree of Ph.D. has been conferred upon Mr. Arthur Gardiner 

 Butler, Assistant-Keeper of the Department of Zoology in the British Museum, 

 by the Western University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A. 



Dr. E. P. Ramsay, the curator of the Australian Museum, Sydney, is at present 

 incapacitated for work, and is not expected to return for three months. During his 

 absence the duties of the post are being performed by Mr. R. Etheridge, Junior. 



Mr. T. D. a. Cockerell, whose resignation of the Curatorship of the Jamaica 

 Museum we noticed some months ago, has been appointed Professor of Entomology, 

 Zoology, and Physiology in the New Mexico Agricultural College, Las Cruces, 

 New Mexico, U.S.A. 



Professor W. J. Sollas has been appointed on the Geological Survey of 

 Ireland, to carry on the petrological work, in the room of Mr. W. W. Watts, who 

 has been transferred to the Geological Survey department in London. Mr. Watts 

 now continues the examination and description of the Volcanic rocks of Great 

 Britain. 



Dr. a. Dendy, who has for the last four years been assistant to Professor W. B. 

 Spencer at Melbourne, has recently been appointed Professor of Biology in Canter- 

 bury College, New Zealand. At present, during Professor Spencer's visit to 

 England, Dr. Dendy is taking charge of all the biological work at Melbourne 

 University, but after February next his address will be Christchurch, N.Z. 



Mr. D. T. Macdougal, assistant in Botany at Purdue University, has been 

 appointed instructor in Plant Physiology at the University of Minnesota. Mis 

 Alice Eastwood has succeeded Mrs. Katherine Brandegree as curator of the 

 Herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences and as acting editor of Zoe. Dr. 

 J. M. Coulter, one of the editors of the Botanical Gazette, has left the Indiana 

 University to become President of Lake Forest University, Illinois, and has taken 

 with him his large herbarium, of which Mr. E. Uline has been appointed curator. 

 Dr. Hans Schinz has been appointed to succeed Dr. Cramer as Director of the 

 Botanic Gardens at Zurich ; and Dr. F. Kaunhowen becomes Assistant in the 

 Section of Fossil Botany in the Royal Prussian Geological Survey, Berlin. 



