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John Morgan. The Journal of the American Medical Associa- 

 tion States that a committee consisting of Provost Edgar Fahs 

 Smith, Ph.D., Dr. S. Wcir Mitchell, Sir William Osler and Drs. 

 William Pepper, Clarence Payne Franklin and Swithin Chandler has 

 been formed to take up the project of erecting, in Philadelphia, a 

 fitting monument to John Morgan, founder of the first medical 

 school in the United States, and director-general of the hospitals 

 and physician-in-chief of the American army during the Revolu- 

 tionary War. 



Christian A. Herter. In response to an invitation issued by the 

 President of the Johns Hopkins University and the Committee on 

 the Herter Memorial Lectureship, a meeting in memory of the late 

 Dr. Christian Archibald Herter was held in the lecture room of the 

 Physiological Laboratory on the afternoon of October 5. Drs. W. 

 H. Welch, H. S. Halsted, J. J. Abel, E. K. Dunham and Simon 

 Flexner spoke of various aspects of the life and work of Dr. Herter 

 and paid tribute to his character and his Services to medical science. 



Endowments. The British Association for the Advancement 

 of Science has recently made an appropriation of $150 for the 

 furtherance of chemical study of plant enzymes. 



The million dollar fund for the further endowment of the Med- 

 ical School of Western Reserve University has been completed. 



The English government has voted $250,000 for agricultural 

 research, including plant and animal physiology, pathology, breed- 

 ing and agricultural zoölogy, and fruit breeding. This appro- 

 priation is accompanied by a yearly sum of $15,000 for special 

 investigation. The plan includes grants to various educational in- 

 stitutions (a separate subject to be treated by each Institution receiv- 

 ing aid) for investigation and scientific advice to f armers. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given $25,000,000 to the Carnegie 

 Corporation of New York, which was incorporated by the legisla- 

 ture last June. The objects of the corporation are " receiving and 

 maintaining a fund or funds and applying the income thereof to 

 promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and under- 

 standing among the people of the United States, by aiding technical 



