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WE learn with much pleasure from Science the election Prof. E. S. Holden to be President of the University of California, and Director of the Lick Observatory. Prof. Holden's resignation as Director of the Washburn Observatory at Madison, Wis., takes effect on January 1 next. His appointment as Director of the Lick Observatory will hardly be a matter of surprise to those who are aware that, as consulting astronomer, he has virtually had the direction of the work as it has progressed, visiting the site on Mount Hamilton in 1881, and again in 1883 and 1884. Very happily the choice both of the Lick trustees and of the regents of the University has fallen upon Prof. Holden. It is understood that, in his letter of resignation to the regents of the University of Wisconsin, he strongly urges the name of Prof. W. A. Rogers, of Harvard College Observatory, as his successor.