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Prides. The Naples Table Association for Promoting Labo- 

 ratory Research by Women announces a prize of $i,ooo for the 

 best thesis written by a woman on a scientific subject, embodying 

 new observations and new conclusions based on an independent 

 laboratory research in biological (including psychological), chem- 

 ical, or physical science. The theses offered in competition must 

 be presented to the executive committee of the association and must 

 be in the hands of the chairman of the committee on the prize, Dr. 

 Lilian Welsh, Goucher College, Baltimore, Md., before February 

 2ß, 1913. The prize will be awarded at the annual meeting in 

 April, 1913. Each thesis must be submitted under a pseudonym 

 and must be accompanied by a sealed envelope, enclosing the author's 

 name and address, and superscribed with a title corresponding to 

 one borne by the manuscript. Additional information may be 

 obtained from the Secretary, Ada Wing Mead (Mrs. A. D.), 283 

 Wayland Avenue, Providence, R. I. 



There will be awarded in 191 5 a prize of 300 francs to the 

 author of the best memoir on the improvement of present anesthetic 

 processes, or to the author of a discovery of an anesthetic consid- 

 ered wortliy of the attention of the Jury, or to the inventors of 

 apparatus, processes or methods markedly facilitating anesthesia. 

 The memoirs may be addressed to M. Quincerot, President du 

 Comite Horace Wells, 28, rue de Moscou, Paris. The memoirs 

 must be written in French. A device should accompany the manu- 

 script, also a sealed envelope bearing on the outside the device, and 

 containing the name and address, of the candidate. 



Grant. The directors of the Bache Fund of the National Acad- 

 emy of Sciences have voted a grant of $500 to Prof. M. A. Rosanoff, 

 of Clark University, in aid of his research on the dynamics of 

 sugar Inversion. 



Journalistic. ^A Review of Internal Medicine. The fact that 

 the Zentralblatt fi'r innere Medizin, which has been in existence for 

 a number of years, has been for a long time insufficient for the 

 requirements of scientific internists, led the members of the Con- 

 gress of Internal Medicine to develop a plan to found a new organ 

 which should appear under the auspices of the organized internists 

 of Germany. The plan has been developed and the first number of 



