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of the Roosevelt Hospital premises. Dr. William Gordon Lyle will 

 have Charge of the new institution. 



University medical clinic. Prof. Theodore C. Janeway has ini- 

 tiated the Organization of a University Medical Clinic at the Presby- 

 terian Hospital with Professors W. T. Longcope and David 

 Bovaird, and Drs. Herbert S. Carter and Herman O. Mosenthal as 

 the other members of the division staff. 



Institute for chemical research. An institution for furthering 

 the progress of scientific chemistry without the Obligation of teach- 

 ing will be founded at Dahlem near Berlin. The Institute will be 

 erected jointly by the Kaiser Wilhelm-Gesellschaft für wissen- 

 schaftliche Forschungen, by a society founded especially for this 

 purpose consisting principally of proprietors of chemical factories, 

 and the State of Prussia. The society guarantees a yearly contri- 

 bution of $15,000 and for the building alone $225,000. The gov- 

 ernment will give the ground and promises to supply one of the 

 Professors of the university as the director of the institution. The 

 management of the new imperial institute will be in the hands of 

 a committee. 



Wellcome historical exhibition. Mr. Henry S. Wellcome is 

 organizing and will direct an historical exhibition of rare and curi- 

 ous objects relating to medicine, chemistry, pharmacy and the allied 

 sciences, at the same time as the meeting of the International Medi- 

 cal Congress, which will be held in London in 191 3. For many 

 years Mr. Wellcome has been engaged in researches respecting the 

 early methods employed in the healing art, both among civilized and 

 uncivilized peoples. It has been his object in particular to trace the 

 origin of the use of remedial agents, and inquire why and how cer- 

 tain substances came to be employed in the treatment of disease. 

 The exhibition will be strictly professional and scientific in char- 

 acter, and will not be open to the general public. Mr. Wellcome 

 would value any information sent him in regard to medical lore, 

 early traditions or references to ancient medical treatment in manu- 

 scripts, printed works, etc. Mr. Wellcome desires ultimately to 

 publish, in collected form, all the information obtained. Communi- 

 cations may be addressed to Mr. Henry S. Wellcome, at Snow Hill 

 Buildings, London, E. C. 



