NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 

 SOCIETIES. 



The German Anthropological Society holds its annual meeting at Ulm on 

 the 31st July. 



M. A. F. Batalin has been nominated Director of the Botanical Garden of 

 St. Petersburg in the room of the late E. Regel. 



The International Congress of Physiologists will take place at Liege, from the 

 28th to 31st of August. 



A NEW Zoological Museum is shortly to be built at St. Petersburg, and the 

 Imperial Academy has sent Dr. Pleske to inspect the principal museums of Europe 

 to report thereon. A paragraph in our last issue announced a similar enquiry on 

 the part of the Japanese Government. 



The Natural History Museum will shortly receive a piece of the skin, with 

 ■wool attached, ot the Mammoth. This specimen forms part of an exchange with 

 the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg, and comes from an individual discovered 

 in the province of Jakutsk, Siberia. 



The Imperial ukase requiring that all lectures given in Dorpat shall be 

 delivered in the Russian language, instead of in German as hitherto, comes into 

 force next year. This necessitates the resignation of several of the Professors, 

 including, among others. Professors Lemberg and Rosenberg, who hold the chairs 

 of Geology and Comparative Anatomy respectively. 



The National Chrysanthemum Society are expecting an interesting arrival 

 from New Zealand. Mr. John Earland, of Wellington, having raised some chrysan- 

 themums from seed, is anxious to obtain the Society's opinion on the blooms. He 

 ihas accordingly made arrangements to have them frozen in blocks of ice at the 

 meat-freezing works and forwarded to London in the meat steamer. As soon as the 

 ship arrives, a meeting of the General and Floral Committee is to be called to 

 •examine and report upon the flowers. 



The Professorship of Geology and Mineralogy at Breslau, left vacant by the 

 ■death of the late Professor F. A. Romer, is to be subdivided : The Professor 

 Ordinarius will occupy the chair of Petrology, and the Professor Extraordinarius 

 will have charge of the department of Palaeontology. It is considered probable 

 that Dr. Fritz Freeh, of Halle, one of the leaders of the younger school of German 

 .geologists, will receive the latter. Dr. Freeh is well known as the Monographer of 

 .the Triassic Corals, and as a writer on past zoological distribution. 



