I9I2) General 503 



The million dollar fund for the further endowment of the 

 Medical School of Western Reserve University has been completed. 



The Illinois State Supreme Court has rendered a decision which 

 declares unconstitutional an act of the last legislature which voted 

 an item of $60,000 for the medical school of the university. 



The Committee on Scientific Research of the American Medical 

 Association has charge of a small fund for the promotion of re- 

 search. The committee desires that this money be used to meet 

 actual needs and to promote investigative work not otherwise ade- 

 quately provided for. Applications for grants are invited. The 

 applicant should State fully the purpose for which the grant is de- 

 sired, as well as the qualifications of the applicant, and the general 

 opportunities and conditions under which the work would be done. 

 The members of the committee are Drs. Ludvig Hektoen (1743 

 West Harrison Street, Chicago), Graham Lusk and Eugene L. Opie. 



The widow of the late Professor Hitzig has given 84,000 marks 

 to the Prussian Academy of Sciences for the encouragement of re- 

 searches on the brain. 



Mr. Albert Plaut has donated $5,000 to Princeton University 

 to be used as a fund for encouraging the study of chemistry at that 

 university by securing distinguished chemists to address the Chem- 

 ical Club. 



Gifts. Lord Lister bequeathed nearly the whole of his fortune 

 to scientific institutions and hospitals, including $100,000 to the 

 Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine and $50,000 to the Royal 

 Society. 



Prof. Theodore C. Janeway recently presented to Columbia Uni- 

 versity the medical library of his father, Dr. Edward G. Janeway, 

 to be the nucleus of the library of the Department of Practice of 

 Medicine. The library comprises about 1500 bound volumes and 

 2,500 unbound monographs, Journals and pamphlets. It was also 

 announced that Mrs. Russell Sage has given $25,000 to establish the 

 E, G. Janeway library endowment fund at the Columbia Medical 

 School. 



Mr. John D. Rockefeiler has contributed $11,000 toward the 

 purchase of the house in which. Pasteur was born, in the village of 

 Dole. 



