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a monument in Glasgow; and the preservation of the ward in the 

 old building which is now being torn down to make way for a new 

 building of the Royal Infirmary. This ward will be arranged as it 

 was in Lister's time, furnished with contemporary articles and pro- 

 vided with exhibits showing the work that Lister did, and with 

 articles of a personal nature associated with the man in his work. 

 Contributions may be made to any of the memorials, and may be 

 sent to Dr. W. W. Keen, 1729 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 

 Each contributor is asked to designate the particular memorial to 

 which he wishes his contribution to be applied (p. 189), 



Paul C. Freer. The July issue of the Philippine Journal of 

 Science was a memorial to the late Dr. Paul C. Freer, director of 

 the Bureau of Science of the Philippine Islands, dean of the College 

 of Medicine and professor of chemistry at the University of the 

 Philippines, founder and editor of the Philippine Journal of Science 

 (p. 189). 



Honors. Nobel prizes were presented by the King of Sweden 

 at a bancjuet in Stockholm, on December 10. Those to whom 

 awards had been made were present, including Dr. Alexis Carrel, 

 of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (p. 190). — The 

 Nobel prize for chemistry has been divided between Professors 

 Grignard, of Nancy, and Sabattier, of Toulouse. — Professor Sabat- 

 tier has given his portion of the Nobel prize in chemistry to the 

 building fund of the Toulouse Institute of Chemistry. — A reception 

 was given in honor of Dr. Alexis Carrel, at New York University, 

 on November 16, when President Taft, the French ambassador, and 

 others, delivered congratulatory addresses and Dr. Carrel responded. 



Order of merit. Dr. Paul Ehrlich, of Frankfort, and Dr. 

 Emil Warburg, president of the "Reichsanstalt" at Charlottenberg, 

 have been made members of the Bavarian-Maximilian Order, which 

 is the highest Bavarian decoration for scientific Services. 



Corresponding member. Prof. F. E. Lloyd, of McGill Uni- 

 versity, has been elected a corresponding member of the Centro de 

 Sciencias, Letras, e Artes, Campinas, S. Paulo, Brazil, in recogni- 

 tion of his work on the desert rubber plant, guayule. 



Honorary member. At its meeting on December 3 the Acad- 



