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The Guthrie lecture of the Physical Society 

 was given on March 24 at the Imperial College 

 of Science, by Professor N. Bohr, who took as 

 his subject, "The effect of electric and mag- 

 netic fields on spectral lines." 



Sir Eenest Rutherford will deliver a lec- 

 ture on the "Evolution of the Elements" before 

 the Royal Institution on April 7. Recent lec- 

 tures before the institution include one by 

 Thomas R. Merton on the "Problems in the 

 variability of spectra," and one by A. P. 

 Laurie on "The pigments and mediums of the 

 old Masters." 



The John M. Dodson lecture of the Rush 

 Medicail College, established by the alumni in 

 1919 in recognition of Dr. Dodson's service to 

 the college, was delivered on March 17 by Dr. 

 Ray Lyman Wilbur, president of Stanford 

 University, whose subject was : "Medicine : a 

 look ahead." 



As a memorial to Alfred Noble in recogni- 

 tion of his distinguished achievements in the 

 field of engineering, a bronze tablet, the gift of 

 the American Institute of Consulting Engi- 

 neers, was unveiled on March 15 in the Engi- 

 neering Societies Building, New York. Charles 

 W. Leavitt, consulting engineer, made the ad- 

 dress of presentation and J. Davies, consulting 

 engineer, accepted the memorial in behalf of 

 the United Engineering Society. 



It is proposed to appoint a committee for 

 the purpose of collecting the necessary funds 

 with which to erect a monument to Professor 

 Chauveau, who died in January, 1917. M. 

 Chauveau was formerly president of the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Medi- 

 cine, the Society of Biology and the JPrench 

 Association for the Advancement of Science. 



The balance of the Rayleigh Memorial Fund 

 has been given to the library of the Cavendish 

 Laboratory. The library is to be called the 

 Rayleigh Library. Six hundred pounds is to 

 be separately invested in the Rayleigh Library 

 endowment fund for experimental physics, and 

 the income accruing is to be paid to the Caven- 

 dish professor for the purposes of the library. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that the tenth anniversary of the 



death of Lister brings within view the comple- 

 tion of a scheme to honor his memory. Soon 

 after his death the question of a memorial was 

 taken up, but the war prevented its being car- 

 ried out. A representative committee was ap- 

 pointed, and collected $60,000, which was sub- 

 scribed from aU over the world. Out of this 

 has been established the International Lister 

 Fund for the Advancement of Surgery. A sum 

 of $2,500, with a bronze medal, will be award- 

 ed every three years, ii-respective of nationality, 

 in recognition of distinguished contributions to 

 surgery, the recipient being required to give an 

 address in London under the auspices of the 

 Royal College of Surgeons. Sir Thomas Brock, 

 the sculptor, has executed a memorial tablet to 

 Lister, which was unveiled in Westminster 

 Abbey in 1915. He is at present engaged in 

 designing a bronze bust to be mounted on a 

 pedestal in Portland Place, near Lister's last 

 home. The bust and pedestal will stand about 

 21 feet high. 



The death is reported at Charleston, S. C, 

 of Captain William C. Hodgkins of the Boston 

 field station of the United States Coast and 

 Gieodetic Survey, at the age of sixty-eight 

 years. 



Philip Aegall, mining engineer, an author- 

 ity on metallurgy, died in Denver, on March 

 19, at the age of sixty-eight years. 



The annual meeting of the American Oil 

 Chemists' Society will be held at the Grunewald 

 Hotel, New Orleans, on May 8 and 9. A large 

 attendance is anticipated and arrangements are 

 being made for entertainment, as well as the 

 usual program of business. 



Establishment of fellowships in medicine 

 to increase the supply of qualified teachers and 

 investigators, is announced by the National 

 Research Council. The fellowships, supported 

 by appropriations of the Rockefeller Founda- 

 tion and the General Education Board, will be 

 open to Americans or Canadians of either sex 

 holding or qualified to hold degrees of doctor 

 of medicine or doctor of philosophy from ap- 

 proved universities. The appropriations are 

 $100,000 a year for five years. Successful can- 

 didates, to be known as Fellows in Medicine 

 of the National Research Council, will be at 



