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April 19. "An informal talk," Professor P. 

 GoTvland Hopkins. 



May 5. "Glimpses backward into the history 

 of metabolism," Professor Graham Lusk. 



May 9. ' ' The urinary sugar secretion, ' ' Pro- 

 fessor S. G. Benedict. 



The Dean and Chapter of Westminster 

 Abbey bave decided to place a bronze medal- 

 lion in the Abbey as a memorial of Sir 

 William Kamsay. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that at a recent meeting 

 of some of Sir William Osier's students, an 

 Osier Memorial Association was formed for 

 the purpose of founding an Osier memorial 

 lectureship at the University of California, 

 which will provide for an annual lecture on 

 a scientific subject. The expense will be met 

 by a yearly assessment of the members of the 

 association. Dr. George H. Whipple, presi- 

 dent of the California Academy of Medicine, 

 has advised that the academy will be glad to 

 cooperate in securing lecturers and in sharing 

 the expense. Dr. John M. T. Finney, Balti- 

 more, has accepted an invitation to deliver 

 the first lecture. 



On February 24, the Berlin Opbthabnolog- 

 ical Society held a special session in honor of 

 the semicentennial of Albrecht von Graefe's 

 death. The only living former assistant of 

 Graefe, the ophthalmologist Professor Julius 

 Hirshberg, now seventy-eight years of age, 

 delivered the memorial address. 



Dr. Henry Platt Cushing, for thirty years 

 professor of geology in Western Reserve Uni- 

 versity, Cleveland, and for about the same 

 time geologist in the Adirondack region for 

 the Geological Survey of New York, died on 

 April 14. 



The late Harold C. Lloyd, a British sub- 

 ject residing in Sao Paulo, has bequeathed 

 aU his property in Sao Paulo to the Instituto 

 Oswaldo Cruz, of which Professor Carlos 

 Chagas is director, at Manguinhos, near Rio 

 de Janeiro. The bequest is to be applied ex- 

 clusively to promote research on prevention 

 and treatment of infectious diseases. 



The appropriation by Congress to the 

 Forest Products Laboratory, at Madison, 

 Wis., has been increased by approximately 

 $100,000. 



By the will of the late Dr. Alexander Muir- 

 head, F.R.S., who was associated with Sir 

 Oliver Lodge in work on wireless telegraphy, 

 and who died on December 13, aged seventy- 

 two, the Royal Society of London receives the 

 sum of £3,000. 



With the aid of a gift from Dr. Adolph 

 Barkan, emeritus professor of the Stanford 

 Medical School, the university is gathering in 

 the Lane Library of the medical school in San 

 Francisco a collection on the history of medi- 

 cine. Dr. Barkan will give $1,000 a year for 

 the next three years, to which the university 

 will be able to add from the income from cer- 

 tain Lane Library Foundations $1,500 a year, 

 making a total fund of $7,500, all of which 

 will be expended on hooks concerning the his- 

 tory of medicine. Dr. Barkan is now in Eu- 

 rope and he has employed an expert to aid him 

 in getting together this collection. Dr. Bar- 

 kan was professor of structure and diseases of 

 the eye, ear and larynx in the medical school 

 and retired from active teaching in 1911. He 

 has before this been a liberal benefactor of the 

 Medical School Library, having given his own 

 library dealing with the subjects in his own 

 ispecial field, together with $10,000 as a fund 

 for the purchase of other books on these sub- 

 jects. 



The thirty-second session of the Biological 

 Laboratory of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts 

 and Sciences, which is located at Cold Spring 

 Harbor, Long Island, New York, will be held 

 next summer. The regular course work ex- 

 tends from July 6 to August 16. Courses are 

 given in field zoology by Drs. H. E. Walter, of 

 Brown University; S. I. Kornhauser, of Deni- 

 son University, and H. M. Parshley, of Smith 

 College; in comparative anatomy by Professor 

 H. S. Pratt, of Haverford College; in prin- 

 ciples of genetics by Professor H. S. Fish, of 

 the University of Pittsburgh; in systematic 

 and field botany by Dr. O. E. Jennings, of 

 the University of Pittsburgh, and Mr. C. A. 



