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3. Sven Johan Ernandero, a Swedish explorer, 

 to make a botanical study of western Siberia, 



It should also be remarked that the matter of 

 perfecting the northern route from Vladivostok 

 to European ports via Behring Straits (so suc- 

 cessfully navigated last year from Europe as far 

 as the Yenisei Elver by the English navigator, 

 Captain Webster, and from Vladivostok to Kolima 

 Elver by a Eussian vessel), and the charting of 

 the new uncharted coast lines in many places on 

 this route, is receiving attention from a special 

 Eussian expedition which sailed from Vladivostok 

 at the opening of navigation this year. They will 

 winter in the Arctic Sea and proceed next year 

 on their voyage. 



A. Hrdlicka 



THE BEOBGANIZATION OF THE MEDICAL 

 DEPARTMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY 



OF CALIFORNIA 

 At a meeting of the regents of tile Univer- 

 sity of California in December, 1911, the Com- 

 mittee on Medical Instruction recommended 

 that the departments of the Medical School in 

 Berkeley and San Francisco be brought to- 

 gether in San Francisco as soon as possible, 

 that the clinical years be put upon an academic 

 basis, and that a proper teaching hospital and 

 proper laboratories be provided in order to pro- 

 mote the best interests of the university as a 

 ■whole, and of the Medical School in particular. 

 It was declared the desire of the board to es- 

 tablish a medical school of the highest stand- 

 ard. 



At a meeting in April, 1912, upon the recom- 

 mendation of the Medical Faculty, the follow- 

 ing plan of reorganization was adopted. Clin- 

 ical instruction in the medical school is to be 

 carried on in three main departments. (1) 

 Gynecology and obstetrics : it was decided to 

 put this department upon an academic basis at 

 once and to allot full academic salaries for a 

 professor and an assistant. (2) Medicine: 

 this department to include pediatrics, neurol- 

 ogy and dermatology. This department can 

 not as yet be placed upon a full academic 

 basis, but $2,300 has been devoted to the pay- 

 ment of assistants for the current year. (3) 

 Surgery : this department to include orthoped- 

 ics, urology, ophthalmology, rhinology, otology 



and laryngology. As with medicine, there were 

 not sufficient funds available this year to put 

 the department upon a full academic basis, but 

 $1,800 was devoted toward paying three assist- 

 ants. 



In addition to the main departments, the 

 work of the hospital pathologist was reorgan- 

 ized and an additional assistant professor of 

 pathology was secured at a salary of $2,400 a 

 year. It was voted to grant $1,200 for the 

 work in radiography. 



The budget voted to medicine 1912-13, for 

 maintenance of the first two years, was : 



Salaries Budgets Total 



Anatomy $11,500 $3,555 $15,055 



Physiology and physio- 

 logical chemistry . . 8,120 3,000 11,120 

 Pathology and bacteriol- 

 ogy 9,900 3,800 13,700 



Toward academic instruction in the clin- 

 ical years 12,000 



For additional expenses of the clinical 

 years : 



General budget 7,630 



Special budget for university hospital 6,480 

 Assistant superintendent and hospital 



stenographer 2,400 



Deficit 12,000 



Total for medical instruction 80,385 



In accordance with the plans adopted by the 

 regents, a movement is on foot to provide a 

 new university hospital. The present plana 

 aim at four units of forty to fifty beds each, to 

 be devoted respectively to surgery, medicine, 

 diseases of women and diseases of children. 

 Money has already been given ($350,000) by 

 private individuals to build and equip the de- 

 partments of medicine and children's diseases. 

 In order to carry on the work in the present 

 buildings, the regents have granted $14,000 

 for alterations in the hospital for accommoda- 

 tion of clinics, and $6,000 for equipment of 

 clinical and pathological laboratories. A chil- 

 dren's ward has been added to the hospital. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The following have been elected correspond- 

 ing members of the Munich Academy of Sci- 

 ences : Dr. Otto Struve, professor of astron- 



