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orders often becoine incapacitated and remain 

 so for want of the particular treatment they 

 require. For such treatment scarcely any fa- 

 cilities exist at the present moment. To say 

 that a condition is merely due to " nerves " 

 has been almost equivalent to saying that it 

 calls for nothing beyond rest and change. 

 These disorders are, however, amenable to 

 medical treatment under favorable conditions, 

 and it is to provide such means of cure and 

 further to expand and elaborate them that the 

 present institution has been founded. 



The hospital is primarily intended for those 

 members of the educated classes who are un- 

 able to meet the heavy expenses associated 

 with care and treatment in a nursing home. 

 The upkeep of the institution and the treat- 

 ment of the patients have been largely pro- 

 vided for by the generosity of the founder, 

 but a charge will be made to each patient as 

 a contribution to his or her maintenance. 



The members of the general committee, 

 under the chairmanship of Sir Ernest Cassel, 

 are Sir Robert Hudson, Sir Courtauld Thom- 

 son, Sir Felix Cassel (the trustees of the 

 fund), and Mib. Joshua, together with the 

 members of the medical committee. Miss 

 Aldrich-Blake, M.S., Dr. Farquhar Buzzard, 

 Sir Maurice Craig, Lord Dawson, Professor 

 J. S. Haldane, Dr. Henry Head, Dr. A. F. 

 Hurst, and Sir Frederick Treves. Dr. T. A. 

 Eoss, who has had a wide experience of dis- 

 eases of the nervous system, has been ap- 

 pointed medical director. 



THE GIFT TO MME. CURIE 



The deed of gift, which accompanied the 

 gram of radium presented to Mme. Curie by 

 President Harding on May 27 reads: 



This agreement, made this 19th of May, 1921, 

 ibetween the Committee of Women of the Marie 

 Curie Fund, of 3 Macdougal Street, New York 

 City, and Mme. Curie, of Paris, France, wit- 

 nesseth : 



Whereas a gram of radium has been secured 

 through the efforts of the above mentioned com- 

 mittee and by the voluntary subscriptions of the 

 women of the "United States for the purpose of 

 presentation to Mme. Marie Curie for free and 



ujitrammeled use by her in experimentation and in 

 pursuit of science. 



Now, therefore, in consideration of the object 

 above set forth and in order that the fullest sci- 

 entific use may be made of such material, the 

 said executive committee of the Mme. Curie Fund, 

 as representing the subscribers thereto, does hereby 

 give, grant and transfer to Mme. Marie Curie the 

 said gram of radium, to be used and applied toy 

 her freely and in her discretion in experimentation 

 and in the best interests of science by herself per- 

 sonally, or under her direction or through such 

 agencies, assistants ajid successors as she may 

 nominate, and in the confident expectation that 

 Mme. Curie will take measures as wiU insure the 

 continued use of the said material for the pur- 

 poses stated, in case of her withdrawal from activi- 

 ties or other disability through such persons as she 

 may adjudge best qualified for the purpose. 



RUINS IN THE UPPER CANADIAN VALLEY 



In March and April, Messrs. W. K. Moore- 

 head and J. B. Thoburn travelled through the 

 Upper Canadian valley and the Panhandle of 

 Texas and eastern 'New Mexico, continuing 

 the explorations begun last spring in that 

 region. They discovered that the small build- 

 ings and house foundations which are sup- 

 posed to have marked the beginning of the 

 Pueblo-Clifi Dweller culture extended through 

 New Mexico to the foot of the continental 

 divide. In the Mora valley they found seven 

 or eight small ruins and one L-shaped struc- 

 ture 200 X 150 feet which were distinctively 

 Pueblo. On the surface, and by means of ex- 

 cavation, broken pottery of black and white 

 design was found. This was archaic Pueblo — 

 the earliest type. In Ute and La Cinta can- 

 yons were found rock shelters and caverns 

 which had been inhabited by Indians. Many 

 more petroglyphs were also discovered. 



The results of this expedition are said to 

 confirm the observations made last year to the 

 effect that a new field in American archeology 

 has been opened and that Indian remains ex- 

 tend through a territory approximately 250 x 

 150 miles. 



GEOLOGICAL EXPEDITION TO CHINA 



A PARTY of six geologists and mining engi- 

 neers from Minnesota and Wisconsin, includ- 



