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Asiatic Society of Bengal, -will 'be held at Luck- 

 now on January 8 to 13, 1923. The congress 

 irill be opened by Sir Spencer Hareourt But- 

 ler, governor of the United Provinces, who has 

 consented to be patron. The president of the 

 congress is Sir M. Visesvaraya, and the presi- 

 dents of 'the sections are as follows : Agricul- 

 ture: Dr. Kunjan Pillai, Trivandrum ; physics: 

 Dr. S. K. Banerji, director of the Observatory, 

 Oolaba, Bombay; chemistry: Dr. A. N. Mel- 

 drum, Royal Institute, Bombay, botany: Mrs. 

 Howard, Pusa; zoology: Professor G. Matthai, 

 Giovernment OoMege, Lahore; geology: Dr. 

 Paseoe, Indian Museum, Calcutta; medical re- 

 search: Lieutenant Colonel Sprawson, Luck- 

 now; anthropology: Dr. J. J. Modi, Bombay. 

 In -addition to the regular program of the 

 meetings of the scientific sections, a series of 

 general scientific discussions has been organ- 

 ized, beginning with one on colloids by Dr. 

 S. S. Bhatnagar, of Benares. A series of illus- 

 trated public lectures on sabjects of popular 

 scientific interest has also been arranged, de- 

 tails of which will be announced later. Fur- 

 ther particulars regarding itlhe congress may toe 

 o'btained from Dr. C. V. Eaman, general secre- 

 tary, Indian Science Congress, 210 Bowbazaar 

 Street, Calcutta. 



The Colorado College science departments 

 have for two years maintained an under- 

 graduate honorary society. Delta Epsilon. The 

 purpose of the organization is to stimulate 

 interest in scientific research and achievement. 

 Members are elected on the basis of pa-omise of 

 research ability. At the first meeting of this 

 aicademic year R. J. Gilmore, professor of 

 biology, discussed "Hormones and heredity." 



Ukder the will of the late Dr. Carl von 

 Ruck, Asheville, N. C, approximately $700,000 

 has been bequeathed for scientific research 

 work on the prevention and cure of tubercu- 

 losis. The von Ruck Research Laboratory will 

 have charge of the fund, and the earnings .are 

 'to be expended by the corporation for "scien- 

 tiflc research, study and experiment in tuber- 

 culosis and for the aid of tuberculous patients 

 who are unable to procure 'adequate and satis- 

 factory treatment." 



At the annual dinner of the London School 

 of Tropical Medicine, held on November 1, it 

 was announced by Sir Arthur Robinson of the 

 ministry of health that a scheme was under 

 consideration whereby the London School of 

 Tropical Medicine would be incoi-porated with 

 the new Institute of Hygiene, which was made 

 'possible by a gift from the Rockefeller Foran- 

 dation of New York. Sir Havelock Charles 

 said that, if the 'aspirations of the school were 

 met, the support of the 'stafl: and students 

 would 'be freely given the new arrangements. 



Through the president, M. Appcll, the Mar- 

 quise of Aroonati-Visconti has given the sum 

 of 100,000 francs to the Fi-ench National Com- 

 mittee to Aid Scientific Research. 



The Paris correspondent of the Journal of 

 tlie American Medical Association writes that 

 Fi-ench laboratories "are lacking in financial 

 resources, and that they find it difficult to sup- 

 ply what is indispensable, in the way of instru- 

 ments and to secure the new men needed. This 

 state of affairs, so profoundly regrettable, was 

 clearly brought out 'at a recent meeting of a 

 group of scientists held under the auspices of 

 the Bienvenue frangaise, 'to which representa- 

 tives of the lay press had been invited. Two 

 ways are open to remedy the situation. Pro- 

 fessor Appell, rector of the University of Paris, 

 has announced that a national committee for 

 the aid of scientific research has been founded. 

 It is also planned to addi'ess an appeal to M. 

 Poinoare, president of the council of ministers, 

 to authorize, in connection with the centenary 

 of Pasteur, a journee nationale in favor of our 

 laboratories." 



In the course of a field trip the past summer 

 with a class from the University of Chicago, 

 Dr. Adolph C. Noe, assistant professor of 

 paleobotany, secured from Mr. C. D. Young, 

 of Moms, Illinois, a valua;ble collection of 

 fossil plants and animaJs from the Mazon 

 Creek. Mr. Young, who is master in chancery 

 of Grundy County, presented the collection to 

 the University of Chicago. It consists of 900 

 choice specimens selected from a great number 

 which Mr. Young has been collecting through 

 nearly forty years, and is the last great private 



