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SCIENCE 



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Star Catalogue, was another of the original 

 members. They were not called fellows until 

 1830, when the royal charter was granted, giv- 

 ing the society its present title; it was previ- 

 ously called the London Astronomical Society. 

 The earliest publications of the society were in 

 the form of memoirs; the Monthly !N"otices did 

 jKit commence until several years later, and 

 were at first only small pamphlets containing 

 ephemerides of comets and other matters of 

 transient interest. 



The British Medical Journal writes: 



Owing to the war the zoological station at 

 Naples has suffered in many ways, and it is highly 

 necessary that this very important international 

 Bcientiiic institution should receive the support nec- 

 essary to enable it to carry on its work without re- 

 stidetion. But, although its importance for zo- 

 ological and morphological research has always 

 been recognized, its advantages for physiological 

 and biochemical studies are by no means as widely 

 known as they ought to be. The station is fully 

 equipped with all necessary apparatus and mate- 

 rials, and the section for physiology and biochemist 

 try, being under the very capable direction of Pro- 

 fessor Bottazzi, the professor of physiology in the 

 University of Naples, students are assured not only 

 of the opportunities of carrying out independent 

 and untrammelled research, but of the best advice 

 and direction from the staff. There is an admir- 

 able library, with very complete sets of periodical 

 publications. The rent of a table is 2,500 francs a 

 year (payable in gold), and the director of the 

 station will furnish all details to students who pro- 

 pose to carry out any research there. The study 

 of comparative physiology has bearings upon im- 

 munology, upon the question of functional activi- 

 ties, upon biochemistry and physiology in general, 

 the importance of which in their relation to medi- 

 cine needs no emphasis. The effect on interna- 

 tional relations of a free use of these scientific fa- 

 cilities being made by British students and of their 

 intercourse with Italian men of science is but little 

 less important. 



The American Fisheries Society will hold 

 its fiftieth anniversary meeting at Ottawa, 

 Canada, on September 20, 21 and 22, 1920. 

 For this meeting the society will offer prizes 

 of $100 for papers in competition in each of 



the following classes. (1) For the contribu- 

 tion showing the greatest advance in prac- 

 tical fish cultm-al work; (2) For the best 

 contribution to biological work connected with 

 fish problems in general; (3) For that which 

 oifers the greatest promise of the solution of 

 problems affecting commercial fisheries work. 

 The papers should be in the hands of the 

 secretary not later than August 20. Further 

 information can be obtained from the ex- 

 ecutive secretary, Professor Eaymond C. Os- 

 burn, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



Yale University has received $1,000,000 

 from the General Education Board for the 

 development of the New Haven General Hos- 

 pital through the medical school of the uni- 

 versity. The hospital will be made a full- 

 time institution, the staff many of whom are 

 members of the Tale Medical School faculty, 

 giving all their time to the hospital and fore- 

 going outside practise. When the Yale Med- 

 ical School became affiliated with the New 

 Haven hospital a few years ago, a gift of 

 $500,000 from the General Education Board 

 was received. 



The General Education Board has made a 

 gift of $500,000 each to the endowment funds 

 of Smith College and Mount Holyoke College 

 and $400,000 to that of "Wesleyan University. 

 It has also made an appropriation of $250,000 

 to Middlebury College on condition that an 

 additional $750,000 be raised by subscription. 



Mr. Edward Whitley has offered to Oxford 

 University the sum of £10,000 towards the 

 endowment of a professorship of biochemistry, 

 and the British Dye-Stuffs Corporation has 

 made a donation of £5,000 towards the cost 

 of extending the laboratory of organic chem- 

 istry. 



The Convocation of Oxford University has 

 passed without opposition the statute provid- 

 ing for the matriculation and admission of 



