No. 389.] NEWS. 457 
The British government has established a botanical garden and 
experiment station at Uganda, Central Africa, under the directorship 
of Alexander Whyte. 
Dr. J. Gaule, professor of debe in the University of Ziirich, 
has resigned his position. 
At a recent meeting of the Board of P of the Marine 
Biological Laboratory of Canada it was resolved to proceed at once 
with the construction of a floating station, to be ready for occupa- 
tion early in June, and for the coming summer it will be located at 
St. Andrews. The Board was enlarged by the addition of Dr. A. B. 
MacCallum, of Toronto University. The executive officers are Pro- 
fessor E. E. Prince, Director, one Professor D. P. Penhallow, Secre- 
tary-Treasurer. 
The University of Cambridge has awarded the Walsingham medal 
to J. Graham Kerr for his paper on the life history of Lepidosiren. 
Dr. O. Seydel, for some years lektor in anatomy in the University 
of Amsterdam, and well known for his researches on the organ of 
Jacobson, has resigned and has returned to Germany. 
The litigation over the Nobel bequest has come to an end, and 
there is now about $7,000,000 available for prizes. There will be 
five of these to be awarded annually, with a value of about $40,000 
each. 
The University of Aberdeen has under consideration the formation 
of loan collections of natural history to be suitable for instruction in 
schools. These are to be loaned to teachers, who will use them in 
their classes and be responsible for their safe return. Similar collec- 
tions would be of great value in certain regions of the United States, 
and if we remember aright the University of Illinois at one time had 
a similar plan under consideration, if not in actual operation. 
Appointments: Dr. Angelo Andres, formerly professor of general 
and agricultural zodlogy in the higher agricultural school at Milan, 
has been called to the chair of zodlogy in the University of Parma. 
—R. T. Baker, curator of the Technological Museum at Sydney, 
New South Wales.— Elmer D. Ball, assistant entomologist in the 
Colorado Experiment Station. — Dr. F. J. Becker, of Prag, professor 
of mineralogy in the University of Vienna. — Dr. J. Behrens, bacteri- 
ologist at Berlin. — Dr. P. Berggren, Siete of botany in the Uni- 
