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MoNTYON PR. (750 f.), for work in exper. physiol.; Pourat pr. 

 (1,000 f.), for work 011 the relation between combined sugar and 

 protein of the blood. 



Raymond Horton-Smith Prize (Cambridge) : Dr. E. Mel- 

 lanby, for a thesis on Cause and treatment of diarrhea and vomiting 

 in children. 



The 20th Cent. Club, Detroit, Mich., offers three prizes of $20, 

 $10, and $5, resp.,for the best three stories, containing between 

 2,000 and 5,000 words, on the effects of cigaret smoking. The 

 stories will furnish material for a volume of anti-cigaret literature 

 for use in school libraries. All stories in competition must be sent 

 to the ch'r'n of the Anti-Cigaret Commit., Mrs. O. E. Angstman, 

 2yy Putnam Ave., Detroit, Mich., by June 15, 1916. 



Medal. Nichols medal, Amer. Chem. Soc, N. Y. Sect. : Dr. 

 C. S. Hudson, in recognition of his work on carbohydrates. 



Journalistic. New Journals. Jour. of Bacteriology: Official 

 organ, Soc. of Amer. Bacteriologists. Ed.-in-ch., C.-E. A. Whis- 

 low; man'g ed., A. P. Hitchens; with 22 "advis. editors" and 31 

 "abstr. editors." Bi-monthly: subscr. price, $5.00 per vol. 



The Phila. Sect. of the Amer. Chem. Soc. is publishing a monthly 

 paper, " The Catalyst." 



Soll Science: "Devoted to problems in soil physics, soll ehem., 

 and soil biology." Ed.-in-ch., Dr. /. G. Lipman. Among the 

 group of internat. collab. are Drs. F. J. Alway, H. J. Conn, E. J. 

 Russell and Oswald Schreiner. Monthly: subscr. price, $3.00 per 

 vol. 



Physiological Abstracts. See page 252. 



Jour. Biol. Chem. Dr. C. /. West has been elected a member 

 of the b'd of ed. of the Jour. of Biol. Chem. His service began 

 with the Feb. issue. 



Fellov^rships. Columbia Univ. : A gift of $2,400, from Mrs. 

 F. S. Coolidge, for the maintenance of research fellowships in med. 



Harvard Med. Seh. : Drs. W. R. Ohler, E. F. Walsh, J. A. 

 Wentworth, fellows in chem. 



The Mary Putnam Jacohi Fellowship has been awarded to Dr. 

 Mildred Clark (Johns Hopkins, 1914), who will use the feil, for re- 

 search in med. bacteriol. in Dr. T. C. Janeway's dep't at Johns 

 Hopkins Hosp. 



