NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 

 SOCIETIES. 



Professor C. H. Tyler Townsend, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, has been 

 appointed Curator of the Museum and Institute, Kingston, Jamaica. 



Mr. L. J. Spencer, B.A., of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, is the successful 

 candidate in the recent examination for the vacant Assistantship in the Mineralogical 

 Department of the British Museum. Mr. Spencer was awarded the Harkness 

 Scholarship last June, and before entering upon his appointment will spend the 

 remainder of this year in visiting the Museums and Universities of the Continent. 



The Scientific Library of the late Professor J. S. Newberry, has been present ed 

 as a memorial to the Geological Department of Columbia College, New York. 



A VALUABLE coucise report on the Marine Biological Laboratories of Europe, 

 by Dr. Bashford Dean, appears in the July and August numbers of the American 

 Naturalist. 



According to Indian Engineering, a wealthy citizen of Calcutta has offered a sum 

 of money for the purpose of building a library in the Zoological Gardens of that 

 city. The new laboratory at the Gardens is completed, and will shortly be ready 

 for use. 



The first of a series of Stratigraphical Memoirs, published by the Geological 

 Survey, was on the Pliocene Deposits of Britain, by Mr. Clement Reid, and was 

 issued in 1890. Now a further instalment has been published, in two volumes, on 

 the Jurassic Rocks of Yorkshire, by Mr. C. Fox-Strangways. These works 

 summarise our knowledge on the various formations and their subdivisions, and 

 they contain full lists of the fossils. 



The Annual Report of the Madras Museum, 1892-93, records, among other 

 additions, the mounting of a stuffed specimen of the rare shark, Rhinodon typicus, 

 cast ashore at Madras in 1889. A figure is given. During the year the Superinten- 

 dent has visited the corundun deposits, and collected a series of Cretaceous fossils 

 near Pondicherry. A collection of ammonites has been sent to Vienna, for study by 

 Dr. W. Waagen. 



The Annual Report of the British Museum for 1892 has been issued. The 

 Director of the Natural History Departments states that the building of a temporary 

 room for the accommodation of the Cetacea is under contemplation ; and special 

 allusion is made to the inconvenience caused by the want of a lecture room. The 

 Swiney Lectures on Geology, by Professor Nicholson, will be delivered this year in 

 the Lecture Theatre of the neighbouring South Kensington Museum. The subject 

 is the Bearing of Geology on the Geographical Distribution of Plants and Animals, 

 and the course commences on October 2. 



