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Washburn College : Dr. Edith M. Twtss, head of the department of 

 botany ; Mr. James P. Poole, instructor in botany. 



Washington State College (Pullman) : Dr.IraD. Cardiff (professor 

 of botany in Washburn College), professor of plant physiology. 



Prizes, grants, endowments and funds. Prizes. The Col- 

 lege of Physicians, Philadelphia, announces that the next award of 

 the Alvarenga prise, amounting to about $180, will be made July 14, 

 191 3. Essays may be devoted to any subject in medicine but must 

 not have been published, and shonld be received by May i, 1913, by 

 the secretary of the College, Dr. Thomas R. Neilson, 1937 Chestnut 

 Street, who will furnish particulars, on request. — Madame Dieula- 

 foy, widow of the late clinician, has given to the Academy of Medi- 

 cine, of Paris, in memory of her husband, the sum necessary to 

 found the Dieulafoy prise of $400, which will be awarded every 

 two years to the author of the best work on the subject of internal 

 pathology. — The Riberi prise, amounting to $4,000, will be awarded 

 by the University of Turin, after the close of the year 1916, for the 

 work which is adjudged to have most advanced the science of 

 medicine. 



Grants. Grants for research, at the recent meeting of the Brit- 

 ish Association: Mr. A. D. Hall, plant enzymes, £30; Prof. E. A. 

 Schäfer, the ductless glands, £40; Prof. E. H. Starling, oxy-hemo- 

 globin, £15 ; Prof. F. Gotch, mammalian heart, £20; Sir W. Ramsay, 

 for the International Commission on Physical and Chemical Con- 

 stants, £40. 



Endowments and funds. The London School of Tropical Med- 

 icine is making an appeal for $500,000 to provide for the equipment 

 and more efficient conduct of its work. — The late Dr. J. E. Robinson, 

 first governor of Kansas, bequeathed $100,000 to the University of 

 Kansas. The gift will be used for the medical school. — Mr. James 

 B. Brady, of New York, has given the sum of $220,000 to the Johns 

 Hopkins Hospital, for the establishment of a ward for the treatment 

 of diseases of the kidney. — The late Mr. Allan Octavian Hume, well 

 known as an ornithologist and botanist, lately bequeathed about 

 £14,000 to the South London Botanical Institute, to which in 1907 

 he gave £10,000. — Under the will of the late Augustus W. Open- 

 hym, Columbia University will receive a third of a trust fund of 



