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search workers, especially those from Latin 

 America, and will invite foreign professors to 

 lecture on their specialties. The new inaltitu- 

 tion wiU include the laboratories already in- 

 stalled in 1901 for biologic research and the 

 laiboratories maintained for . research on ex- 

 perimental physiology, neuropathology and his- 

 tology. A new building is planned and the 

 whole will form a part of the National Insti- 

 tute of Sciences. 



In order to stimulate more general research 

 along the lines of better preparation and 

 packing of foods and beverages, and to in- 

 crease our knowledge of such changes in- 

 duced by preparation or storage of such prod- 

 ucts, the Glass Container Association of 

 America, Dr. A. W. Bitting, director of re- 

 search, 3344 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, HI., 

 wiU make seven awards in value from $50 to 

 $1.50 for theses submitted prior to June 10, 

 1921. A thesis may cover any phase of the 

 subject of foods or beverages — technological, 

 bacteriological, or chemical. It may treat of 

 any legitimate method of preparation, as 

 sterilization by heat, pasteurization, salting, 

 drying, smoking, pickling, sugaring, etc., the 

 product to be packed in glass. The thesis 

 may be bibliographical with abstracts, or may 

 be a translation from work along the lines 

 indicated. Any student working for a degree 

 in any college or university is eligible to com- 

 pete. 



The proceedings of the Paris Congress of 

 Physiology under the presidency of Professor 

 Charles Eichet, will begin on Friday, July 16, 

 and will end on the following Tuesday. The 

 last congress was held at Groningen in Sep- 

 tember, 1913, and it was then decided that the 

 next should be held in Paris. The subscrip- 

 tion (35 francs) should be sent to M. Lucien 

 Bull, I'Institut Marey, Avenue Victor-Hugo, 

 Boulogne-sur-Seine (Seine). 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



In recognition of the great and increasing 

 need for competent specialists in the medical 



sciences, a new course leading to the degree 

 of doctor of medical sciences (D.M.S.) has 

 been established at the Harvard Medical 

 Sdhool. The first two years' work of this 

 course is substantially identical with that of 

 the regular medical students and this general 

 training in the medical sciences ds followed 

 by a minimum of two years of concentration 

 work in one of the lalboratory departments. 

 The qualifications and character of work re- 

 quired of those admitted to the concentration 

 course are essentially the same as for Ph.D. 

 students. The gramting of the D.M.S. degree 

 gWiU be based on the same standard. 



It has been planned for some time to found 

 a university at Cologne. The Journal of the 

 American Medical Association reports that 

 the necessary formalities were complied with 

 last year, and the new university has recently 

 come into being very quietly. The various col- 

 leges and institutes have thus been collected 

 into a state university which offers a chance 

 to relieve the overcrowding of the university 

 at Bonn. The new university starts with 

 2,000 students and over forty instructors. 



Professor Cecil H. Peabody, head of the 

 department of naval architecture, the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, has resigned 

 after thirty-seven years. Dr. Peaibody has 

 been in charge of the miarine engineering 

 course since its formation in 1883. Professor 

 J. E. Jack will succeed Professor Peabody. 



Dr. Willum E. Ford, of Tale University, 

 has been promoted to a professorship of min- 

 eralogy and has been made a member of the 

 governing board of the Sheffield Scientific 

 School. 



Dr. H. E. Wells, formerly professor of 

 dhemistry at Washington and Jefferson Col- 

 lege and icaptain in the Chemical Warfare 

 Service, U. S. A., has been appointed professor 

 of chemistry at Smith College. 



Dr. J. P. MussELMAN, of Washington Uni- 

 versity, St. Louis, has been appointed associ- 

 ate in anathematics at the Johns Hopkins 

 University. Dr. Mussebnan is the national 

 president of the Gamma Alpha Graduate Sci- 

 entific Fraternity. 



