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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXVIII. No. 728 



April 24 — " Athletic Sports at Varioua Ages 

 and their Probable Results upon the Body" (illus- 

 trated), Dr. J. Bapst Blake. 



April 25 — " Louis Pasteur," Dr. Harold C. 

 Ernst. 



TEE SARAB BERLINER RESEARCH 

 FELLOWSHIP FOR WOMEN 



The committee in charge of the Sarah 

 Berliner Eesearch Fellowship for Women will 

 offer, every two years, a fellowship to the value 

 of twelve hundred dollars, available for study 

 and research in physics, chemistry or biology 

 in either America or Europe. This fellow- 

 ship is open to women holding the degree of 

 doctor of philosophy, or to those similarly 

 equipped for the work of further research; it 

 will be awarded only to those who give 

 promise of distinction in the subject to which 

 they are devoting themselves. 



Applications for this fellowship must be in 

 the hands of the chairman of the committee by 

 March 1 of the year of each award (March 1, 

 1909, for the first award). They should state 

 as clearly as possible the candidate's claim to 

 the appointment, and they should contain, in 

 particular, (1) testimonials as to the value of 

 work already done, (2) copies of published 

 contributions, or other accounts of investiga- 

 tions already carried out, (3) evidence of thor- 

 oughly good health, (4) detailed plans for the 

 proposed use of the fellowship. The members 

 of the committee are Mrs. Christine Ladd 

 Franklin, Chairman, Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, Baltimore; Miss M. Carey Thomas, 

 President of Bryn Mawr College; Miss Laura 

 D. Gill, President of the Association of Col- 

 legiate Alumnse; President Kemsen, of the 

 Johns Hopkins University; and Professor 

 Howell, Dean of the Johns Hopkins Medical 

 School. The donor of this fund is Mr. Emile 

 Berliner, of Washington, well known as one 

 of the perfectors of the telephone and the in- 

 ventor of the gramophone. It is named in 

 honor of the donor's mother. 



THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF 



MEDICAL MUSEUMS 

 The second meeting of the International As- 

 sociation of Medical Museums was held in the 



National Museum, Washington, on October 

 18 and 22, in connection with the Interna- 

 tional Congress of Tuberculosis. This asso- 

 ciation, formed for the furtherance and pro- 

 motion of the efficiency of medical museums 

 as storehouses of material useful for teaching 

 and for research as well as for recording the 

 results of research, will also serve as a medium 

 for the interchange of specimens, and for 

 the discussion and publication of technical 

 methods useful in such work. To aid in 

 making this work more generally available, a 

 Bulletin is published in which the papers com- 

 municated will appear and through which ex- 

 changes may be effected. 



All persons engaged in or interested in the 

 work of medical museums are eligible for elec- 

 tion to membership in the association, and the 

 list of members is already large and includes 

 many prominent pathologists and medical men 

 from all countries of the world. 



At this meeting Dr. W. G. MacCaUum was 

 elected president to fill the place vacated by 

 the death of Major James Carroll, the first 

 president, and Dr. Maude E. Abbott, of Mc- 

 Gill University, was made secretary and treas- 

 urer. Beside the transaction of business and 

 the discussion of questions of organization and 

 policy, the following papers were presented : 



" On the Preservation of the Results of Research 

 as Material for Medical Museums," Dr. W. G. 

 MacCallum, Baltimore. 



" On the Classification of Museum Specimens," 

 Dr. M. E. Abbott, Montreal. 



" Demonstration des photographies en couleur 

 des pifecea et des coupes microscopiques," Professor 

 Arloing and Professor Courmont, of Lyons. 



" Preservation of Museum Specimens in their 

 Natural Color," Professor Souchon, New Orleans. 



" Demonstration of Methods of Mounting Speci- 

 mens in Gelatin," Dr. Watters, Boston. 



" Methods of Mounting Museum Specimens," 

 Mr. E. L. Judah (presented by Dr. Adami, Mon- 

 treal ) . 



"A Rapid Method of Macerating Bone," Mr. 

 Izzard, Cambridge, England. 



" Demonstration of a New Form of Museum 

 Jar," Dr. Warthin, Ann Arbor. 



" Demonstration of Anomalies of the Heart," 

 Dr. Abbott, Montreal. 



