1914] General 493 



Vanderbilt Univ. (Nashville, Tenn.) : Dr. /. W. Jobling (Co- 

 lumbia Univ.), prof. of pathol. 



West. Reserve Univ. (Cleveland, O.) : Dr. W. C. Alpers (trus- 

 tee, N. Y. Coli, of Pharm.), dean of the Seh. of Pharm, and prof.. 

 of pharm. 



West. Univ. (London, Can.) : Dr. F. R. Miller (dep't of 

 physiol., McGill Univ.), prof. of physiol. 



Prizes and medals. Winners of prizes. Camer on prize, 

 Univ. of Edinburgh: Prof. Paul Ehrlich, direc., path. inst., Frank- 

 fort, in recognition of his discovery of salvarsan and other contribu- 

 tions to med. science. — Emil Chr. Hansen prize: Prof. Jules Bordet, 

 direc.. Inst. Pasteur, Brabant. — Luden Howe prize, "Med. Soc, State 

 of N. Y. : Dr. M. J. Schoenherg, for his research on ocular anaphy- 

 laxis. — Howard T. Ricketts prize: Dr. /. H. Lewis, Univ. of Chi- 

 cago. — Gordon Wigan Fund, Univ. of Cambridge (5o£) : Mr. H. 

 V. Thompson, for investigations in organic ehem., including re- 

 search on the molec. weights of cellulose. 



The Paris Acad, of Sciences offers, for 19 15, the Pourat 

 prize of 1000 francs for a memoir on the relations between the 

 combined sugar of the blood and the protein constituents. 



AwARDS OF MEDALS. — C handler gold medal (first award) : Dr. 

 L. H. Baekeland, N. Y. City. — Fothergill gold medal. Med. Soc. of 

 London: Dr. John G. Adami, McGill Univ., for his work on pathol. 

 and its application to practical med. and surg. — Medal of the Nafl 

 Assoc. of Cotton Manufact.: Mr. A. T. Bradlee, for investigations 

 on the effects of moisture in testing cotton yarns and fabrics. — 

 Medal of the N. Y. Sect., Amer. Chem. Soc.: Prof. Moses Gomherg, 

 Univ. of Mich., for his work on the trivalence of carbon. — Willard 

 Gibbs medal, Chicago Sect., Amer. Chem. Soc. : Dr. Ira Remsen, 

 Johns Hopkins Univ. 



Medals of the Franklin Inst.^ State of Penn. : Elliott 

 Cresson Gold Medals, the highest award in its gift: Prof. Carl P. G. 

 Linde, Munich, in recognition of his investigations of processes for 

 the refrigeration and liquefaction of gases, and of his investigations 

 of machinery for applying these processes in the manufacture of ice 

 and for the purposes of cold storage. — Prof. E. F. Smith, in recog- 

 nition of his leading work in the field of electro-chemistry, of his 



