DECEMBER 20, 1918] 
bequests to these institutions in equal shares 
consist of his residuary estate, estimated at 
about $10,000,000. He gave a trust fund of 
$10,000,000 to his only child, Alice Antoinette 
De Lamar, with the provision that if she dies 
without issue the principal of this fund also 
goes to the institutions named. The clause 
setting aside the residuary estate requests that 
the fund be used as follows: 
For the study and teaching of the origin of hu- 
man disease and the prevention thereof; for the 
study and teaching of dietetics and of the effect of 
different food and diets on the human system, and 
how to conserve health by proper food and diet and 
in connection with the foregoing purposes to estab- 
lish and maintain fellowships, instructorships, schol- 
arships and professorships; to construct, maintain 
and equip laboratories, elinies, dispensaries and 
other places for such study and research and to 
provide proper housing of same; to publish and dis- 
seminate the results of such study and research, not 
only in scientific journals and for physicians and 
scientists, but also, and this I especially enjoin on 
the legatees, by popular publications, public lec- 
tures and other appropriate methods to give to the 
people of the United States generally the knowl- 
edge concerning the prevention of sickness and dis- 
“ease, and also concerning the conservation of 
health by proper food and diet. 
The will suggests that the legatees use any 
means they deem expedient for the purposes 
named, and requests that the fund be kept 
intact. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 
Tue Royal Society has awarded its Darwin 
medal to Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn, 
president of the American Museum of Nat- 
ural History, in recognition of his research 
work in vertebrate morphology and paleon- 
tology. The Copley medal goes to Professor 
H. A. Lorentz, late professor of physics in the 
University of Leyden, For. Mem. R.S., for his 
researches in mathematical physics; the Davy 
medal to Professor F. S. Kipping, F.R.S., pro- 
fessor of chemistry, University College, Not- 
tingham, for his studies in the camphor group 
and among organic derivatives of nitrogen 
and silicon; a Royal medal to Professor F. G. 
Hopkins, F.R.S., professor of bio-chemistry in 
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the University of Cambridge, for his researches 
in chemical physiology. 
Sir J. J. Toomson was reelected president of 
the Royal Society at the anniversary meeting 
on November 30. The other officers are: 
Treasurer; Sir Alfred Kempe. Secretaries: 
Professor Arthur Schuster and Mr. W. B. 
Hardy. Foreign Secretary: Professor W. A. 
Herdman. Other Members of the Council: 
Sir George B. Beilby, Profesor V. H. Black- 
man, Mr. C. V. Boys, Sir James J. Dobbie, 
Sir Frank W. Dyson, Dr. M. O. Forster, Pro- 
fessor F. W. Gamble, Dr. J. W. L. Glaisher, 
Sir Richard Glazebrook, Sir Alfred D. Hall, 
Sir William Leishman, Professor W. J. Pope, 
Dr. W. H. R. Rivers, Professor E. H. Star- 
ling, Mr. J. Swinburne and Professor W. W. 
Watts. 
Tue Swedish Academy has awarded the 
Nobel prize for physics for the year 1917, to 
Professor OC. G. Barkla, professor of natural 
philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, 
for his work on X-rays and secondary rays. 
The prize in physies for 1918 and that in 
chemistry for 1917 and 1918 have been re- 
served. 
Dr. Prerre Roux, director of the Pasteur 
Institute of Paris for many years, will retire 
from that post. He will be succeeded by Dr. 
A. C. Calmette, director of the Pasteur In- 
stitute of Lille. 
Tue Salters’ Company has appointed Dr. 
M. O. Forster, F.R.S., to be the first director 
of the newly established Salters’ Institute 
of Industrial Chemistry. 
Dr. GeorceE Davin Stewart has been elected 
president of the New York Academy of 
Medicine. . 
Mr. F. K. Bezzenpercer, of Harvard Uni- 
versity, has been commissioned captain, and 
is stationed at Cleveland as gas chemist in the 
Chemical Warfare Service. 
Dr. Rospert P. Fiscueuis, director of the 
control department of the H. K. Mulford Co., 
has entered the Chemical Warfare Service 
and has been stationed at the control lab- 
