1914] General 497 



Miscellaneous. Prof. C. R. Bardeen, Univ. of Wis. : Feb. 18, 

 annual address before the Univ. of Iowa chapter of Sigma Xi, on 

 The effect of physical and chemical agents on development. — Dr. 

 Alexis Carrel, Rocke feller Inst. : Apr. i, 8th lecture before the Rush 

 Soc, Phila., on Permanent active life of the tissues outside the 

 organism. — Prof. R. G. Harrison, Yale Univ. : Jan. 29, before the 

 Soc. for Biol. Research, Univ. of Pittsburgh, on The life of tissues 

 outside the organism. — Prof. F. G. Hopkins, Cambridge Univ. : 

 Oliver-Sharpey lectures, at the Royal Coli, of Physicians, London, 

 on Disturbances in the chemical reactions of the blood. — Prof. F. E. 

 Lloyd, McGill Univ. : April 4, before the Royal Can. Inst, of To- 

 ronto, on The artificial ripening of fruit; April 14, before the Clin. 

 Soc. of the Western Hosp. of Montreal, on Colloids and the ultra- 

 microscope. — Dr. Oswald Schreiner, U. S. Bur. of Soils: Feb. 11, 

 before the Sect. of Physics and Chem., Franklin Inst., Phila., on 

 The biochemistry of soil fertility. — Prof. C. H. Shattuck, Forestry 

 Dep't, Univ. of Idaho: March 28, before the Puget Sound Brauch, 

 Amer. Chem. Soc, on Wood processing. 



Buildings, funds and endowments. Buildings. A new lab. 

 building at the Marine Biol. Lab., Woods Hole, Mass., was dedi- 

 cated, July 10, with appropriate ceremonies. 



Tke School of Physiol., presented to the Univ. of Cambridge by 

 the Drapers' Co., was opened by Prince Arthur of Connaught, June 

 9. The cost of the building, with the contribution made by the Com- 

 pany towards its equipment, has amounted to £23,500. 



Beth Israel Hosp. has bought a new site at i6th St. and Stuy- 

 vesant Place, N. Y. City, where its new building will be erected. 

 The new hospital will be fifteen stories high, with ample space for 

 the lab. dep't. The cost of the new building will be about 

 $1,000,000. 



Funds. Carnegie grants. The report of the pres. of the Car- 

 negie Inst., for the year ending Oct. 31, 1913, contains the following 

 summary of "minor grants" for research in " chemistry ": S. F. 

 Acree, $2,000; G. P. Baxter, $1,500; T. B. Osborne and L. B. 

 Mendel, $15,000; H. C. Jones, $3,200; H. N. Morse, $4,000; A. A. 

 Noyes, $3,000; T. W. Richards, $3,000; H. C. Sherman, $1,200. 

 In " nutrition" : Carl Tigerstedt, $1,000. In " physiology" : Eliza- 



