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Fletcher and Prof. F. G. Hopkins, Respiratory process in muscle, 

 and the nature of muscular action. 



MiscELLANEOUS LECTURES. Amer. Assoc. Adv., Science (Co- 

 lumbus) : General lect., Dr. F. K. Gameron, Fertilizer resources of 

 the U. S. 



Coli. City of New York; Dec. 22, '15: Dr. K. G. Falk, The 

 electron conception of valence. 



Prizes. Le Conte prize of the French Acad. of Sciences, 

 $10,000: Sir Almroth Wright, for his share in the introduction of 

 systematic vaccination against typhoid. — Nobel Prize^ Chem., 

 191 5: Richard Willstätter, for his researches on Chlorophyll. — 

 Nobel Prize, Chem., 1914:7. W. Richards, for his work on atomic 

 weights. 



In commemoration of the centennial of the independence of 

 Argentina, 1816-1916, the Acad. de Med. offers a prize of 2,500 

 pesos for the best unpublished work on a med. subject presented at 

 the Congr. of Social Sciences to be held at Tocyman, Argentina, 

 July 9, 19 16. This prize is open to any American member of the 

 Congress. 



Medals. Copley medal, Royal Soc, London: Ivan F. Pavlov, 

 For his investigations in the physiol. of digestion and secretion. — 

 Davy medal, Royal Soc, London : Paul Sabbatier, for his work on 

 catalysis and hydrogenation. — Leeuwenhoeck gold medal, Royal 

 Acad. of Sciences, Amsterdam (every ten years in recognition of 

 the most important work done during the decade on the microscop- 

 ical organisms first discovered by Leeuwenhoeck in 1675) : Surgeon- 

 General Sir David Bruce. — Moxon gold medal, Royal Coli, of 

 Physicians, London (every three years to the scientist whose ob- 

 servations and researches in clinical med. are deemed to render him 

 most worthy of this distinction) : Dr. Dejerine (prof. of diseases 

 of the nervous System at the Faculte de med., Paris). This is the 

 first time the medal has been awarded to any but an English clini- 

 cian. — Perkin medal, Soc. Chem. Industry : Dr. L. H. Baekeland. 



Associations, societies, etc.: Ofificers-elect. Amer. Assoc. 

 Clinical Research. Pres., Warren Coleman; first vice-p., Wm. 

 B. Snow; second vice-p., L. T. Aschraft; perm. sec. James Kraus, 



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