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The Directors of the Otho S. A. Sprague Memorial Institute of 

 Chicago will devote the income of the fund chiefly to medical re- 

 search. Prof. H. Gideon Wells will direct the work, which will be 

 conducted in Cooperation with the following existing institutions : 

 University of Chicago, Rush Medical College, Presbyterian Hos- 

 pital and the Children's Memorial Hospital, of Chicago. The 

 Advisory Council consists of Dr. Frank Billings, Prof. E. R. Le- 

 Count, Prof. Ludvig Hektoen, Dr. James B. Herrick, Prof. Edwin 

 O. Jordan, Dr. Joseph Miller and Prof. Julius Steiglitz. Professor 

 Wells has already appointed the following members of the research 

 staflf: Dr. R. T. Woodyatt, Dr. Evarts Graham, Dr. H. F. Helm- 

 holz, Dr. H. J. Corper, Dr. Lydia Dewitt, Miss Maud Slye and 

 Dr. Wilber Post. Several fellowships will provide for investiga- 

 tions of medical problems. 



A food and drug laboratory has been organized in connection 

 with the department of chemistry at the Montana State College at 

 Bozeman. The Montana State legislature at its last Session passed 

 a pure food law in which provisions were made for the equipment 

 and maintenance of this laboratory. Messrs. W. M. Cobleigh, State 

 chemist, C. E. Millet, director of drug analyses, Drury L. Weather- 

 head, food analyst and D. B. Swingle, bacteriologist, constitute the 

 laboratory staff. 



Lectures and addresses. Ether day was observed October i6 

 at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston by the usual 

 clinics and luncheon. In the afternoon Dr. Simon Flexner gave an 

 address on " The biological basis of specific therapy." The alumni 

 met at a banquet in the evening and were addressed by Drs. Simon 

 Flexner, Charles F. Stokes, Surgeon-General of the U. S. Army, 

 and Harvey Cushing. 



At the first meeting of the year of the Biological Club at the 

 Oregon Agricultural College, Prof. Victor L. Gardner gave an 

 address on " Fundamental factors of plant nutrition with special 

 reference to the blueberry." A second address on "The relation of 

 plant pathology to the other biological sciences " was given by H. L, 

 Rees, of the crop-pest staff. 



The annual Herter lectures were delivered at the Johns Hopkins 



