324 Biochemical News, Notes and Comment [Jan. 



Honors. Award of prizes. Nobel prizes, for 1913 : In medi- 

 cine, to Dr. Charles Richet, prof. of physiology in the Univ. of 

 Paris, director of the Inst. Marey, in recognition of his work on 

 anaphylaxis; in chemistry, to Prof. Alfred Werner of the Univ. of 

 Zürich. — The Paris Acad. of Med. has awarded the Chevillion prize 

 of 1500 francs to Dr. R. Roheison, of Paris, for his account of a 

 method of biochemical diagnosis of cancerous affections. — Awards of 

 1500 francs, each, have been made to M. Marquis for his memoir on 

 mercuric chlorid in surgery, and to F. Besangon and S. L. de Jong, 

 for their treatise on the examination of sputa. — By recommenda- 

 tion of the commit. on the award of the Hodgkins prize of $1,500, 

 for the best treatise On the relation of atmospheric air to tubercu- 

 losis, which was offered by the Smithsonian Inst'n in connection 

 with the Int. Cong. on Tuberculosis, in Washington (1908), the 

 prize has been equally divided between Dr. Guy Hinsdale, Hot 

 Springs, Va., for his paper on Tuberculosis in relation to atmos- 

 pheric air, and Dr. Adolphus Knopf, New York City, for his treatise 

 on the Relation of atmospheric air to tuberculosis. 



AwARDS OF MEDALS. The Special board for biology and geology 

 at Cambridge Univ. has adjudged the Walsinghani medal for 19 13 

 to Mr. Franklin Kidd, fellow of St. John's, for his essay On the 

 action of carbon dioxid in the moist seed in maturing, resting, and 

 germinating conditions. 



The Royal Society has awarded a Royal medal to Prof. E. H. 

 Starling for his contributions to the advancement of physiology, 

 and a Davey medal to Prof. R. Meldola for his work in synthetic 

 organic chemistry. 



The fourth annual award of the Willard Gibbs Medal will be 

 made by the Chicago Sect. of the Amer. Chem. Soc'y to Dr. Ira 

 Remsen, of Johns Hopkins University. The previous recipients of 

 this medal are Prof. Svante Arrhenius, Prof. Theodore W. Rich- 

 ards and Dr. Leo H. Baekeland. The formal presentation will be 

 made to Dr. Remsen at the May meeting of the Chicago Sect. of 

 the Amer. Chem. Soc'y. Jury of award : Mr. William Brady, Mr. 

 G. Thurnauer, Dr. E. C. Franklin, Dr. W. R. Whitney, Prof. J. H. 

 Long, Prof. J. Stieglitz, Prof. Alexander Smith, Prof. W. A. 

 Noyes, Mr. E. B. Bragg, Mr. S. T. Mather, Prof. W. H. Walker 

 and Prof. T. W. Richards. 



