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of extended researches of signal importance in chemical science. 

 — The Heimholte medal of the Berlin Academy of Sciences has 

 been awarded to Prof. S. Schwendener (Berlin), for his researches 

 in plant physiology. 



CoRRESPONDiNG MEMBER. Dr. Alcxis Carrel (Rockefeiler Insti- 

 tute) has been elected a corresponding member of the Paris Acad- 

 emy of Medicine, 



Reception and DINNERS. A rcccption was given by the Man- 

 hattan Medical Society, February 28, to Dr. Jacques Loeb (Rocke- 

 f eller Institute), at which he spoke on Some recent experiments in 

 artificial parthenogenesis. — The Bay County Medical Society gave 

 a dinner recently at Bay City, Mich., in lionor of Prof. Victor C. 

 Vaughan, who afterward delivered an address on Prevention of dis- 

 ease. — Prof. R. H. Chittenden (Yale) was the guest of his pupils 

 at a dinner at Delmonico's, N. Y., on March i. (See page 349.) 



AWARD OF THE ElLEN H. RiCHARDS RESEARCH PRIZE. At a 



recent meeting of the Naples Table Association for Promoting 

 Laboratory Research by Women, the Ellen H. Richards research 

 prize of $1,000, for the best thesis written by a woman on a scien- 

 tific subject embodying new observations and new conclusions based 

 on independent laboratory research in biological, chemical or phys- 

 ical science, was awarded to Miss Ida Smedley (London, England; 

 D.Sc, London University), who has been working for the past four 

 years in the biochemical laboratory of the Lister Institute of Pre- 

 ventive Medicine. The subject of the winning thesis was : " An 

 investigation into the methods of formation of fatty acids from 

 carbohydrates in the organism." Ten theses were submitted in 

 competition. The examiners for the award of this prize were: 

 Dr. W. H. Howell, of Johns Hopkins Medical School; Dr. Theo- 

 dore Richards, of Harvard University; and Dr. Henry Crew, of 

 Northwestern University. 



Appointments.^ Breslau: Professor Henkel (Königsberg), 

 director of the pathological Institute, in succession to Professor 

 Ponfink. 



^ In this summary, institutions from which resignations occurred are named 

 in parenthesis. See, also, page 484. 



