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schools, institutions of higher learning, libraries, scientific research, 

 hero funds, useful publications, and by such other means as shall 

 from time to time be found appropriate therefor." 



Miscellaneous. Radium Institutes. The new Radium Institute 

 was officially opened in London last August. It possesses radium 

 salts to the value of about $250,000. 



At Joachimsthal, a Bohemian mining place, the government has 

 erected an institute which will be devoted entirely to the use of 

 radio-active substances for medical purposes. It is well known that 

 the classical discoveries of Becquerel and Curie, in Paris, were made 

 on uranium salts obtained from material found in the mines of 

 Joachimsthal. Soon afterward exhaustive researches on the mother 

 substance in Joachimsthal showed that the water in the mines is the 

 most radio-active natural water in the world. A private syndicate 

 was soon organized for the purpose of exploiting this natural 

 resource; but public opinion forced the government to assume con- 

 trol of the affair and to erect a Curanstalt, a therapeutic Institution, 

 accessible to all classes of the population. From the material ob- 

 tained in these government mines — formerly they yielded a fair 

 amount of silver, too — a large quantity of radium bromid can be 

 manufactured, and in the institute all kinds of treatment by radio- 

 active substances will be given. The building was recently opened ; 

 it contains radioactive baths, a large quantity of radium salts, and 

 will be open all the year round. By pipes the water is drawn into 

 the baths directly from the bottom of the mines, and filtered in such 

 a way that it does not lose anything of its activity. The institution 

 is in Charge of an expert medical radiologist from the University 

 of Vienna. 



New biiildings. Six new buildings will be erected at the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin during the present academic year, The erec- 

 tion of a new building for the department of agricultural chemistry, 

 to cost approximately $100,000, has been started. 



For the past two years Roosevelt Hospital has had a research 

 laboratory under an endowment given by Mrs. E. H. Harriman. 

 Recently Dr. Lewis R. Morris offered to erect a suitable building 

 for laboratory work and such a building will be erected in the center 



