1913] General 571 



of edestin.— The British Board of Agric. and Fisheries has awarded 

 research scholarships in agric. science of the annual value of £150, 

 tenable for three years, to the following candidates, among others : 

 W. Brown (Edinburgh), plant pathology; Miss E. C. V. Cornish 

 (Bristol), dairying; E. J. Hohnyard (Cambridge), plant nutrition 

 and soil problems; R. C. Knight (London and Bristol), plant physi- 

 ology; H. Raistrick (Leeds), animal nutrition; Miss T. Redman 

 (London), dairying; G. Williams (Wales), animal nutrition; 6^. P. 

 Wiltshire (Bristol), plant pathology. — The N. Y. State Legislature 

 has appropriated $450,000 for the Coli, of Agric, Cornell Univ., 

 which also receives $125,000 in the supply bill. — Dr. William Duane, 

 for six years radium-research assis. in the Curie Lab., Paris, will 

 organize, for the Harvard Cancer Commission, a laboratory in 

 which Cancer may be studied from the point of view of the physicist. 

 The univ. requires $250,000 for the establishment of this laboratory. 

 Meanwhile, experiments will be conducted in the CoUis P. Hun- 

 tington Building. — The 111. State Legislature has appropriated 

 $4,500,000 for the Univ. of III. for the next biennium. This in- 

 cludes $200,000 for the Coli, of Med. — The special alumni com- 

 mittee on the needs of the Med. Seh., Univ. of Wis., has recom- 

 mended the construction of a medical building to house the dep'ts 

 of physiology, physiol. chemistry, pharmacology, toxicology and 

 bacteriology, and the State Hygienic Lab. ; also a Student infirmary. 

 — The Vienna Society for the Investigation and Prevention of 

 Cancer has established a lab. for experimental work on cancer, 

 mainly in the domain of chemistry and ehem. therapeutics. It will 

 be amalgamated with the Spiegier Inst., which has been in existence 

 nine years. Prof. S. Fraenkel has been appointed director. 



TuRCK Institute, New York. Dr. Fenton B. Turck has re- 

 moved his office and residence from Chicago to 14 E. 53 St., N. Y. 

 City, where he devotes his morning hours to office practice and the 

 afternoons to his Research Lab., at 428 Lafayette St. This research 

 lab., formerly in Chicago, has been endowed by two former patients, 

 of London, England, who have removed to New York, and reside 

 near the laboratory. The work relates to various problems con- 

 nected with the alimentary tract and is conducted by the Director, 

 Dr. Turck, assisted by the following staff — Organic chemistry: A. 



