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application to medical science; and the Prize 

 of Hungary, instituted to commemorate the 

 sixteenth Congress of 3,000 crowns, will he 

 given for a notable piece of work in medical 

 science which has appeared in the interval 

 since the last congress. Nominations of can- 

 didates for these prizes are invited before 

 June 1, 1913, and should be sent, together 

 with examples of the work on which the can- 

 didacy is based, to the Bureau de la Commis- 

 sion permanente des Congres intemationaux 

 de medicine, Hugo de Grootstraat 10, The 

 Hague. 



The Southern Society for Philosophy and 

 Psychology will hold its eighth annual meet- 

 ing at the Johns Hopkins University, Balti- 

 more, on April 8 and 9. 



The annual meeting of the American 

 Breeders' Association was held at Columbia, 

 South Carolina, in affiliation with the Na- 

 tional Corn Exposition, January 24^27, 1913. 

 As usual in recent meetings of this associa- 

 tion, the work of the eugenics section was 

 especially prominent. Dr. Charles B. Daven- 

 port's evening lecture to the citizens of Co- 

 lumbia on eugenics and the colored race was 

 received with interest. He gave a general view 

 of the difficulties brought about by the blend- 

 ing of the unit characters of two races so 

 radically different. A feature of the work of 

 the plant section was a visit to the state ex- 

 periment station booths at the National Corn 

 Exposition, which is really a national farm 

 crops exposition. A plant-breeding expert in 

 each of nearly a dozen states received the 

 association at his booth and with samples at 

 hand told of one or more varieties of corn, 

 wheat, sugar cane, or other crop which had 

 been materially improved by the state experi- 

 ment station and had come into wide com- 

 mercial use in the state. In each case the 

 method of breeding used in producing the new 

 variety, the percentage of increase it produced 

 over the varieties it is displacing and the 

 acreage covered throughout the state were 

 given. For example, a variety of sugar 

 cane in Louisiana was said to now occupy 

 half the sugar cane area of that state with a 

 yield of canes ten per cent, above the yields 

 of varieties it displaced and with a percentage 



of sugar in these canes ten per cent, above 

 the old averages. Nearly similar increases 

 were shown in varieties of wheat in Minne- 

 sota and Washington, varieties of corn in 

 Indiana, Illinois and other states and varie- 

 ties of cotton in South Carolina and other 

 southern states. 



VNIVEESITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 By the death in Wallingford, Conn., of 

 Joseph Lyman, Yale University will receive 

 $650,000. He held the life use of that sum 

 which was willed to the college by his brother, 

 Samuel Lyman, who died in 1910. 



Both houses of the legislature of the state 

 of Washington recently adopted the biennial 

 budget submitted by the joint appropriations 

 committees. The University of Washington 

 will receive $1,004,701. The matter of the re- 

 placement of the temporary university build- 

 ings by adequate modern structures has been 

 submitted to the legislature separately. 



The recently adjourned legislature of West 

 Virginia gave larger appropriations to the 

 state university than in any previous year. 

 Among others was a special appropriation for 

 the medical work to make it possible to follow 

 out the plans outlined by the committee from 

 the Association of American Medical Colleges. 



The Indiana legislature has made an ap- 

 propriation of $65,000 for the medical school 

 and hospital of the Indiana University School 

 of Medicine for the first year, and an annual 

 appropriation of $75,000 thereafter. 



Funds have been provided at Columbia Uni- 

 versity to build a laboratory for the study of 

 cancer under the George Crocker research 

 fund. This fund amounts to over one and one 

 half million dollars, and it was provided that 

 the income should be used solely for research 

 work. The laboratory, which will be 100 by 40 

 feet and three stories high, will be on the block 

 east of Amsterdam Avenue on 116th St. 



The clinical and laboratory building of the 

 Stanford University Medical Department in 

 San Francisco has recently been remodeled at 

 an expense of about $40,000. This large build- 

 ing was formerly used by Cooper Medical Col- 



