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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXVII. No. 960 



Earl of Portsmouth, Sir Richard Martin, the 

 Hon. N. 0. Rothschild, Professor G. C. 

 Bourne, Dr. A. E. Shipley, Professor W. A. 

 Herdman. 



As has already been announced, the com- 

 mittee of the Lister Memorial Fund proposes 

 that the memorial should be of a threefold 

 character: (1) A simple marble medallion 

 bearing a sculptured portrait of Lord Lister 

 to be placed in Westminster Abbey among the 

 monuments of the nation's illustrious dead; 

 (2) a larger and more conspicuous monument 

 to be erected in some public place in London, 

 the city wherein he lived and worked; (3) if 

 funds sufficient shall be obtained, the found- 

 ing of an International Memorial Fund from 

 which either grants in aid of researches bear- 

 ing on surgery or rewards in recognition of 

 important contributions to surgical science 

 shall be made, irrespective of nationality. The 

 British Medical Journal says that the sum al- 

 ready subscribed or promised is perhaps suffi- 

 cient for the completion of the first two parts 

 of the proposed memorial, which are of local 

 character, but for the third, or international 

 part of the memorial, an international appeal 

 is now being made, and a letter has been ad- 

 dressed by the secretary. Sir John Rose Brad- 

 ford, to the principal universities and medical 

 societies on the Continent of Europe and in 

 the United States. A similar letter is being 

 sent to the corresponding institutions in the 

 British dominions and colonies. Among the 

 subscriptions received for the international 

 fund are the following: Academy of Sciences, 

 Paris, 500 francs; University of Paris, 500 

 francs; Medical Faculty of the University of 

 Montpellier, 250 francs; the Karolinska Med- 

 ico-Kirurgiska Institutet, Stockholm, £5. 

 Vladimir Kowalevsky, president of the Tech- 

 nological Society of Russia, has made a dona- 

 tion of £5 " in memory of one of the greatest 

 benefactors of the human race." The univer- 

 sities of Michigan, Yale, Harvard and Leland 

 Stanford (California) have already under- 

 taken to promote the memorial, and the Col- 

 lege of Physicians, of Philadelphia, has made 

 a special appeal to its fellows. In addition. Dr. 

 Keen, of Philadelphia, is making a somewhat 



wider appeal. The University of Toronto has 

 appointed a special committee to promote the 

 fund. The honorary treasurers of the fund 

 are Lord Rothschild and Sir W. Watson 

 Cheyne. The offices of the fund are at the 

 house of the Royal Society, Burlington House, 

 Piccadilly, London, W., and subscriptions, 

 made payable to the fund, may be sent to the 

 treasurers there. 



Congress has furnished the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology with funds to be used in the eradica- 

 tion of the tick which transmits spotted fever 

 in the Bitter Root Valley in Montana. Dr. 

 T. Ricketts demonstrated that the disease is 

 transmitted only by the tick Dermacentor 

 venustus. Investigations conducted by the 

 Bureau of Entomology in cooperation with 

 the Montana Agricultural College have shown 

 that a comparatively simple and inexpensive 

 plan of eradication of the tick may be put 

 into operation. Cooperation has been ar- 

 ranged with the Montana State Board of 

 Entomology, recently created at the session of 

 the Montana Legislature, whose duty it is to 

 " study the dissemination by insects of dis- 

 eases among persons and animals, said inves- 

 tigation having for its purpose the eradication 

 and prevention of such diseases." The board 

 is further required to take steps to eradicate 

 and prevent the spread of diseases that may 

 be transmitted by insects and an appropria- 

 tion of five thousand dollars a year for the 

 next biennium is made. The im m ediate ob- 

 ject in passing the law was to provide for the 

 eradication of the Rocky Mountain spotted 

 fever tick. The membership of the board is 

 ex officio and is made up of the secretary of 

 the State Board of Health, chairman; the 

 state entomologist, secretary; and the state 

 veterinarian. 



At the recent meeting of the National Asso- 

 ciation for the Study and Prevention of Tu- 

 berculosis in Washington the following resolu- 

 tions were adopted : " Whereas, Widespread 

 publicity has been given to the claims of an 

 alleged cure for tuberculosis. Besolved, That 

 there is no information before the National 

 Association for the Study and Prevention of 



