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based on tte collections made by the Amer- 

 ican Museum Belgian Congo Expedition in 

 cooperation with the Belgian government. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that the Societe de iNeurologie de 

 Paris has recently decided to inaugurate an in- 

 ternational exchange of views on neurologic 

 questions by inviting neurologists and psychia- 

 trists from other countries to attend a special 

 meeting to be held annually at Paris in July. 

 It is planned to have two days of work with 

 two sessions each day, and some subject is to 

 be appointed for discussion. The first meeting 

 it is announced will be organized in July, 1921, 

 and the subject appointed for discussion at that 

 time is the clinical forms and the treatment of 

 S3rphilis of the nervous system. Professor J. A. 

 Sicard has been appointed to open the discus- 

 sion. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that a notable gathering 

 of members of the medical profession and 

 other friends of the late Sir William Osier 

 attended services in his honor on January 1, 

 in Old St. Paul's Church, Baltimore. The 

 time was set on receipt by Dr. Henry Barton 

 Jacobs, of a cablegram from Lady Osier, 

 stating that the funeral services in England 

 would be held at that hour. The ceremony at 

 St. Paul's was most impressive. The trustees, 

 faculty and student body of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University were represented, as well as 

 the nurses of the training school and officials 

 of Jolins Hopkins Hospital. The medical 

 and chirurgical faculty of Maryland and the 

 Baltimore City Medical Society were repre- 

 sented by leading members of the medical pro- 

 fession. A memorial meeting of the staff of 

 Mayo Clinic, Eochester, was held on Decem- 

 ber 31. 



Valuable data and records, covering two 

 years' research in the cause and effect of in- 

 fluenza, made by Dr. Thomas M. Rivers, and 

 the laboratories of Dr. Bayne Jones and Dr. 

 Lloyd D. Felton, containing apparatus and 

 data of value, were destroyed in the fire which 

 recently broke out on the top floor of the 

 pathologic building in the Johns Hopkins 

 group. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The General Education Board, founded by 

 Mr. John D. Rockefeller, announces an ap- 

 propriation of $1,000,000 as a contribution 

 toward a building fund of $3,000,000 for the 

 construction and endowment of a new library 

 and class room building for Teachers College, 

 Columbia University. 



An emergency grant has been made to the 

 University of Cambridge, by the government, 

 of £30,000, payable in two installments, the 

 first of which has been received. The council 

 of the senate has assigned £5,000 to the uni- 

 versity library, £4,100 to increase the stipends 

 of various professorships, £1,400 to increase 

 the stipends of eight readers, and £2,575 for 

 various university lecturers. 



Me. S. B. Joel and his brother, Mr. J. B. 

 Joel, have promised the sum of £20,000 for 

 the endowment of a chair of physics in the 

 Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London. 



Aptee thirty years of service in the depart- 

 ment of chemistry at the University of Iowa, 

 during the last fifteen of which he has been 

 head of the department, Professor E. W. 

 Rockwood has resigned his administrative 

 duties. He will continue his teaching and 

 research. 



Assistant Peofessoe C. N. Mills, of South 

 Dakota State College, has been appointed 

 professor of mathematics at Heidelberg Uni- 

 versity, Tiffin, Ohio. 



De. Eogeb C. Smith, of the Virginia 

 Station, has succeeded Dr. M. C. Tanquary 

 in the Kansas State Agricultural College, 

 entomological department. Dr. Tanquary re- 

 signed to accept the post of Texas state 

 entomologist. 



HowAED M. Tuenee, a consulting engineer 

 of Boston, who recently has been connected 

 with the Turners Falls Construction Com- 

 pany, has been appointed lecturer on water- 

 power engineering at the Harvard Engineer- 

 ing School. 



It is stated in Nature that Dr. Samuel 

 Smiles has been appointed to the Daniell 



