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James H. Wright. Material removed at sur- 

 gical operations can be sent to the laboratory 

 by any registered physician in Massachusetts, 

 and a pathologic examination of the tissue will 

 be made, with a report as to its nature, and 

 returned without expense to the physician or 

 his patient. Dr. Henry P. Wolcott, chairman 

 of the cancer commission, and Dean David L. 

 Edsall, of the Harvard Medical School, who 

 was the presiding officer, gave addresses at the 

 ceremony. 



We learn from Nature that a prize of $5,000 

 is offered by Mr. Frank J. D. Barnjum of 

 Montreal for a practical method of combating 

 and suppressing the spruce bud worm, bark 

 beetle and borer, which have caused such tre- 

 mendous damage in the forests of Eastern 

 Canada and the United States. The Province 

 of Quebec alone has suffered a loss during the 

 past ten years of 150,000,000 cords of standing 

 pulpwood by these pests, which represents a 

 market value in pulpwood of three billion dol- 

 lars, or if manufactured into paper, of seven 

 billion dollars. This represents a loss of wood 

 suflcient for forty-five years' requirements for 

 newsprint for the North American continent. 

 The competition will close on August 1, and 

 the $5,000 will be given for the successful sug- 

 gestion that is accepted by the judges, who will 

 be Sir William Price of Messrs. Price Bros., 

 Quebec; Dr. C. D. Howe, dean of the faculty 

 of forestry, Toronto University; Mr. Fred A. 

 Gilbert, Great Northern Paper Company, Ban- 

 gor, Maine; Mr. G. C. Piche, chief of forest 

 service, Quebec, and Mr. Ellwood Wilson, 

 Laurentide Company, Grand Mere, Quebec. 

 Competitive suggestions should reach Mr. 

 Frank D. J. Barnjum, New Birks Building, 

 Montreal, Canada, before August 1. 



At the time of the celebration of the cen- 

 tennial of Pasteur's birth, in Strasbourgh, a 

 congress of hygiene and bacteriology will be 

 held for discussion of questions relating to 

 disease. In order to show the sympathy of 

 Great Britain with the projects of the French 

 committee, a British committee composed of 

 the following members has been formed: Sir 

 Charles Sherrington, chairman, A. Chaston, 

 H. E. Field, Professor Percy R. Frankland, Sir 



John M'Fadyean, Professor C. J. Martin, Sir 

 W. J. Pope, Sir James Walker and Sir Almroth 

 Wright. 



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By the will of Frederic C. Penfield, who last 

 served the United States in Austria as ambassa- 

 dor, $80,000 each is left to New York Univer- 

 sity, the University of Pennsylvania and the 

 Catholic University, for Penfield scholarships 

 in diplomacy and international affairs. 



By the will of Seymour Coman of Chicago, 

 the University of Chicago is made trustee of his 

 residuary estate, estimated to be approximately 

 $145,000, the net income to be used for scientific 

 research, with special reference to preventive 

 medicine and the cause, prevention and cure of 

 diseases. This bequest to be known as the 

 Seymour Coman Research Fund. 



Stevens Institute of Technology has se- 

 cured from the United States government the 

 two buildings erected by the Navy Department 

 for the use of the steam engineering school eon- 

 ducted by the Navy at Stevens during the war. 

 The smaller building has been remodeled to 

 house the college library and the museum. One 

 wing of the larger building has been adapted as 

 a laboratory for the department of electrical 

 engineering. The United States government 

 has paid back to the trustees of the Stevens 

 Institute of Technology a tax of $45,750 paid 

 by the original trustees on the bequest pro- 

 viding for the foundation and endowment of 

 the institute in 1870. 



The gift of £100,000 by an unnamed bene- 

 factor was announced by Lord Haldane on 

 June 14 on the occasion of the laying of the 

 foundation-stone of the new University College, 

 Nottingham, which is to form the nucleus of 

 the East Midlands University. The buUdings 

 will be situated in a large park lying between 

 Nottingham and Beeston. This was given by 

 Sir Jesse Boot, who had already made dona- 

 tions, amounting to £110,000. 



Five additional professors for the medical 

 department of the University of Georgia are 

 announced as follows : Dr. Eliot R. Clark, from 



