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rado, which he explored. — The commit- 

 tee in charge of a fund for a memorial 

 to the late Dr. Andrew J. McCosh 

 announces that more than $100,000 has 

 been subscribed. The fund will be de- 

 voted to some portion of the new build- 

 ings of the Presbyterian Hospital, with 

 the surgical service of which iJr. Mc- 

 Cosh was identified. — It is proposed to 

 endow as a memorial to the late Dr. 

 William T. Bull an institution for 

 surgical research to be connected with 

 the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 

 Columbia University. 



The Royal Academy of Stockholm 

 has presented Mr. Thomas A. Edison 



with its Adelskiold gold medal for his 

 inventions in connection with the 

 phonograph and the incandescent light. 

 This medal is conferred once in ten 

 years. — The ambassadorship to Great 

 Britain has been offered to President 

 Eliot after his retirement from the 

 presidency of Harvard University, but 

 it is said that he is not likely to accept. 



It is announced that President Taft 

 has requested Surgeon General Wyman 

 to draw up a tentative plan for the 

 consolidation under one bureau of the 

 agencies exercised by the federal gov- 

 ernment for the preservation of the 

 public healtn. 



