May 10, 1912] 
morning a commemorative service in West- 
minster Abbey; in the afternoon the official 
reception of delegates at the Royal Society 
and presentation of addresses; in the evening 
a commemorative dinner at the Guildhall. 
Wednesday, July 17—In the morning visits 
to places of interest in London; in the after- 
noon the Duke of Northumberland gives a 
garden-party at Sion House; in the evening 
a conversazione in the rooms of the Royal 
Society. Thursday, July 18—In the morning 
visits to places of interest in London; in the 
afternoon H.M. the King gives a garden-party 
at Windsor, to which the delegates and fellows 
of the society will be invited. Friday, July 
19—The delegates will visit Oxford and Cam- 
bridge Universities. 
THE coming of age of the Babcock butter- 
fat test, which was invented by Professor 8. 
M. Babcock, of the University of Wisconsin, 
twenty-one years ago, has been recognized by 
the university in a new bulletin written by 
Dean H. L. Russell, of the College of Agricul- 
ture, in which he gives the history and growth 
of the use of the test throughout the world. 
Pictures of the original testing machine, now 
in the dairy school of the university, and of 
the latest improved forms of testers are shown 
in the bulletin. 
THE prize of the foundation George Monte- 
fiore will be awarded 1914 for the scientific 
advancement or application of electricity. 
The works may be printed or in manuscript 
and must be in French or English. The value 
of the prize is $4,000 and the works must be 
received not later than March 31, 1914. 
THE Warren Triennial Prize, founded by 
the late Dr. J. Mason Warren, of Boston, in 
memory of his father, will be awarded in 1913 
for the best dissertation on some subject in 
physiology, surgery or pathological anatomy, 
the arbitrators being the physicians and sur- 
geons of the Massachusetts General Hospital. 
The amount of the prize is $500. 
THE surgeon general of the army announces 
that preliminary examination for the appoint- 
ment of first Heutenants in the army medical 
corps will be held on July 15, 1912, and Sep- 
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tember 3, 1912, at points to be hereafter desig- 
nated. Full information concerning these 
examinations can be procured upon applica- 
tion to the “Surgeon General, U. S: Army, 
Washington, D. C.” The essential require- 
ments to securing an invitation are that the 
applicant shall be a citizen of the United 
States, shall be between twenty-two and thirty 
years of age, a graduate of a medical school 
legally authorized to confer the degree of doc- 
tor of medicine, shall be of good moral char- 
acter and habits, and shall have had at least 
one year’s hospital training, after graduation. 
The examinations will be held concurrently 
throughout the country at points where boards 
ean be convened. Due consideration will be 
given to localities from which applications are 
received, in order to lessen the traveling ex- 
penses of applicants as much as possible. The 
examination in subjects of general education 
(mathematics, geography, history, general lit- 
erature and Latin) may be omitted in the case 
of applicants holding diplomas from reputable 
literary or scientific colleges, normal schools 
or high schools, or graduates of medical 
schools which require an entrance examina- 
tion satisfactory to the faculty of the Army 
Medical School. In order to perfect all neces- 
sary arrangements for the examination, appli- 
cations must be complete and in possession of 
the adjutant general at least three weeks be- 
fore the date of examination. Early attention 
is therefore enjoined upon all intending ap- 
plicants. There are at present sixty-eight 
vacancies in the medical corps of the army. 
THE trustees of Phillips Academy, Andover, 
Mass., have authorized the department of 
archeology to begin an archeological survey 
of Maine this year. Already the curator, Mr. 
W. K. Moorehead, has had an agent of the 
department in Maine for some weeks. A 
number of camp sites, cemeteries and other 
places have been entered on the standard goy- 
ernment maps. It is proposed to map the 
entire state. The indications are that the 
ancient Indian population was most numerous 
along the coast, about Sebago Lake, on the 
lower Penobscot, Moosehead Lake and Cham- 
