December 5, 1919] 



SCIENCE 



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of physiological chemistry. University of 

 Pennsylvania; and A. F. Woods, botanist, 

 president of Maryland State College of 

 Agriculture. 



This committee wiU devote its attention 

 and activities to the solution of important 

 problems connected with the nutritional values 

 and most effective grouping and preparation 

 of foods, both for human and animal use. 

 Special attention will be given to national 

 food conditions and to comprehensive prob- 

 lems involving the coordinated services of 

 numerous investigators and laboratories. The 

 committee, with the support of the council, is 

 arranging to obtain funds for the support of 

 its researches, and will get under way, just 

 as soon as possible, certain specific investiga- 

 tions already formulated by individual com- 

 mittee members and sub-committees. These 

 include studies of the comparative food values 

 of meat and milk and of the conditions of 

 production of these foods in the United 

 States, together with the whole problem of 

 animal nutrition; the food conditions in hos- 

 pitals, asylums and similar institutions; the 

 nutritional standards of infancy and adoles- 

 cence; the formation of a national institute 

 of nutrition; and other problems of similarly 

 large and nationally important character. 



THE ELIZABETH THOMPSON SCIENCE FUND 



At a meeting of the trustees of the Eliza- 

 beth Thompson Science Fimd, held on Thurs- 

 day, IN'ovember 20, the following grants were 

 voted : two hundred and fifty dollars to Pro- 

 fessor Duncan S. Johnson, of Johns Hopkins 

 University, for studies on the Development, 

 Persistence and Growth of the Cactaceaj and 

 Certain Myrtacse; two hundred dollars to 

 Professor Antonio Pensa, of the University of 

 Sassari, Italy, for investigations on the Cytol- 

 ogy of Vegetable Cells; and three hundred 

 dollars to Professor Lawrence J. Henderson, 

 of Harvard University, for a research on the 

 Heats of Reaction of Oxygen and Carbon 

 Dioxide with Hsemoglobin solutions. 



The Elizabeth Thompson Science Fund has 

 been serviceable for many years in giving aid, 

 by small grants, to research which otherwise 

 might not be readily undertaken. The grants 



are made only for scientific investigations 

 and must be applied to actual expenses of the 

 research, i. e., they are not made to support 

 an investigator or to meet the ordinary ex- 

 penses of publication. The trustees give 

 preference to researches involving interna- 

 tional cooperation. The grants are not made 

 for researches of narrow or merely local 

 interest, nor are they available for equipment 

 of private laboratories or for piirchase of 

 apparatus ordinarily to be found in scientific 

 institutions. Applications for grants from 

 this fund should be made before January 15, 

 1920, to Professor W. B. Cannon, secretary 

 of the trustees of the fund. Harvard Medical 

 School, Boston, Mass. 



ENDOWMENT OF THE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF 

 VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY 



Announcement is made that the General 

 Education Board of New York, has appro- 

 priated the sum of $4,000,000 for the purpose 

 of enabling the Vanderbilt University to 

 effect an entire reorganization of its medical 

 school, in accordance with the most exacting 

 demands of modern medical education. 



The faculty of the medical school has for 

 some years been urging upon the trustees of 

 the university the necessity of radical and 

 thoroughgoing organization, and it is prom- 

 ised its hearty and imconditional cooperation 

 in the establishing of a new school of medi- 

 cine in Nashville, as an integral department 

 of Vanderbilt University. 



Detailed plans for the new school have not 

 as yet been developed, but they will unques- 

 tionably involve the completion of the present 

 Galloway Memorial Hospital, with enlarged 

 faculties for public patients, the erection in 

 the near future of an additional hospital unit, 

 the organization of a modern laboratory build- 

 ing, and the appointment of an increased 

 number of professors, giving their entire time 

 to the school and hospital, in both laboratory 

 and clinical branches. Thus, not only will 

 the endowment of the medical school be very 

 greatly increased, but it will start its career 

 with a modern and up-to-date plant — ^labora- 

 tory as well as hospital. 



It is stated that this contribution by the 



