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beth Cooke, $1,900; E. T. Reichert, $1,500. The amount allotted 

 to the Nutr. Lab., in Boston, was $46,549. The total expenditure 

 for the year 1912-1913, in the form of grants directly in support of 

 research, was $969,502.72. (The pres. report was published in 

 Science: 1914, xxxix, p. 225.) 



Koch grants. The Robert Koch Foundation, at Berlin, for Re- 

 search on Tuberculosis, has granted a subsidy of $500 to Prof. 

 Lex er (Jena), for research on the action of light on tuberculous 

 tissue, and to Prof. Kayserling (Berlin), for roentgenologic inves- 

 tigation of the distribution and extent of the infection in tubercu- 

 losis-ridden families. 



MisceUaneous grants. The Russian minister of public instruc- 

 tion has granted $50,000 to the St. Petersburg Acad. of Sciences to 

 assist it in its search for radio-active minerals throughout the Rus- 

 sian Empire. — The C. M. Warren Committee of the Amen Acad. 

 of Arts and Sciences has granted $200 to Prof. S. Lawrence Bige- 

 low, Univ. of Michigan, for the promotion of his study of osmotic 

 membranes, especially those of a metallic nature. 



Endowments. The Univ. of Aberdeen has received $25,000 

 from Lord Strathcona for the creation of a chair of agric. 



Mr. R. B. Mellon, of Pittsburgh, has endowed a fellowship in 

 internal med. in the Seh. of Med., Univ. of Pittsburgh. The fellow 

 will be a resident of a Pittsburgh hospital and will work directly 

 under the prof. of med., Dr. J. D. Heard. In addition, Mr. Mellon 

 has provided funds for the purchase and maintenance of an electro- 

 cardiograph apparatus. 



The board of governors of the Gen. Memor. Hosp., N. Y. City, 

 have voted to enter into an affiliation with Cornell Univ. Med. Coli, 

 for the conduct of the Gen. Mem. Hosp. as an Institution for the 

 study and treatment of Cancer and allied diseases. This affiliation 

 is rendered possible by the gift of a large sum from Dr. James 

 Douglas which, in addition to the present endowment of the In- 

 stitution, will render the hospital largely independent of an income 

 from other sources. 



MisceUaneous general items. Leaves of absenge. Dr. Paul 

 J. Hanzlik (dep't of pharmacol., West. Reserve Univ.) has been 

 abroad since Jan. ist. He is working in Prof. Hans Meyer's lab. 



