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Dr. A. H. Lister, to arrange his scientific manuscripts and sketches, 

 destroying or otherwise disposing of such as are of no permanent 

 interest. He bequeathed the said manuscripts and sketches, when 

 so arranged, to the Royal College of Surgeons. (See page 503.) 



Crawford W. Long. On March 30, 1842, in the village of 

 Jeiferson, Georgia, Dr. Crawford W. Long administered ether to 

 Mr. James Venable and, while the patient was completely anesthet- 

 ized, removed a small tumor from the back of his neck. On the 

 seventieth anniversary of the day, exercises in honor of Long were 

 held in the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania, 

 from which he graduated in 1839. Addresses were made by Prof. 

 J. William White, of the University of Pennsylvania, and by Prof. 

 J. Chalmers Da Costa, of the Jefferson Medical College. A bronze 

 medallion designed by Prof. R. Tait Mackenzie, of the University 

 of Pennsylvania, was unveiled by one of the three daughters of Dr. 

 Long, who were present at the ceremony, Besides the unveiling 

 of the tablet to the memory of Long, on March 30, additional honor 

 was paid to his memory, when a portrait of Long, painted by one 

 of his daughters, was unveiled on April i with appropriate cere- 

 monies in the medical school building. 



H. P. Bowdifch. At the recent meeting of the American Phys- 

 iological Society in Baltimore, Prof. W. B. Cannon, of the Harvard 

 Medical School, delivered a memorial address on the late Prof. 

 Henry Pickering Bowditch. 



Sir Michael Foster. Dr. J. B. Hurry has established a research 

 studentship of physiology at Cambridge to be named in honor of 

 Michael Foster. 



Mrs. Ellen H. Richards. At an important meeting of the 

 Ellen H. Richards Memorial Fund Committee, held January 20, 

 191 2, the fund was specifically designated the Ellen H. Richards 

 Home Economics Fund, and its object defined as the application of 

 the results of scientific investigation for advancing the interest of 

 the home. The immediate purpose, as decided, is to establish per- 

 manently the Journal of Home Economics, the one scientific Jour- 

 nal devoted to advanced housekeeping, and upon which Mrs. Rich- 

 ards was engaged at the time of her death ; other objects contem- 



