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Dr. Martin H. Fischer, professor of physiology at the Uni- 

 versity of Cincinnati, has been awarded the Cartwright prize of 

 $500, offered by the Ahimni Association of the College of Physi- 

 cians and Snrgeons, New York City, for his essay on " Nephritis : 

 An experimental and critical study of its natnre, cause and relief." 



Dr. Abraham Jacobi was elected president of the American 

 Medical Association, at the last annual meeting, 



Dr. Henry Prentiss Armsby, director of the Institute of Animal 

 Nutrition of the Pennsylvania State College, has been elected a 

 member of the Royal Society of Arts of Great Britain. 



Dr. Jacques Loeb, of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re- 

 search, has been elected an associate of the Royal Academy of 

 Science at Belgium, in the section of natural science; also an honor- 

 ary foreign member of the Academy of Medicine of Belgium, a 

 member of the Academy of Sciences in Kharkof, and a correspond- 

 ent of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



Various honors have recently been conferred on Dr. Paul 

 Ehrlich, director of the Institute for Experimental Therapeutics at 

 Frank fort. The Emperor of Russia has conferred upon him the 

 Order of St. Anne First Class, with a badge set in diamonds. The 

 King of Spain has bestowed on him the Grand Gross of the Order 

 of Alfonso XII. The German emperor has bestowed on Professor 

 Ehrlich the title of Excellency and has appointed him an active 

 privy councillor. The German physicians who have hitherto re- 

 ceived this appointment are Koch, von Behring, von Bergmann 

 and von Leyden. The German Emperor has nominated him a 

 member of the Senate of the recently founded Kaiser Wilhelm 

 Society for the Advancement of Science, in which he is now the 

 only representative of medicine. The St. Petersburg Institute of 

 Experimental Therapeutics has elected him an honorary member. 



Retirements from Active Service. There have retired from 

 active Service Dr. Rudolf Nietzki, professor of chemistry at Basle; 

 Dr. Bernhard Tollens, associate professor of agricultural chemistry 

 at Göttingen; and Professor Rudolph A. Witthaus, professor of 

 chemistry, toxicology and medical jurisprudence at the Cornell Uni- 

 versity Medical College. 



