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Sing Sing, has received an endowment of 

 $10,000 from John D. Kockefeller. The clinic 

 was opened on August 3, and the advisory 

 board is composed of Drs. Terry M. Townsend, 

 George S. Burns and William Seaman Bain- 

 bridge. 



The Journal of the American Medical As- 

 sociation notes that an anonymous donor has 

 offered a prize of $10,000 to be handed over to 

 the maker of the mechanical apparatus best 

 supplying the place of the hand. All competi- 

 tors must belong to allied or neutral nations. 

 They are to demonstrate before the French 

 Surgical Association mutilated men who have 

 been using their apparatus for at least six 

 months. The surgical association will experi- 

 ment with each apparatus on mutilated men 

 for the length of time it thinks fit. The appa- 

 ratus rewarded is to remain the property of 

 its inventor. The competition will be closed 

 two years after the end of the war. Any per- 

 son wishing to compete should write M. le 

 Secretaire General de la Societe Rationale de 

 Chirurgie, 12, rue de Seine, Paris, France. 



The Mary Murdoch Memorial Loan Fund 

 has been raised to perpetuate the memory of 

 Dr. Mary Murdoch, of Hull, her high profes- 

 sional standard and the inspiration and en- 

 couragement she was to her colleagues and 

 friends. The committee which has been 

 formed to administer the fund is prepared to 

 grant loans of £100 or less, free of interest, so 

 as to give women doctors some financial help 

 at a time when they may specially need it. 

 Such special need might be during their 

 early years of establishment in practise, to 

 enable them to study some special subject or 

 purchase some particular apparatus, etc. This 

 fund will be open to all medical women, but 

 preference will be given to those who have 

 been trained at the London School of Medi- 

 cine for Women, which was Dr. Murdoch's 

 school. 



Presenting a report on the year's work at 

 Commemoration Day at King's College, the 

 principal, Dr. Burrows, said that regular men 

 students of English birth had fallen from over 

 800 in the year previous to the war to a little 



over 100. The college had contributed 512 

 officers to the army and navy. Fifty-seven stu- 

 dents had lost their lives. Twenty-one mem- 

 bers of the staff were on war or munition serv- 

 ice, three of whom held the rank of lieutenant- 

 colonel. On the science side every laboratory 

 in the college was being worked in the service 

 of the government. Professor Jackson, in the 

 chemistry department, had solved the formulae 

 for making all the delicate kinds of glass, in- 

 cluding miners' safety lamps, which had 

 hitherto been made in Germany and Austria. 

 Professor Bottomley was still engaged on his 

 researches on bacterized peat, which, it was 

 hoped, would effect a revolution in the treat- 

 ment of poor soil. The department of engi- 

 neering had devoted itself to the training of 

 unskilled labor for munition factories. 



The Hawaii National Park, just created by 

 Congress, is the first national park lying out- 

 side the continental boundaries of the United 

 States. It sets the three Hawaiian volcanoes, 

 Kilauea, Mauna Loa and Haleakala, and en- 

 trusts their protection and development to the 

 Department of the Interior. " The Hawaiian 

 volcanoes," writes T. A. Jaggar, director of 

 the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, " are truly 

 a national asset, wholly unique of their kind, 

 the most famous in the world of science and 

 the most continuously, variously and harm- 

 lessly active volcanoes on earth. Kilauea 

 crater has been nearly continuously active 

 with a lake or lakes of molten lava for a cen- 

 tury; Mauna Loa is the largest active volcano 

 and mountain mass in the world, with erup- 

 tions about once a decade, and has poured out 

 more lava during the last century than any 

 other volcano on the globe. Haleakala is a 

 mountain mass 10,000 feet high, with a tre- 

 mendous crater rift in its summit eight miles 

 in diameter and 3,000 feet deep, with many 

 high lava cones built up inside the crater. It 

 is probably the largest of all known craters 

 among volcanoes that are technically known 

 as active. Haleakala erupted less than 200 

 years ago. The crater at sunrise is the grand- 

 est volcanic spectacle on earth." 



Van H. Manning, director of the Bureau of 

 Mines of the Department of the Interior, will 



