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cial interest, the first working aneroid made 

 by Vidi in 185Y, and a series of models illus- 

 trating the development of the chick. 



Baron Edmond de Rothschild, adminis- 

 trator of the Eastern Railway Company of 

 France, has given 10,000,000 francs to found a 

 scientific institute to encourage students to 

 devote their lives to the work of research. The 

 institute will aim to develop science in in- 

 dustry and agriculture. The institute is to be 

 managed by a council, members of which are 

 to be elected by the Academy of Sciences, the 

 College of France, the Faculty of Sciences 

 and the Paris Museum. 



The Journal of the American Medical As- 

 sociation reports that a new pathological and 

 bacteriological institute has been opened in 

 Prague. There are divisions for pathologic 

 anatomy, experimental pathology, bacteriology 

 and legal medicine. It is popularly called 

 Hlava's Institute, from the name of its chief. 

 Professor Jeroslav Hlava. Dr. Hlava is the 

 senior professor of the staff of the Czech med- 

 ical school, and is a well known authority on 

 exanthematic fevers. In addition to being 

 president of several medical societies and a 

 corresponding member of the French Academy 

 of Medicine, he is also the president of the 

 Czech Society for Cancer Research. On the 

 day the new building for pathology was 

 opened, the president of the republic made a 

 gift of 100,000 crowns to the Cancer Society 

 for continuing and developing its work. 



The importance of regular meteorological 

 reports from Greenland for the forecasting ser- 

 vices of Western Europe, and, indeed, for that 

 of Canada also, has, says Nature, been recog- 

 nized for some years. The question of these 

 reports was discussed at the meeting of the 

 International Commission for Weather Teleg- 

 raphy which was held in London in November 

 last, and the commission decided unanimously 

 that " the establishment at the earliest possible 

 date of a high-power radio-telegraphic station 

 in Greenland is of the utmost importance to 

 the meteorology of Western Europe, and, fur- 

 ther, it is of such importance as to warrant 

 the international provision of funds for main- 



taining it." It is probable that the provision 

 of such a station by the Danish government 

 will be made at an early date. When this 

 station has been provided it will be possible to 

 make a definite use in weather forecasting in 

 Europe of meteorological observations from 

 Canada and the United States. Hitherto the 

 gap between the European and American ob- 

 servations has been so great that meteorologists 

 have been unable to justify the expense which 

 would be involved in regular cable messages 

 from America to England. 



The medical division of Stanford University 

 Medical School has received a grant of $300 

 from the Committee on Scientific Research of 

 the American Medical Association. This 

 money is to be used for the furtherance of an 

 investigation into the factors influencing the 

 rate of urea excretion. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 



Bequests amounting to $16,624,203 are as- 

 sured to the medical schools of Harvard, Co- 

 lumbia and Johns Hopkins Universities by the 

 action of Miss Alice A. De Lamar in the 

 Surrogate's Court in waiving her rights to pro- 

 test the will of her father. Captain Joseph R. 

 De Lamar. The will left more than half of his 

 estate, valued at $33,327,000, to education and 

 charity. The descendant's estate law of New 

 York bars a person from leaving more than 

 half of his estate to charity, without appproval 

 of the heirs. 



Dr. G. Canby Robinson, Baltimore, has ac- 

 cepted the post of professor of medicine at the 

 Johns Hopkins Medical School and physician- 

 in-chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, to 

 succeed Dr. William S. Thayer. Dr. Robin- 

 son is now professor of medicine and dean of 

 the medical faculty of Vanderbilt University, 

 Nashville, Term., and expects to return at the 

 end of the year. 



Dk. Paul J. Hanzlik, associate profes- 

 sor of pharmacology, school of medicine. 

 Western Reserve University, has been ap- 

 pointed professor of pharmacology in the 



