1913] General 115 



nutrition- Scripps Inst, of Biolog. Research: Dr. F. B. Sumner, 

 biologist. 



Univ. of 111. Med. Seh. (Chicago) : Dr. Geo. P. Dreyer, prof. of 

 physiology; Mr. /. Craig Small, assis. in physiol. chemistry; Dr. Ber- 

 nard Fantus, prof. of pharmacology ; Dr. Edgar D. Coolidge, prof. of 

 materia medica and therapeutics. (See Bioch. Bull., 1913, ii, pp. 575 

 and 578.) 



Univ. of Leeds: Dr. Charles Crowther, prof. of agric. chemistry, in 

 Charge of the work in animal nutrition; Dr. H. W. Dudley (Herter 

 Laboratory), lecturer in biochemistry. 



Univ. of Leipzig: Dr. Walter Kruse (Bonn), prof. of hygiene and 

 director of the Hygienic Inst., as successor to Prof. Hofmann. 



Univ. of Neb. Med. Seh. (Omaha) : Dr. Irving S. Cutter, prof. of 

 biolog. chemistry; Dr. A. E. Günther, prof. of pharmacology. 



Univ. of Penn.: Dr. Howard B. Lewis (Sheff. Sei. Seh., Yale), 

 instr. in physiol. chemistry (Seh. of Med.) ; Dr. Hermann Prinz, prof. 

 of materia medica and therapeutics (Seh. of Dentistry). 



Univ. of Pittsburgh: Mr. Orville J. Walker, assis. in physiology 

 and pharmacology. 



Univ. of Vienna: Prof. Julius Mauthner, director of the Medico- 

 chemical Inst., vice Prof. E. Ludwig retired; Prof. Hugo Salomon, 

 director of the med. clinic, vice Dr. Carl von Noorden resigned. 



Univ. of Wis. : Dr. Stephen M. Babcock, prof. emeritus of agric. 

 chemistry; Dr. E. R. Miller (Ala. Polytech. Inst.) acting assis. prof. 

 of plant chemistry. 



Western Reserve Univ. : Dr. Roy G. Pearce, instr. in physiology 

 (promotion). 



Alvarenga prize. The Col. of Physicians, Phila., announces 

 that the next award of the Alvarenga prize, being the income for 

 one year of the bequest of the lata Senor Alvarenga and amounting 

 to about $180, will be made on July 14, 19 14, provided that an essay 

 w^orthy of the prize shall have been ofifered. Essays intended for com- 

 petition may be on any subject in medicine, but cannot have been pub- 

 lished. They must be typevv^ritten, and if written in a language other 

 than English, should be accompanied by an EngHsh translation, and 

 must be received by the secretary of the College on or before May i, 

 1 9 1 4. Each essay must be sent without signature, but must be plainly 

 marked v^ith a motto and be accompanied by a sealed envelope hav- 

 ing on its outside the motto of the paper and within the name and 

 address of the author. It is a condition of the competition that the 



