NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES. MUSEUMS, AND 

 SOCIETIES. 



THE University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, is soliciting subscriptions to 

 provide a suitable and permanent Hall of Residence for the women students 

 of the College. There are at present 40 women in residence, temporarily 

 provided for in lodging-houses superintended by the LadyPrincipal. 



The second Semester of the new Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, 

 California, began on February 2. During the first Semester there were 490 students, 

 no being women, and no less than 329 being residents in the State of California. 

 The Engineering classes seem to have been most successful, while the classes for 

 Natural Science were very small, except in Physiology. The President of the 

 University is the well-known zoologist, Prof. David S. Jordan. 



Mr. J. J. Lister, M.A., has been appointed Demonstrator in Animal Morphology 

 in the University of Cambridge, in succession to Mr. S. F. Harmer, M.A., who is 

 now Superintendent of the Museum of Zoology. 



The official opening of the "Laboratory for Lacustrine Biology," founded by 

 Dr. Otto Zacharias at Plon, between Kiel and Lubeck, is announced for April ist. 

 We hope next month to give some account of the Institution. 



Subscriptions towards several memorials are being solicited. At Cambridge, a 

 portrait of the Professor of Physiology, Dr. Michael Foster, Sec. R.S., is to be 

 presented either to Trinity College, or to the University, by a committee of which 

 Dr. Lea (Gonville and Caius College) is Secretary. At Cambridge, also, the 

 Professor of Geology, Mr McKenny Hughes, F.R.S., is collecting a fund for the 

 benefit of the widow of his late assistant, Mr. Thomas Roberts, F.G.S. The 

 Royal College of Science. London, will shortly decide upon the form of a memorial 

 to the late Sir Warington W. Smyth, F.R.S., for which nearly /'300 has already been 

 subscribed. At Breslau, geologists will honour the memory of the late Professor 

 Ferdinand von Roemer by placing a marble bust in the Geological Institute of the 

 University. 



According to the Geological Magazine, the Earl of Ducie has just erected at 

 Churchill, Oxfordshire, an appropriate roughly-hewn monument of Oolitic ragstone 

 to the memory of William Smith, the " Father of English Geology," who was born 

 at that village in 1769. 



We have often heard from specialists expressions of disapproval of the meagre 

 facilities afforded them for the use of the great collections in the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. Both on personal 

 visits and in correspondence we, too, have met with some disappointment. We 

 cannot, therefore, do better than quote from Dr. .\lexander Agassiz's latest Annual 

 Report (1890-91), which shows how the Curator himself appreciates these difficulties, 



