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Leonard P. Kinnicutt. At the Worcester Polytechnic Institute 

 a fund has been established, to be called the Leonard P. Kinnicutt 

 Student Loan Fund, with certain sums of money remaining after 

 the discontinuance of Newton Hall, for eight years the Institute dor- 

 mitory on State St. Dr. Kinnicutt, while professor of chemistry, 

 was chairman of the faculty committee in charge of the dormitory, 

 and was always active in helping students financially and in other 

 ways. 



Robert Koch. The official Reichsanseiger publishes the follow- 

 ing edict from the Kaiser, dated March 29: "On March 24, 1912, 

 thirty years had elapsed since the deceased Privy Councilor, Prof. 

 Dr. Robert Koch, announced to the Berlin Physiological Society his 

 discovery of the tubercle bacillus. With this discovery Koch ini- 

 tiated the battle against the severest scourge of the human r^ce, and 

 it has since then been carried on with unexampled success and has 

 rendered to suffering humanity undying service. On this occasion 

 I wish to honor the memory of the great scientist for all time by 

 adding the name of Robert Koch to the title of the royal institute 

 for infectious diseases in Berlin which was erected for Robert Koch 

 and which was for twenty years his place of labor." 



A memorial service for Robert Koch was recently held in Tokyo. 

 The widow of Koch, the German ambassador and many scientists 

 participated in the ceremony, which took place in the temple ded- 

 icated in honor of Koch by Professor Kitasato and which con- 

 formed to the Shinto ritual. 



Howard T. Ricketts. The University of Chicago has received 

 $5000 from Mrs. Myra T. Ricketts, widow of the late Howard T. 

 Ricketts, assistant professor of pathology in the university, to found 

 a scholarship to be known as the Howard T. Rickett's Prize. This 

 prize will be awarded annually for the best research by any Student 

 in the department of pathology and bacteriology. Dr. Ricketts 

 lost his life in 1910 in the city of Mexico, from typhus fever, which 

 he contracted while engaged in the scientific investigation of the 

 disease. 



Honors. Testimonials. The completion by Dr. Rudolf von 

 Jaksch of twenty-five years as professor of internal medicine at 



