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League of Nations. The commission plans to 

 organize a world health institution separate 

 from the International Health Office of the 

 Eed Cross, to which the United States belongs. 



Dr. a. B. Stout, of the 'N. Y. Botanical 

 Garden, has spent two weeks at the State Ex- 

 perimental Station at Geneva, N. Y., in 

 making further study of flower types in grapes 

 and in the work of breeding for seedless sorts 

 of hardy grapes. This work is being done 

 m cooperation with the Department of 

 Horticulture of the Experimental Station. 



Dr. Gustav T. Troedsson, privat-docent at 

 the Geological Institute at Lund, Sweden, 

 is accompanying Professor Percy E. Raymond, 

 of Harvard University, on the third of the 

 Shaler Memorial Expeditions for the study 

 of the Ordovician in the southern Ap- 

 palachians. 



Dr. J. W. KniBALL, formerly research 

 chemist at Delta Laboratory, E. I. du Pont 

 de Nemours and Co., Arlington, N. J., has 

 joined the stafi of the National Aniline and 

 Chemical Co., as research chemist at their 

 works at Marcus Hook, Pa. 



We learn from Nature that a medal, to be 

 known as the Meldola medal, will be presented 

 annually by the Society of Maccabseans for 

 the most noteworthy chemical work of the year 

 carried out by a British subject who is not 

 more than thirty years of age on completing 

 the work. The award will be made by the 

 council of the Institute of Chemistry acting 

 with one member of the Society of Mac- 

 cabasans, and power to vary the conditions of 

 award is vested in the committee of the 

 society and the council of the institute acting 

 jointly. The object of instituting the medal 

 is to recognize merit among the younger 

 generation of chemists and to perpetuate the 

 memory of Professor Raphael Meldola, the 

 distinguished chemist who served as president 

 both of the society presenting the medal and 

 of the Institute of Chemistry. It is hoped 

 that the first presentation will be made at the 

 annual general meeting of the Institute of 

 Chemistry on March 1, 1922. 



At a meeting of the Royal College of Sur- 



geons of Edinburgh, held on July 18, the pres- 

 ident. Dr. George Mackay, presented to the 

 College a portrait of the late Lord Lister. 

 The picture is a full-sized copy made by Mr. 

 Dorfield Hardy of the portrait painted by W, 

 Ouless, R. A., in the possession of the Royal 

 College of Surgeons of England. In accept- 

 ing the portrait on behalf of the College, the 

 vice-president. Dr. McKenzie Johnston, ex- 

 pressed the satisfaction the college had in ac- 

 quiring this memorial of its most distin- 

 guished fellow through the generosity of 

 their president. 



The Priestley Memorial , Committee of the 

 American Chemical Society has reported that 

 the sum of two thousand dollars has been col- 

 lected and placed on interest. The committee 

 has authorized the chairman to select an artist 

 to copy the Stuart portrait of Priestley, which 

 is now at Northumberland, Pa., and imme- 

 diate steps will be taken to obtain a die for 

 the Priestley medal. 



Peter Cooper Hewitt, the electrical and 

 mechanical engineer of New York City, died 

 in Paris on August 25. 



W. Horace Hoskins, professor of veterin- 

 ary jurisprudence and dean of the New York 

 State Veterinary College at New York Univer- 

 sity, died on August 17, aged sixty-one years. 



W. E. RoLSTON, associated with Sir Nor- 

 man Lockyer in the work of the Solar Physics 

 Observatory at South Kensington until he en- 

 listed in 1915, has died at the age of forty- 

 five years. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The Journal of the Americal Medical As- 

 sociation states that members of the medical 

 faculty of the University of Maryland Medi- 

 cal School, have placed their resignations in 

 the hands of Dr. Albert F. Woods, president 

 of the university. This action has been initi- 

 ated by the medical men themselves in order 

 that the facility might be reorganized on a 

 " half-time pay " basis. Plans for reor- 

 ganization call for doubling the $500,000 a 



