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has used, will be taken over by the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago and will be reorganized to 

 provide adequate clinical and laboratory facil- 

 ities. A new laboratory building will be 

 erected in immediate conjunction with the 

 hospital. The buildings and grounds of the 

 Presbyterian Hospital are valued at about 

 $3,000,000. 



A statement given out by Dr. Abraham 

 Flexner says: 



This project will be giving the city of Chicago 

 a high-grade medical sehool and it will also pro- 

 vide for the first time in this country a post-grad- 

 uate school adequately equipped and financed. 



The school will be ereeted on the Midway Plai- 

 sance, and will thus form a part of the present 

 University of Chicago plant. High-grade modern, 

 laboratory buildings will be provided for instruc- 

 tion in the students' first and second years, and a 

 university hospital under complete control of the 

 university, with laboratories and an out patient de- 

 partment, will be built on the Midway. 



The entire teaching staff, clinical as well as 

 laboratory, will be organized on the full time basis. 

 That is, all the teachers for clinical as well as lab- 

 oratory studies will give their entire time to teach- 

 ing and research in the university hospital and 

 medical school. Professors and their assistants 

 will hold their posts on condition that they become 

 salaried university officials and that they accept 

 personally no fees whatever for any medical or 

 surgical services. 



The only medical schools in the country to-day 

 which have embraced the full time teaching plan 

 are Johns Hopkins Medical School and the med- 

 ical department of Washington University, St. 

 Louis. 



The full-time scheme is a plan to insure to hos- 

 pital work and medical teaching the undivided 

 energy of eminent scientists whose efforts might 

 otherwise be distracted by the conflicting demands 

 of private practise and elinieal teaching. The full 

 time scheme is an appeal to scientific interests and 

 devotion of the clinician, and the results so far 

 realized through the plan at Johns Hopkins have 

 been most satisfactory. 



It should be of increasing consequence to the 

 public that the training of those studying to be- 

 come doctors should be in charge of the most com- 

 petent men obtainable devoting their entire time 

 to this work. Greatly increased efficiency and 

 thoroughness should result, to the alleviation of 

 suffering and the cure of disease. 



The new institution thus to be established in 

 Chicago will be equipped with every modern fa- 

 cility for medical instruction and with ample funds 

 for operation. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The American Academy of Arts and Sci- 

 ences on November 15 presented the Rumford 

 medals to Mr. Charles Greeley Abbot, of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, for his researches on 

 solar radiation. 



Dr. George F. Kay, head of the department 

 of geology of the University of Iowa and state 

 geologist of Iowa, has been elected university 

 research lecturer for the current year. Dur- 

 ing each year the university lecturer visits the- 

 educational institutions of Iowa and delivers ai 

 lecture in which is involved the spirit of re- 

 search. This policy has been followed success- 

 fully for about ten years. 



Dr. Joseph J". Kjnyoun, bacteriologist of the 

 health department of the District of Columbia, 

 who, at the request of the authorities of Wins- 

 ton-Salem, N. C, has been for several months 

 engaged in the reorganization of the health de- 

 partment of that city, has resumed his duties 

 in Washington. 



Major-General Goethals, governor of the 

 Panama Canal Zone, will pass into the retired 

 list of the army on his own application dating 

 from November 15, after forty years' service. 

 The order of retirement affects only General 

 Goethals's military status and does not operate 

 to relieve him from duty as governor of the 

 Canal Zone, but is preliminary to his retire- 

 ment. 



The Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Natu- 

 rales, Buenos Aires, has elected as correspond- 

 ing members Sir Ernest Shackleton and Mr. 

 W. H. Hudson, the author of "Argentine 

 Ornithology " and other works. 



On the occasion of his seventieth birthday 

 on December 7, 1915, Professor A. Voss, of the 

 University of Munich, received from the 

 Munich technical high school the honorary de- 

 gree of doctor of technical sciences. 



At the annual meeting of the British Astro- 

 nomical Association on October 25, it was 



