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daughter, Helen, " in unqualified and absolute 

 ownership," but with this suggestion: "It 

 would, nevertheless, be agreeable to me that 

 she should dispose of these amounts, that my 

 general purpose in making these legacies 

 should be accomplished, but this is merely the 

 expression of my wish." 



Institutions receiving one share or about 

 $500,000 each are as follows: 



Pittsburgh Free Dispensary, Pittsburgh, 

 one share. 



Pittsburgh Newsboys' Home, one share. 



Western Pennsylvania Hospital, Pittsburgh, 

 one share. 



Central Young Women's Christian Asso- 

 ciation, Pittsburgh, one share. 



Uniontown Hospital, in Fayette county. 

 Pa., one share. 



Cottage State Hospital, in Connellsville, 

 Pa., one share. 



Westmoreland Hospital, in Greensburg, Pa., 

 one share. 



Mount Pleasant Memorial Hospital, of 

 Moimt Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pa., 

 one share. 



Braddock General Hospital, of Allegheny 

 county, Pa., one share. 



Homestead Hospital, of Homestead, Pa., 

 one share. 



Children's Hospital, Pittsburgh, One share. 



Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, 

 one share. 



Home for the Friendless, Pittsburgh, one 



Kingsley Home Association, Pittsburgh, 

 one share. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Dr. Richaed M. Pearce, professor of re- 

 search medicine in the University of Penn- 

 sylvania imder the John Herr Musser Foun- 

 dation, has accepted the position of director 

 of the newly established division of medical 

 education of the Rockefeller Foundation. 

 Dr. Pearce has sailed for Europe to carry out 

 work in the interest of the foundation. 



Dr. E. a. Peterson, of Cleveland, Ohio, has 

 been appointed director of the health service 

 department recently created by the American 



Red Cross to administer its peace-time activi- 

 ties in the health field. Dr. Peterson served 

 during 1918-1919 as major with the American 

 Red Cross commission on tuberculosis to 

 Italy and had charge of the department of 

 school hygiene. For the previous eight years 

 he had been the director of the Department of 

 School Health in Cleveland, Ohio. He has 

 taken up the work and is located at National 

 Headquarters, Am.erican Red Cross, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



Dr p. G. Aonew has resigned as physicist 

 at the Bureau of Standards to become secre- 

 tary of the American Engineering Standards 

 Committee, with headquarters in the Engi- 

 neering Building, 29 West 29th Street, New 

 York. 



The National Academy of Sciences has 

 awarded its medal for eminence in the appli- 

 cation of science to the public welfare to Mr. 

 Herbert C. Hoover for his applications of 

 science in the conservation, selection and dis- 

 tribution of food. The medal will be con- 

 ferred at the April meeting of the academy. 



William Orpen, will paint a presentation 

 portrait of Sir Clifford Allbutt, president of 

 the British Medical Association, and a 

 mezzotint engraving of the portrait will be 

 executed by Mr. H. Macbeth-Reaburn. 



The annual address of the Entomological 

 Society of America, at its St. Louis meeting, 

 will be given by Dr. J. W. Holland, director 

 of the Carnegie Institute, on the evening of 

 December 30, the subject being " The evolu- 

 tion of entomological science in North 

 America." 



Professor T. L. Hankinson, of the Eastern 

 Illinois State Normal School, has accepted the 

 position of ichthyologist at the Roosevelt Wild 

 Life Forest Experiment Station, at the New 

 York State College of Forestry at Syracuse. 

 This station was established last May by the 

 legislature of New York as a Wild Life Me- 

 morial to Theodore Roosevelt. Professor Han- 

 kinson will begin his duties at Syracuse on 

 January 1. During the past five summers he 

 has been working for the college on state fish 

 surveys, in cooi>eration with Dr. Charles C. 



