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in some way connected with University College or the hospital are 

 being asked to subscribe. 



The presidents of the Royal Society and the Royal College of 

 Surgeons some weeks ago took the necessary steps for the forma- 

 tion of a large and representative committee for the purpose of es- 

 tablishing a memorial to the late Lord Lister. A meeting of the 

 committee, which was largely attended, was held on July 22 at the 

 rooms of the Royal Society, under the chairmanship of Sir Archi- 

 bald Geikie. The following were appointed an executive commit- 

 tee to recommend to a future meeting of the general committee a 

 scheme for the memorial to Lord Lister and to organize an appeal 

 for subscriptions : The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chan- 

 cellor, Lords Iveagh, Rayleigh, Rothschild and Alverstone, the dean 

 of Westminster, the Lord Mayor, the Lord Provosts of Edinburgh 

 and Glasgow, the Master of the Rolls, Mr. Lewis Harcourt, M.P., 

 Sir T. Barlow, Sir W. W. Cheyne, Sir R. J. Godlee, Sir H. Morris, 

 Sir A. Geikie, Sir D. MacAlister, the Hon. Sir C. Parsons, Sir W. 

 Turner, Sir J. Wolfe-Barry, Sir J. R. Bradford, Sir A. P. Gould, 

 Sir A. Kempe, the Hon. W. F. D. Smith, Mr. F. M. Fry and Mr. 

 Edmund Owen. Lord Rothschild and Sir W. W. Cheyne were 

 appointed treasurers and Sir J. R. Bradford was appointed secretary 

 of the Lister Memorial Committee. 



Dr. Paul C. Freer. The Bureau of Science of the Philippine 

 Government has adopted resolutions in memory of Dr. Paul C. 

 Freer, director of scientific work in the bureau, who died last April. 

 The resolutions express the sense of his associates that " the Bureau 

 of Science has suffered a very great loss and that the cause of sci- 

 ence in the Philippine Islands has been deprived of one of its most 

 zealous and conscientious advocates." 



Anniversary celebrations. June 30: Professor Gad, formerly 

 director of the Physiological Institute at Graz, a pupil of Du Bois- 

 Reymond, celebrated his seventieth birthday. — July i: Prof. Carl 

 Binz, formerly director of the Pharmacological Institute at Bonn, 

 celebrated his eightieth birthday. — August ß: Professor Bernstein, 

 formerly director of the Institute of Physiology at Halle, celebrated 

 the fiftieth anniversary of his doctorate. — September 14: Prof. W. 



