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Ind. Thirteen ascensions were made at Fort 

 Omalia and seven at Indianapolis. Owing to 

 an unforeseen difSculty at the last-named place 

 the full program could not be completed. All 

 the meteorographs sent up at Indianapolis 

 have been recovered and thus far about one 

 half of the Omaha instruments have been 

 returned. 



The American Academy of Medicine vcill 

 hold its third mid-year meeting at Yale Uni- 

 versity on November 11 and 12, when it will 

 conduct a conference on " The prevention of 

 infant mortality." There will be four ses- 

 sions devoted, respectively, to medical, philan- 

 thropic, institutional and educational preven- 

 tion, before which papers will be presented by 

 distinguished speakers. 



Dr. Von Brunck, of the " Badische Anilin," 

 has made a gift of 50,000 Marks to the Munich 

 Academy on the occasion of the fortieth anni- 

 versary of his entry in the industry. 



Nature states that prizes to the value of 

 £1,500 are offered by the National Medical 

 Academy of Mexico for work on typhus fever. 

 Of the sum named, £1,000 will be awarded to 

 the discoverer of the cause of typhus, or of a 

 curative serum, and £500 to the investigators 

 whose work is judged most useful in helping 

 towards such discovery. The competition is 

 international, but all essays must be written 

 in Spanish. They can be received up to 

 February 28, 1911. 



The Herter lectures at the University and 

 Bellevue Hospital Medical College will be 

 given this year by Professor Otto Cohnheim, 

 of the University of Heidelberg. The lectures 

 begin on Monday, December 6, at 4 p.m., and 

 continue daily throughout the week. The 

 subject is "Enzymes and their Actions." 

 Those interested are cordially invited to at- 

 tend. 



The fourth lecture in the series under the 

 J. C. Campbell lecture fund was given on 

 October 19, before the society of the Sigma Xi 

 at Ohio State University, by Professor H. T. 

 Eicketts, of the University of Chicago. The 

 subject of the address was " The Transmission 

 of Disease by Insects." 



On the program of the meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Philosophical Society for November 5 is 

 a paper on " The Correlation of the Gastric 

 and Intestinal Digestive Processes and the 

 Influence of Emotions upon them " (with X- 

 ray illustrations of the movements of the food 

 in the digestive organs), by Dr. W. B. Can- 

 non, professor of physiology in Harvard Uni- 

 versity. 



Professor Otto Folin, of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, has delivered a lecture before the Acad- 

 emy of Medicine, Cleveland, O., on " Ten 

 Years' Progress in the Field of Metabolism." 



The American ambassador presided at the 

 opening meeting of the winter session of the 

 London School of Tropical Medicine, on Oc- 

 tober 26, when Professor W. Osier, M.D., 

 F.E.S., regius professor of medicine at Oxford 

 University, made the address on " The Nation 

 and the Tropics." 



The Bradshaw lecture of the Royal College 

 of Physicians of London, delivered on Novem- 

 ber 2 by Professor J. A. Lindsay, was on 

 " Darwinism and Medicine." The FitzPat- 

 rick lectures by Sir T. Clifford Allbutt, on 

 November 4 and 9, are on " Greek Medicine 

 in Pome." 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that the dedication of the monu- 

 ment to the memory of Professor P. Tillaux 

 took place in the amphitheater of anatomy of 

 the hospitals of Paris on October 29. This 

 monument was the last work of the sculptor 

 Chaplain. It is in marble, and represents 

 Tillaux standing, his right hand on a half- 

 dissected cadaver, giving his lesson in anat- 

 omy. The monument stands in the garden of 

 the amphitheater where Tillaux was director 

 of anatomy before being appointed professor 

 in the medical school. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Following the acceptance of the gift by 

 Mr. W. C. Procter of $500,000 for the Grad- 

 uate College of Princeton University, the 

 trustees have chosen as its site the land added 

 to the campus in 1905. This tract is a short 

 distance to the southwest of the central cam- 

 pus. It contains 240 acres, sloping to the 



