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the old and new institutions are purely scientific in purpose and 

 conduct. 



Carnegie grants. The report of the president of the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington, for the year ending October 31, 191 2, 

 contains the following summary of grants in " chemistry" ; S. F. 

 Acree, $2,000; G. P. Baxter, $1,000; T. B. Osborne and Lafayette 

 B. Mendel, $15,000; H. C. Jones, $2,200; H. N. Morse, $4,000; 

 A. A. Noyes, $3,000; T. W. Richards, $3,000; H. C. Sherman, 

 $1,200. 



International pharmaceutical commission. The Section 

 on Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Eighth International Congress of 

 Applied Chemistry, has appointed an international commission to 

 continue the inquiry on variations in the activity of certain toxic 

 drugs, and to report at St. Petersburg in 191 5. The commission: 

 Austria, Prof. Wilhelm Mitlacher; France, Prof. E. Bourquelot; 

 Germany, Prof. H. Thoms; Great Britain, Francis Ransom, F. C. 

 S. ; Netherlands, Prof. L. van Itallie ; Szvitzerland, Prof. A. 

 Tschirch; United States, Dr. Rodney H. True. Three secretaries 

 for the commission were also appointed: European Continent, 

 George P. Forrester, F. C. S. ; Great Britain, Peter MacEnau, 

 F. C. S. ; United States, Otto Raubenheimer. 



University of Illinois again gets medical school. The 

 College of Physicians and Surgeons, Chicago, again passes under 

 the control of the Univ. of 111. This time it is a gift to the State 

 institution, partly by the stockholders and partly by the alumni who 

 purchased the stock not donated. For several years the medical 

 school has held a contractual relationship with the Univ. of 111., but 

 it was cancelled last spring. By the present transfer of all the stock, 

 however, the medical school becomes an organic department of the 

 Univ. of 111. The formal transfer of the College to the university 

 occurred on March 6. 



Personalia. Dr. W. D. Bigelow of the U. S. Dep't of Agric, 

 lately a member of the "pure food board," has resigned to take 

 Charge of the laboratory of the National Canners' Association to 

 be established in Washington, D. C. 



