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SCIENCE 



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The address of presentation was delivered by 

 Professor Gr. G. Henderson, of the Regius 

 chair of chemistry, and the custody of the 

 memorial was accepted on behalf of the Uni- 

 versity Court by the vice-chancellor. The 

 medallion is the work of Mr. Paulin, and is an 

 excellent likeness; the design of the memorial 

 is due to Sir John J. Burnet. The mural 

 tablet is placed at the head of the great stair- 

 case leading to the Bute Hall and the Hun- 

 terian Museum. It is set in an arched recess 

 lined with grey marble, and bears reliefs illus- 

 trating Sir William Eamsay's numerous dec- 

 orations and honors. 



The trustees of the American Medical As- 

 sociation have made an appropriation of 

 money to further meritorious research in sub- 

 jects relating to scientific medicine and of 

 practical interest to the medical profession, 

 which otherwise could not be carried on to 

 completion. Applications for grants should 

 be sent to the Committee on Scientific Ee- 

 search, American Medical Association, 535 

 North Dearborn Street Chicago, before Feb- 

 ruary 1, 1920, when action will be taken on 

 the applications at hand. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that on the initiative of 

 Professors Forssner, Forssell, Holmgren and 

 Dr. Key, of Stockholm, and Professors Quensel 

 and Petren, of Upsala, and Lund, a meeting 

 was held recently to organize the Svenska 

 Sallskapet for medicinsk forskning to promote 

 scientific research in Sweden. Already 169 

 members are enrolled and the officers elected. 

 They include a number of prominent laymen, 

 directors of banks, consuls and others besides 

 leading professors in the medical sciences. 

 Professor Quensel in the opening address em- 

 phasized that the rapidly changing world has 

 brought the necessity for new orientations and 

 the blocking out of new routes, and he cited the 

 saying, "If the human race can be perfected, 

 it is in the medical sciences that the means 

 for this must be sought." The aim of the new 

 society is to provide funds for medical research, 

 and the treasury starts with a donation of 

 5,000 crowns from a legacy. 



The next annual congress of the Royal In- 

 stitute of Public Health, which suspended 

 these meetings during the war, is to he held at 

 Brussels from May 20 to 24, inclusive, by invi- 

 tation of the Burgomaster, M. Adolphe Max. 

 Delegates will be invited from all the universi- 

 ties, municipalities and other public bodies in 

 due course. Meanwhile, all wishing to take 

 part should communicate with the Hon. Sec- 

 retaries, the Royal Institute of Public Health, 

 37 Russell-square, London, W.O. 1. 



The magnetic-survey vessel Carnegie left 

 Washington on October 9, on a two year 

 cruise of 64,000 nautical miles. She arrived 

 at her first port of call, Daker, Senegal, West 

 Coast of Africa, on November 23, but owing 

 to bubonic plague sailed a few days later and 

 is now en-route to Buenos Aires, Argentina, 

 arriving there about the end of January. Mr. 

 J. A. Fleming, Chief of the Magnetic Survey 

 Division of the Department of Terrestrial 

 Magnetism, has been designated to represent 

 the director of the department in the in- 

 spection of the work and vessel at Buenos 

 Aires, and he accordingly sailed from New 

 York on December 31. The scientific person- 

 nel of the present cruise consists of the follow- 

 ing: J. P. Ault, in command; H. F. Johnston, 

 magnetician, second in command; Russell 

 Pemberton, surgeon and observer; A. Thomas, 

 H. R. Grummann and R. R. Mills, observers. 



According to the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association during a recess in ses- 

 sions of the International Conference of 

 Women Physicians in New York, thirty-five 

 distinguished women physicians from foreign 

 countries visited the Johns Hopkins Hospital 

 recently and studied facilities at the institu- 

 tion. The general program for the day was 

 arranged by Dr. Florence R. Sabin, Balti- 

 more, who received the delegates. The first 

 inspection was of the gynecologic department, 

 where Drs. Howard A. Kelley, Guy Hunner 

 and Thomas S. Cullen acted as pilots. At 

 the Harriet Lane Home, an exhibition of 

 children's diseases was prepared. Dr. John J. 

 Abel, gave a short address on the general sub- 

 ject of physiology, followed by a talk on 

 dietetics by E.V. MeCollmn. Dr. George L. 



