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Straiiss, Berlin: (N. Y. Post-Graduate Medical School), Gastric 

 secretion from the therapeutic point of view, Oct. 14, and The 

 method and purpose of dechlorination in nephritis, Oct. 15. 



HuxLEY LECTURE. Dr. Simon Flexner delivered, at Charing 

 Gross Hospital Medical College, on October 31, a Huxley lecture on 

 Recent advances in science in relation to practical medicine. 



MiscELLANEOUS ITEMS. Prof. M. T. Bogcrt, President of the 

 Society of Ghemical Industry, lectured before the McGill Chemical 

 Society, Montreal, Dec. 16, on The Classification of carbon Com- 

 pounds, and in the evening addressed the Montreal members of the 

 Society of Chemical Industry at a banquet at Coopers Limited. On 

 the following day he addressed the Toronto members of the society 

 at a banquet at the Engineers' Club, Toronto, on A closer Coopera- 

 tion between the universities and chemical Industries. 



At McGill University the annual university lecture for the cur- 

 rent year was delivered, Oct. 8, by Prof. F. E. Lloyd, on The arti- 

 ficial ripening of bitter fruits. 



Prof. /. /. R. MacLeod recently delivered, at the University of 

 London, eight lectures on Carbohydrate metabolism. 



Endowments, funds and buildings. Funds and endow- 

 MENTS. The executors of the estate of George Crocker have filed 

 their final accounting with the courts which shows that Columbia 

 University has received from the estate $1,566,635 for the cancer 

 research fund (p. 194). — Mr. AustenChamberlain has received £48,- 

 000 tovvards the £100,000 which he is raising for the London School 

 of Tropical Medicine. — Mr. George F. Baker, president of the First 

 National Bank of New York, has given a large sum, reported to be 

 $2,000,000, to effect an alliance between the New York Hospital 

 and the Cornell University Medical College. — Dr. John C. Hem- 

 meter, University of Maryland, made, at the celebration of academic 

 day, November 12, a gift of $10,000 as a beginning on the endow- 

 ment of the chair for experimental physiology. — An annual fund 

 of $15,000, to Support research in medicine at the University of 

 Toronto, has been subscribed for five years by a few Citizens of 

 Toronto. 



Buildings and equipment. The cornerstone of the new dis- 

 pensary building of the College of Medicine of Syracuse University 



