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the University of Leipzig. 



By the will of the late Professor E. C. Han- 

 sen, of Copenhagen, a prize has been founded 

 to consist of a gold medal and a sum of at 

 least 2,000, crowns, to be awarded every two 

 or three years for distinguished work in micro- 

 biology, published within the preceding years 

 in Denmark or elsewhere. It is proposed in 

 1922 to confer the medal on some worker in 

 general not medical microbiology. The founda- 

 tion is in charge of the chiefs of the Carlsberg 

 Laboratory at Copenhagen. Professor C. 0. 

 Jensen and Professor S. P. L. Sorensen, Profes- 

 sor Calmette of Paris and Professor Theobald 

 Smith of Princeton are also on the committee of 

 awards. 



A CONFERENCE of those who teach physiology 

 in the women's colleges of the northeast was 

 held at ^Xlount Holyoke College on April 21 and 

 22. The conference had to do almost entirely 

 with teaching problems, since there have been 

 very few opportunities for such discussions at 

 the usual scientific meetings. Among the topics 

 were the aims of the courses given at the various 

 institutions, the prerequisites and content of 

 the courses, the choice of material for experi- 

 mental purposes, the affiliations of physiology 

 with chemistry, physics, zoology and hygiene, 

 and the type of research possible with under- 

 graduates. The institutions represented were 

 Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Connecticut, Goucher, 

 !Mount Holyoke, Simmons, Smith, Vassar and 

 Wellesley. 



William Wood & Co. have transferred pub- 

 lication of the New York Medical Record to the 

 A. R. Elliott Advertising Agency, which pub- 

 lishes the Neiv York Medical Journal and the 

 American Druggist. The Medical Record was 

 first issued in March, 1866. Dr. George F. 

 Schrady was editor of the journal from its in- 

 ception until his death in November, 1907, 

 since which time it has been under the editorial 

 management of Dr. Thomas L. Stedman. 



The publication of the Behavior Monographs 

 will be discontinued upon the completion of the 

 current volume (Volume 4) and a new series of 

 Comparative Psychology Monographs will be 

 initiated under the editorship of Professor Wal- 



ler S. Hunter, of the University of Kansas, with 

 the cooperation of Professor H. A. Carr, of the 

 University of Chicago, Professor S. J. Holmes 

 of the University of California, Professor K. S. 

 Lashley, of the University of Minnesota and 

 Dr. R. M. Yerkes, of the National Research 

 Council. The new monograph series will be 

 broader in scope than the old and, in addition 

 to studies in animal behaviour, will publish 

 work in human psychology conducted from the 

 comparative point of view. 



The Permanent Bureau of All-Russian En- 

 tomo-Phytopathological Congresses, Petrograd, 

 desires: (1) To exchange printed matter (pub- 

 lished since 1914) on entomology, phytopathol- 

 ogjf, mycology and zoology, with American col- 

 leagues, scientific societies, agricultural experi- 

 ment stations, museums of natural history, 

 periodicals, etc.; (2) To receive from Ameri- 

 can publishers catalogues and specimen numbers 

 of various publications on the above mentioned 

 subjects; (3) to receive catalogues and price 

 lists from American firms dealing in apparatus 

 and chemicals used in combating plant enemies. 

 Mr. D. N. Borodin will forward packages of 

 books, bulletins, etc. for Russia, addressed to 

 him at No. 110 West 40th Street, New York 

 City. 



The Kelp-Potash Plant of the Bureau of 

 Soils, U. S. Department of Agriculture, at Sum- 

 merland, California, was sold and transferred 

 on April 1 to Mr. Rodney Benson of Santa Bar- 

 bara. This plant was constructed in 1917 and 

 operated for four years as an experimental and 

 demonstrational plant with a view to the devel- 

 opment of processes for extracting potash and 

 by-products from the giant kelps of the Pacific. 

 It was closed through Congressional action in 

 1921. The plant will be enlarged and put back 

 into operation at once for the manufacture of 

 "Kelpchar" (a decolorizing carbon of very high 

 activity), potash salts, and iodine. Dr. J. W. 

 Turrentine, who was in charge of the plant 

 throughout the period of the experimentation, 

 after turning over to the Government's succes- 

 sors the manufacturing data established there, 

 will return to Washington, D. C. 



The Journal of the Washington Academy of 

 Sciences reports that Dr. T. T. Wat«rman, lately 



