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and to Prof. Allvar Gullstrand, of the University of Upsala, in 

 medicine. 



Prof. Paul Ehrlich, of Frankfort, has been awarded the Liebig 

 medal by the Verein Deutscher Chemiker. 



Dr. Emil Fischer, of Berlin, has been awarded the Berzelius 

 medal of the Swedish Medical Society. The Belgian Academy of 

 Sciences has elected as foreign members Professors Emil Fischer 

 and J. Pawlow, of St. Petersburg. 



Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the Rockefeiler Institute for 

 Medical Research, has been awarded the Cameron Prize in practical 

 therapeutics by the University of Edinburgh in recognition of his 

 work in cerebrospinal meningitis. In accordance with custom Dr. 

 Flexner has been invited to deliver an address at the University of 

 Edinburgh. Dr. Flexner has received from the German govern- 

 ment an appointment as honorary member of the Institute for Ex- 

 perimental Therapy at Frankfort-on-the-Main. 



The colleagues, friends and pupils of Prof. Armand Gautier, 

 Professor of chemistry in the Medical Faculty of the University of 

 Paris and president of the Academy of Sciences, on November 26 

 celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his connection with the 

 university. 



Dr. Emil Godlewski, professor of agricultural chemistry of the 

 University of Krakau, Poland, has been elected a corresponding 

 member of the Paris Academy of Sciences. 



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

 search, has been elected a member of the Academy of Sciences in 

 Krakau, Austria. 



Dr. S. J. Meltzer, head of the department of physiology and 

 pharmacology at the Rocke feller Institute for Medical Research, 

 is the fifth American to be elected a member of the Imperial Leo- 

 poldina Carolina Academy of Naturalists. 



The first reception of the Medical Club of Philadelphia for the 

 year was given at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, October 6, in honor 

 of the recently elected Professors in the University of Pennsylva- 

 nia — among the latter, Profs. A. N. Richards and Alonzo E. Taylor. 



