NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 

 SOCIETIES. 



Mr. John C. Willis has left Cambridge for Glasgow, where he takes up the 

 appointments of " Senior Assistant in Botany" at the University, and Lecturer in 

 Botany at Queen Margaret's College. Mr. J. Elfreth Watkins, for nine years 

 Curator of the Department of Transportation at the National Museum, Washington, 

 has lately left for Chicago to take charge of the Department of Industrial Arts at 

 the New Columbian Museum. It was Mr. Watkins who arranged the remarkable 

 exhibit of the Pennsylvania Railroad at the World's Fair. Dr. O. Mattirolo has 

 been appointed Extraordinary Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanic 

 Garden at Bologna. Dr. F. Dahl has been appointed Professor of Zoology, and 

 Dr. F. Shiitt Professor of Botany, at Kiel University. Mr. Walter Garstang, M.A., 

 who was recently elected to a Research Fellowship at Lincoln College, Oxford, 

 has resigned his post on the Plymouth Staff of the Marine Biological Associa- 

 tion, and will leave Plymouth towards the end of May. We understand that 

 Mr. Garstang intends to devote himself to his Fellowship researches and to 

 the early completion of an illustrated descriptive work upon the littoral zoology 

 of the British Isles. 



A SHORT time ago the Berlin Aquarium built a Zoological Station at Rovigno, 

 of which Dr. Hermes is Director. The internal arrangements are now so far com- 

 pleted that there is room for six students. Two tables are at the disposal of the 

 German Government, two at that of the Prussian " Kultusministerium," and two at 

 that of the Berlin Aquarium. Students may be of any nationality. We regret to 

 learn, through the American Naturalist, that the Biological Laboratory founded 

 at Milwaukee by Mr. AUis, has had to close in consequence of the hard times. 

 The surplus copies of the five Annual Reports upon the Liverpool Marine 

 Biological Station formerly on Puffin Island (1888 to 1892, the complete set) have 

 been collated and bound up to form an 8vo volume of about 180 pages, illustrated 

 with cuts and plates, and containing the original lithographed covers. Thirty copies 

 of this volume are now offered at 3s. each nett (post free), and may be obtained from 

 Mr. I. C. Thompson, 4 Lord Street, or Professor Herdman, University College, 

 Liverpool. 



The Director-General of the Geological Survey is arranging at the Museum 

 of Practical Geology a series illustrative of the submarine deposits now forming off 

 the coasts of the British Isles. This should prove of great value and interest to all 

 naturalists. 



Under the auspices of that useful body, the A. W. P. L. (for which see Natural 

 Science, vol. iv., p. 254) some short courses of lectures on Natural History are being 

 given in the Natural History Museum in the Cromwell Road. These courses are 

 specially intended for children, and are followed by rambles in the Museum. The 

 fee for a course of six lectures is ten shillings. As the Trustees of the British 

 Museum provide one of their public galleries for a lecture-room, as well as screens, 



