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and 1923-24. His subject will be "Evolution, 

 emergent and creative." The first course will 

 begin about the end of next October. 



In memory of the late Dr. Howard M. 

 Fussell, friends, of&cers and students of the 

 Medical School of the university, have pre- 

 sented his portrait to the university. The 

 formal presentation was made by Dr. David 

 Riesman and the portrait was accepted on 

 behalf of the university by the acting provost. 

 Dr. Josiah H. Penniman. Dr. James M. 

 Anders presided. 



The Merida branch of the Mexican Medical 

 Association will hold a medical contest in honor 

 of Pasteur. The prizes will consist of medals 

 and diplomas to local physicians who submit 

 the best papers on local diseases and means of 

 control. The prizes will be awarded on De- 

 cember 27, the centenary of Pasteur's birth. 



The portrait medallion of Sir Norman 

 Lockyer, by Sir Hamo Thornycroft, at the 

 Norman Lockyer Observatory, Saleombe Hill, 

 Sidmouth, was unveiled by Sir Frank Dyson, 

 astronomer royal, on July 22. 



De. Jokichi Takamine, who established the 

 Takamine Research Laboratory at Clifton, 

 N. J., known for his work on diastatic ferments 

 and the active principles of the suprarenel 

 glands, died on July 22. Dr. Takamine was 

 born in Tokyo in 1854. 



Dr. Simon Nelson Patten, from 1888 to 

 1917 professor of political economy in the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, known for his con- 

 tributions to economics, including the relations 

 of the natural sciences to sociology, died on 

 July 25, aged seventy years. 



The Honorable Huia Onslow, known for his 

 work on the relations of biochemistry to 

 genetics which he carried on in his private lab- 

 oratory at Cambridge, has died at the age of 

 thirty-two years. 



The sum of $40,000 has been donated to St. 

 Luke's Hospital, Chicago, ib5' Mrs. John J. 

 Borland in memory of her husband. This 

 fund is to endow a fellowship for clinical 

 investigation and is to be under the immediate 

 supervision of Dr. Joseph A. Capps. 



The late Prince of Monaco has bequeathed 

 sums of one millions francs each to the Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, the Academy of Medicine, 

 the Institut Oeeanographique, the Institut de 

 Paleontologie Humaine of Paris, and the 

 Musee Oeeanographique of Monaco. 



Ten government departments have appoint- 

 ed representatives on an advisory committee 

 on governmental broadcasting formed at the 

 request of Secretary Hoover to make recom- 

 mendations on the distribution of government 

 information by radio. A preliminary classifi- 

 cation of the kind of information that should 

 be broadcasted from various stations is being 

 made. The conmiittee mil meet at frequent 

 intervals to consider the questions that arise 

 througli the progress of radio. Dr. S. W. 

 Stratton, director of the Bureau of Standards, 

 is chairman. 



An Associated Press despatch from Moscow 

 states that after a month's negotiations, Leo 

 Kameneff, the acting premier, has definitely 

 refused the American Relief Administration's 

 conditions for feeding the Russian intellectuals 

 as a class. The Commonwealth Fund offered 

 to send food packages to the value of approxi- 

 mately $250,000 to Russia for distribution by 

 the Relief Administration among professors, 

 teachers, doctors, scientists and others selected 

 by the relief authorities. The latter were ready 

 for the government to cooperate in the dis- 

 tribution, but insisted that the final decision as 

 to what persons should receive the packets 

 should rest with the Relief Administration. 

 The government, according to M. Kameneff, is 

 willing to permit the Relief Administration to 

 veto any of the government's selections of bene- 

 ficiaries, but it is not willing that any outside 

 organization be permitted to assist persons 

 despite a Soviet veto. 



The first meeting of the newly formed Asso- 

 ciation of Maine Geologists will be held on 

 August 11 in Auburn and Lewiston. Professor 

 Frank D. Tubbs, of Bates College, N. B. Tracy, 

 of Auburn, L. C. Bateman, of the Lewiston 

 Journal, and other members of the local com- 

 mittee have arranged a program that will take 

 in all the points of geological interest in the 

 vicinity. These include Mt. Apatite, the source 



