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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



workers. With !Mason passes one of 

 the founders of the Anthropological 

 Society of Washington in 1879, in the 

 activities of which he took a most 

 prominent part while health lasted, 

 serving as its president from 1893 to 

 1895. His associates will miss his cor- 

 dial greeting, his fatherly advice and 

 encouragement, his tender sympathy, 

 the cheering atmosphere tliat one al- 

 ways felt when in his presence. In 

 time to come Mason will be recognized 

 as the pioneer in the classification and 

 analysis of the material culture of the 

 American aborigines. 



THE H. K. GUSHING LABORATORY 

 OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDIGINE 

 OF WESTERN RESERVE 

 UNIVERSITY 

 The school of medicine of the West- 

 ern Reserve University, wliich is one 



of those in tliis country maintaining 

 the highest standards, has been fortu- 

 nate in receiving from Mr. H. M. 

 Hanna and Colonel Oliver H. Payne a 

 gift of $200,000— to which they have 

 just added .$17,000 towards the endow- 

 ment — for a laboratory of experimental 

 medicine, named in honor of one of the 

 distinguished professors of the school 

 in its early days. The laboratory was 

 dedicated on November 20, when, after 

 a welcome by President Thwing, the 

 principal address was made by William 

 H. Welch, M.D., LL.D., professor of 

 pathology in the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity. An address was also made by 

 George Neil Stewart, D.Sc, M.D., pro- 

 fessor of experimental medicine and 

 director of the new laboratory. 



The new laboratory adjoins the main 

 building and the physiological labora- 

 tory building of the Medical School. 



The original building of the Western Reserve Medical School, erected in 

 1844 for the Cleveland Medical College. Replaced in 1887 by the present main 

 building of the Western Reserve University Medical School. 



