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gan: Dr. Ludvig Hektoen (Univ. of Chicago) and Dr. Lafayette 



B. Mendel (Yale Univ.), Doctor of Science. — Yale Univ.: Dr. 

 David F. Houston ( Sec'y of Agric. ), Doctor of Science ; Dr. Harvey 

 Cushing (Harvard Med. Seh.), Master of Arts. 



Presidency of THE Amer. Medical Association. Dr. Victor 



C. Vaughan, pro f. of hygiene and physiol. chemistry, Univ. of 

 Michigan, and dean of the dep't of medicine and surgery, was 

 elected president of the Amer. Med. Assoc. at the recent annual 

 meeting. ..." In the selection of Dr. Vaughan, the Amer. Med. 

 Assoc. has done deserved honor to one of the eminent members of 

 the medical profession — one who is eminent not only as a physician, 

 but also as a chemist, as a medical teacher, and as a scientist." 

 {Ed.: Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc., 191 3, Ix, p. 2053.) 



RiCKETTS prize. Dr. George L. Kite and Mr. Esmond R. 

 Long, graduate students in the dep't of pathology and bacteriology, 

 Univ. of Chicago, have been jointly awarded the Howard Taylor 

 Ricketts prize ($250) for original research in that dep't. 



AwARDs OF medals. Tlie Hanbury medal of the Pharmaceu- 

 tical Soc, London, has been awarded to Dr. Frederick B. Power 

 (director, Wellcome Research Lab., London). The medal is 

 awarded biennially for original research in the chemistry and natural 

 history of drugs. — Dr. Harry C. Jones (Johns Hopkins Univ.) has 

 been awarded the Edward Longstreth medal of the Franklin Inst., 

 of Phila., for his work on the nature of Solution. 



Resignations, declination and appointments.^ Resignations. Dr. 

 L. H. Bailey, director, N. Y. State Col. of Agric, Cornell Univ. (p. 

 569). — Dr. Geo. F. Gracey, prof. of chemistry and toxicology, Univ. of 

 Texas. — Dr. Paul G. Woolley, dean, medical dep't, Univ. of Cincinnati. 



Declination. Dr. Emil Abderhalden, prof. of physiology, Univ. 

 of Halle, has declined a call to Vienna to succeed Prof E. Ludwig as 

 head of the Inst, for Medical Chemistry. 



Appointments. Berlin Univ.: Prof. Ernst Friedberger, head of 

 the Pharmacol. Inst. 



Cambridge Univ.: Dr. F. H. A. Marshall, univ. lecturer on animal 

 physiology. 



1 In this summary, institutions f rom which resignations occurred are named 

 in parenthesis. See page 574. 



