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the provisions of a declaration of trust executed by them. The 

 chief aim of the trust is to further the interests of the Journal of 

 Biological Chemistry, an instrument for the development of science 

 created by Christian A. Herter and fostered by him up to the time 

 of his death. In the event that conditions arise removing the need 

 for such a use of the income, provisions are made by which the 

 fund shall continue as a memorial of Professor Herter, and of 

 Service to humanity, in the promotion of scientific research. Dr. 

 Simon Flexner, of New York, is the President and Prof. A. N. 

 Richards, of Philadelphia, the secretary of the directorate in charge 

 of the fund. 



Prof. Lafayette B. Mendel has resigned the editorship of the 

 Biological Department of Chemical Abstracts and Prof. William J. 

 Gies has been elected to succeed him, beginning with the first issue 

 of Chemical Abstracts in October. 



Honors. Nobel Prizes for 1910 have been awarded in medi- 

 cine to Dr. Albrecht Kossei, professor of physiology at Heidelberg, 

 and in chemistry to Professor Wallach, the vvell-known authority on 

 the essential oils and their constituents. 



Columbia University has conferred its doctorate of laws on 

 Professor C. F. Chandler, who retires this year from the chair of 

 chemistry after forty-seven years of active Service. 



The University of Birmingham has conferred the degree of 

 LL.D. upon Prof. R. H. Chittenden. 



The doctorate of science has been conferred by Yale University 

 on Prof. Wm. H. Howell, and by Wesleyan University on Dr. F. 

 G. Benedict. 



Dr. Harvey W. Wiley was one of the seven eminent scientists 

 and technologists recently honored by the Franklin Institute of 

 Philadelphia with awards of Elliot Cresson medals for "distin- 

 guished, leading and directive work" in their respective fields of 

 endeavor. The medals are the highest awards in the gift of the 

 Institution. 



Dr. Svante Arrhenius was awarded the Willard Gibbs medal of 

 the American Chemical Society for 191 1. 



