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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



professor of hyg'.ene and physical edu- 

 cation at Amherst College; of Pro- 

 fessor Frank J. Phillips, head of the 

 department of forestry in the Uni- 

 versity of Nebraska; of Dr. Walter 

 Remsen Brinckerhoff, assistant profes- 

 sor of pathology in the Harvard Medi- 

 cal School; of Dr. Aloysius Oliver 

 Joseph Kelly, assistant professor of 

 medicine in the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, and of Professor J. H. van't 

 Hoff, eminent for his contributions to 

 physical chemistry. 



The congress has passed a bill to 

 retire Commander Robert E. Peary, 

 with the rank and pay of a rear- 

 admiral and to extend to him the 

 thanks of congress. — Sir William H. 

 White has been awarded the John 

 Fritz medal for 1911, for "notable 

 achievements in naval architecture," 

 by the national societies of civil, 

 mining, mechanical and electrical engi- 

 neering. The first award was made in 

 1905 to Lord Kelvin, and subsequently 

 o Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas A. 

 Edison, George Westinghouse, Charles 

 Porter and Alfred Noble. — Various 

 honors have teen conferred on Dr. Paul 

 Ehrlich, director of the Institute for 

 Experimental Therapeutics at Frank- 

 fort, whose work was the subject of an 

 article in the last issue of the Monthly. 

 The Emperor of Russia has con- 



feired on him the Order of St. Anne 

 First Class, with a badge set in dia- 

 monds. The King of Spain has be- 

 stowed on him the Grand Cross of the 

 Order of Alfonso XII. The German 

 Emperor has nominated him a mem- 

 ber of the senate of the recently 

 founded Kaiser Wilhelm Society for 

 the Advancement of Science; on this 

 body he is the only representative of 

 medicine. The St. Petersburg Insti- 

 tute of Experimental Therapeutics has 

 elected him an honorary member. The 

 municipal authorities of Buenos Aires 

 have given Professor Ehrlich 's name 

 to a street in the suburb of San 

 Fernando. 



iM. AUGUSTE LOUTKEFIL has be- 

 queathed $700,000 to the Paris Aca- 

 demy of Sciences, $500,000 to the Uni- 

 versity of Paris and $20,000 to the 

 Pasteur Institute. — Herr Leopold Kop- 

 pel, a Berlin banker, has given $175,000 

 for the erection of a research institute 

 for physical chemistry in Berlin and 

 will make a further gift of $87,500 ex- 

 tended over the next ten years for 

 maintenance. — It is announced that 

 Professor Hans Meyer has presented 

 150,000 Marks to the University of 

 Leipzig for the laboratory of experi- 

 mental psychology established by Pro- 

 fessor Wilhelm Wundt. 



