NEWS OF UNIVERSITIES, MUSEUMS, AND 

 SOCIETIES. 



Of the 250 students enrolled this Session at University College, Aberystwith, 

 nearly one-third are women. 



Mr. E. E. Prince, M.A., Professor of Zoology in St. Mungo's College, Glasgow, 

 has been appointed Commissioner and General Inspector of Fisheries in Canada. 



Dr. R. von Wettstein has been appointed Professor of Botany in the German 

 University of Prague, Bohemia. 



Mr. W. F. Smeeth, B.A., of Dublin University and the Royal College of 

 Science, London, has been appointed Demonstrator of Petrology and Mineralogy in 

 the University of Sydney. 



Mr. George W. Card, Assistant-Demonstrator in Geology at the Royal 

 College of Science, London, has been appointed Curator and Mineralogist to the 

 Geological Survey of New South Wales. 



Dr. George A. Koenig has been appointed Professor of Chemistry in the 

 Michigan Mining School, Houghton. Dr. Koenig is well known as one of the first 

 mineralogists in the United States, and was formerly attached to the University of 

 Pennsylvania. 



Dr. F. H. Hatch has resigned his appointment on the Geological Survey of 

 Great Britain, and has gone to seek his fortune in the auriferous districts of the 

 Transvaal. 



The University of Cape Town has been admitted to affiliation with the Univer- 

 sity of Cambridge. This is the second of the Colonial Universities thus affiliated, 

 the other being that of New Zealand. 



During the completion of the new buildings for the Durham College of Science, 

 the Natural History Society of Newcastle-on-Tyne has lent one of the corridors in 

 its Museum for the use of the practical classes in General Biology and Botany. The 

 Botanical Department of the College has been re-constituted, the former lecturer, 

 Mr. M. C. Potter, this Session attaining to the rank of Professor. 



The annual conferring of degrees at the Royal University of Ireland took place 

 on October 28. A conversazione was held in the evening at which a numerous 

 company, including the Lord Lieutenant, attended. Besides musical and other 

 attractions there were exhibits in Natural Science by Professors O'Reilly and Cole, 

 who showed rock-specimens, and by Professor Haddon, who showed photographs of 

 great anthropological interest, taken on a recent visit to the Aran Islands. The Royal 

 University is only an examining body, but this annual gathering fosters a social 

 feeling among its graduates. Something of the same kind might be of advantage to 

 the University of London. 



