250 Biochemical News, Notes and Comment [March, 



establishment of a Gotch memorial prize to be awarded annually, 

 af ter examination, to a Student in the physiol. lab. ; and to the crea- 

 tion and maintenance of a Gotch memorial library in the same lab. 



Louis Moissan, son of the late Prof. Henri Moissan and assistant 

 at the Ecole superieure de Pharmacie, Paris (who died on the field 

 of battle, August 10), has left to his school, in addition to the scien- 

 tific books and apparatus of his father, 200,000 francs for the foun- 

 dation of two prizes, one for chemistry (prix Moissan), and one for 

 pharmacy (prix Lugan), in memory respectively of his father and 

 mother, nee Lugan. 



Through the generosity of Mr. R. B. Mellon an endowed lecture- 

 ship has been presented to the Soc. for Biol. Research, Univ. of 

 Pittsburgh, for an annual lecture on subjects of medical research. 

 The lectures will be published in the form of monographs for dis- 

 tribution to libraries and investigators. The first lecture was given 

 by Prof. John J. Abel (see p. 247). 



New laboratories. The Henry S. Dennison memorial build- 

 ing for med. research, Univ. of Col., has been opened. 



The new radium lab. of Manchester Infirmary has been for- 

 mally opened by the Mayor of the city. 



The new building of the Mellon Inst, of Indust. Research, Univ. 

 of Pittsburgh, was dedicated on Feb. 26. 



The Thomas W. Evans Museum and Dental Inst., Seh. of Den- 

 tistry, Univ. of Penn., was dedicated, Feb. 22-23. 



The Chem. Section of the Iowa Agric. Exp. Sta'n has moved 

 into the new $250,000 Chem. Building of the Iowa State Coli, and 

 occupies the entire southeast wing of the third floor. 



Mr. A. Fleck, demonstr. at the Univ. of Glasgow, has been ap- 

 pointed physical chemist to the Glasgow Radium Commit., estab- 

 ished to administer a large fund collected in that city for the pur- 

 pose of acquiring and distributing radium for therapeutic purposes. 

 A radiometric lab., under the auspices of the commit., has been 

 fitted up at the univ. 



Associations, societies, etc.: Officers-elect. Acad. of Nat- 

 ural Sei. Pres., S. G. Dixon; vice-p., E. G. Conklin, John Cad- 

 walader; record. sec. and librarian, E. J. Nolan; cor. sec, /. P. 

 Moore; treas., George Vaux, Jr. 



Amer. Assoc. Adv. Science. Pres., W. W. Camphell; perm. 



