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ture are asking the goTemors to reopen the 

 college for its originally intended purposes, 

 and have promised, subject to certain condi- 

 tions a small, annual grant towards its main- 

 tenance. The governors are anxious to take 

 this course, they have considered and approved 

 a curriculum of greater general utility and of 

 a more practical character than that formerly 

 pursued at the college, and have conditionally 

 secured the services of a principal of excep- 

 tional qualifications. In an appeal issued on 

 behalf of the governors. Lord Bledisloe (chair- 

 man) and Lord Bathurst (vice-chairman) 

 urge that "never, in the best interests of 

 British Agriculture, was there greater need 

 than there is to-day for the practical training 

 of our present and future landowners, estate 

 agents and larger farmers in improved meth- 

 ods of agriculture, in the economic adminis- 

 tration of niral estates, in practical forestry, 

 or in local government." 



"We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that the Academia de 

 Ciencias Medicas of Havana has announced 

 the foll6wing prizes for the year 1921 : Presi- 

 dent Gutierrez' prize, 400 pesos, for the best 

 work on the necessity of a National Formu- 

 lary; Ganongo prize, 200 pesos for the best 

 work on any medical subject; Gordon prize 

 (physiology), a gold medal, for the best work 

 on correlation of the endocrine glands. The 

 papers must be sent to the secretary of the 

 academy (calle de Cuba, numero 84- A) before 

 March 31, 1921. They must be original, must 

 not have been published before, and may be 

 in Spanish, English or French. 



New Year honors conferred in Great 

 Britain on scientific men are recorded in 

 Nature as follows: Privy Councillor: The Eev. 

 Dr. Thomas Hamilton, for service to the 

 cause of education in Ireland, first as Presi- 

 dent of Queen's College, Belfast, and after- 

 wards as President and Vice-Chancellor of the 

 Queen's University of. Belfast. Knights: Pro- 

 P. R. Scott Lang, for more than forty years 

 Regius professor of mathematics in the Uni- 

 versity of St. Andrews; Mr. P. J. Michelli, 

 secretary to the London School of Tropical 



Medicine; Dr. S. S. Sprigge, editor of the 

 Lancet; Professor James Walker, professor of 

 chemistry. University of Edinburgh; and Dr. 

 Dawson Williams, editor of the British Med- 

 ical Journal. C.M.O.: Mr. I. B. Pole Evans, 

 chief of the division of botany and plant 

 pathology, Department of Agricvilture, Union 

 of South Africa. CJ.E.: Lieutennnt-Colonel 

 W. F. Harvey, director of the Central Re- 

 search Institute, Kasauli, Punjab, and Dr. 

 E. J. Butler, formerly Imperial Mycologist, 

 Pusa. K.C.V.O.: Dr. F. S. Hewett. 



, The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that its Paris exchanges for the 

 last week in December were crowded with ac- 

 counts of the elaborate festivities of the cen- 

 tenary of the Academy of Medicine. The en- 

 tire issue of the Presse medicale for December 

 25 is devoted to an illustrated description, with 

 the addresses delivered by Laveran, the present 

 president of the academy, and others. The 

 official delegates from other countries included 

 sixteen from England, five from the United 

 States; eleven from Belgium, including Bor- 

 det, Brachet and Willems; Arteaga, from Bo- 

 livia; O. de Oliveira, from Brazil; Cordova, 

 Donoso, Orego and Sierra, from Chile; Es- 

 jguerra and Machado from Colomlbia; Cueva 

 and Villamar, from Ecuador; Nourgo and 

 Nobles from Guatemala; Arce and Chutro, 

 from Argentina ; two delegates also from Peru ; 

 Silva, from Salvador; Carlos, Fonseca, Tijera, 

 Rincones, Risquez and Velasquez, from Vene- 

 zuela; Ito and Tsuchiga from Japan; 0. Pei- 

 Huan, from China; Robert from Siam, and 

 Cassens from Haiti. Twenty-nine countries 

 were represented in all. A medal to commemo- 

 rate the occasion was struck. The president of 

 the republic of France was present with two of 

 his ministers and all the prefets of the departe- 

 ment. The celebration concluded with a ban- 

 quet and a reception at the Palais d'Orsay. 

 Ttasts were offered at the banquet by Cassens, 

 for Haiti; Recasens, for Spain; van der Berg, 

 for Holland; Cueva, for Ecuador; KalUontzis, 

 for Greece, and Lucatello, for Italy. Wright, 

 pi England, was seated at the right hand of 

 the president of the academy. 



