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was laid on December 14. — A bronze bust of Dr. E. W. Hilgard, 

 emeritus professor at the University of California, was recently 

 unveiled in the foyer of the new agricultural hall when the building 

 was dedicated. The occasion was also marked by the formal inves- 

 titure of Prof. Thomas F. Hunt as dean of the department of agri- 

 culture. — Mr. Andrew Carnegie has offered to the University of 

 Paris the last $20,000 necessary for equipping the new Institute of 

 Chemistry in course of erection in the Rue Pierre Curie. 



Societies, associations, etc. American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science. A füll account of the proceedings has 

 been published in Science, issue of Jan. 10, p. 41. 



Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biol- 

 OGY. Proceedings are published in this volume, p. 271. 



RusH Society. This society, established through the initiative 

 of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, was 

 organized November 21. Its objects are similar to those of the 

 Harvey Society (New York), namely, the diffusion, by lectures, of 

 knowledge conceming recent advances in the medical and the gen- 

 eral biological sciences, and public hygiene. The officers are : Richard 

 M. Pearce, president; Alfred Stengel, vice-president ; William Pep- 

 per, secretary-treasurer, and A. E. Taylor, A. C. Abbott and H. H. 

 Donaldson, councilors. 



SiXTH International Congress for General and Medical 

 Electrology and Radiology. This congress, held in Prague 

 during the first week of November, was attended by 760 members. 

 About 130 papers were read. An interesting account of the pro- 

 ceedings was published in the Journal of the American Medical 

 Associatio7i, Dec. 14, p. 2169, 



New Hospital Association. Delegates from twenty-nine 

 hospital dispensaries met recently at the N. Y. Academy of Medicine 

 and organized an association to be known as the Associated Out- 

 Patienf Clinics of the City of Nezu York. The association aims to 

 coördinate the work of existing dispensaries and out-patient clinics, 

 to eliminate unworthy applicants for treatment, and to promote 

 proper Standards of treatment, economy and efficiency in dispensary 

 management. 



