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Convening at % p.m., the Sections on Sur- 

 gery, General and Abdominal ; Ophthalmology ; 

 Diseases of Children; Pharmacology and 

 Therapeutics; Dermatology and Syphilology; 

 Orthopedic Surgery; Gastro-Enterology and 

 Proctology ; Miscellaneous. 



Among the foreign guests will be: Dr. W. 

 Blair Bell, Liverpool; Dr. H. E. G. Boyle, 

 London; Dr. Jacques Calve, Plage, France; 

 Sir George Lenthal Cheattle, London; Dr. 

 Walter W. Chipman, Montreal; Dr. Pierre 

 Janet, Paris; Sir Robert Jones, Liverpool; 

 Professor V. Putti, Bologna, Italy; Dr. Rich- 

 ard G. Rows and Lieutenant-Colonel Henry 

 Smith, London; Professor Soubbotitch, Bel- 

 grade, Serbia ; and Drs. M. Turin and A. Wid- 

 mer, Territet, Switzerland. 



MME. CURIE'S VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES 



The events in honor of Mme. Curie arranged 

 for last week were carried out in accordance 

 with the program. On Tuesday, May 17, she 

 was given a luncheon in Ifew York by the 

 American Chemical Society, the American 

 Electrochemical Society, the Chemists Club 

 and American sections of the Societe de 

 Chimie industrielle and the Society of Chem- 

 ical Industry. Dr. Edgar F. Smith presided 

 and addresses of welcome were made by Dr. 

 Robert B. Moore, chief chemist of the Bu- 

 reau of Mines; Dr. Prancis Carter Wood, head 

 of the Crocker Cancer Research Laboratory 

 of Columbia University ; and Professor George 

 B. Pegram, dean of the Columbia University 

 School of Mines. 



In the evening a reception in honor of Mme. 

 Curie was given at the American Museum of 

 iNTatural History by the New York Academy 

 of Sciences and the New York Mineralogical 

 Club, at which Dr. Michael I. Pupin, profes- 

 sor of electro-mechanics at Columbia Uni- 

 versity ; Dr. Robert Abbe, Dr. George F. Kunz 

 and Professor Alexander H. Phillips, of 

 Princeton University, made addresses. Mme. 

 Curie's election as an honorary fellow of the 

 American Museum of Natural History was 

 announced by Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn. 



On Wednesday afternoon the American As- 

 sociation of University Women, presided over 



by Mrs. Edgerton Parsons, welcomed Madame 

 Curie in Carnegie Hall. Dean Ada Corn- 

 stock, of Smith College, president of the as- 

 sociation, extended a welcome on behalf of the 

 college and university women of the United 

 States. Addresses were made by Dr. Florence 

 Sabin, professor of histology at the Johns 

 Hopkins University, and Dr. Alice Hamilton, 

 of the Harvard Medical School. President 

 Pendleton, of Wellesley College, announced 

 the award to Mme. Curie of the special Ellen 

 Richards Research Prize of $2,000. 



On Thursday evening, at a dinner given in 

 her honor by the National Institute of Social 

 Science, the gold medal of the society was 

 presented by Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, who 

 read the presentation address of Vice-presi- 

 dent Coolidge, who was absent on account of 

 illness. 



The gram of radium valued at $120,000, a 

 gift from the women of America, was presented 

 to Mme. Curie by President Harding on May 

 20. M. Jusserand, the French Ambassador, 

 made a brief introduction. After the pres- 

 entation Mme. Curie responded as follows: 



I can. not express to you the emotion wMeh 

 fills my heart in this moment. You, the chief of 

 this great Eepulblie of the United States, honor 

 me as no woman has ever been honored in America 

 before. The destiny of a nation whose women can 

 do what your countrywomen do to-day through 

 you, Mr. President, is sure and safe. It gives me 

 confidence in the destiny of democracy. 



I accept this rare gift, Mr. President, with the 

 hope that I may make it serve mankind. I thank 

 your countrywomen in the name of France. I 

 thank them in the name of humanity which we 

 all wish so much to make happier. I love you all, 

 my American friends, very much. 



In the evening at a meeting held under the 

 auspices of the U. S. National Museum, pre- 

 sided over by Dr. Charles D. Walcott, of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, Miss Julia Lathrop 

 extended to Mme. Curie greetings on behalf 

 of the scientific men and women of Washing- 

 ton and Dr. Robert A. Millikan, of the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, gave an address on radium, 

 describing the researches that led to its isola- 

 tion by Mme. Curie. On the following day 



