220 Biochemical News, Notes, and Comment 



Winnebago Co. Med. Soc, Rockford, 111.; Apr. ii: Dr. E. H. 

 Ochsner, Biochem. of topical applications. 



Yale Univ., Sigma Xi; Mar. i : Prof. C. R. Stockard, Experi- 

 mental studies on the influence of alcohol in development and in- 

 heritance. — Mar. i8: Prof. J. McK. Cattell, Scientific research as 

 a profession. 



Prizes. Adamachi prize, Roumanian Acad. of Sei. : Drs. A. 

 Babes and V. Busila (Bucharest), for a comprehensive report on 

 Pellagra in Roumania. 



Ellen Richards Research Prize. The Naples Table Assoc. 

 for Promoting Lab. Research by Women announces the off er of an 

 8th prize of $i,ooo for the best thesis written by a woman, on a 

 scientific subject. This thesis must embody new observations and 

 new conclusions based on independent lab. research in biol. (in- 

 cluding psychol.), ehem. or phys. science. The theses ofTered must 

 be in the hands of the ch'r'n of the commit. on the prize, Dr. Lilian 

 Welsh, Goucher Coli., Balt., Md., before Feb. 25, ipiy. The title 

 page of each manuscript must bear an assumed name; and the writer 

 must send with her manuscript, a sealed envelope containing her 

 application blank and superscribed with her assumed name. The 

 B'd of Examiners, for 1916-17, are Drs. W. H. Howell (J. Hop- 

 kins Med. Seh.), E. P. Kohler (Harvard Univ.), and Henry Crew, 

 (Northw. Univ.). In April, 191 1, the prize was named the Ellen 

 Richards Research Prize, in recognition of the devoted service of 

 Mrs. Richards as ch'r'n of the commit. on the prize from its estab- 

 lishment in 1900. 



Paris Acad. of Sei. Proposed prizes for 1917: Chem. — Jecker 

 PR. (10,000 f.), for work leading to progress in org. chem. ; 

 Cahours pr. (3,000 f.), for encouragement of young chemists who 

 have already published good work; Montyon pr. (2,500 f.), for 

 a means of rendering an art or calling less unhealthy; Houzeau pr. 

 (700 f.), to reward a promising young chemist; Berthelot pr. 

 (500 f.), for researches in chem. synthesis. Med. and surg. — 

 Montyon pr. (2,500 f.), for work most useful in the art of heal- 

 ing; Barbier pr. (2,000 f.), for a valuable discovery in surg., med., 

 or pharmaceut. science, or in botany in relation to med. ; Breaut pr. 

 (100,000 f.), for a radical eure for Asiatic cholera. Physiol. — 



