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supply might be made and at the same time 

 to save the heavy overhead operating expenses 

 at a period of the year when daily attendance 

 of visitors is very small. The station will open 

 again next December. Seventy thousand per- 

 sons visited the Aquarium during the recent 

 winter and spring months — January to Api'il, 

 1922. If the investigators specializing in 

 ichthyology decide to take advantage of the 

 unusual opportunity offered by the Biological 

 Laboratory, it will hereafter be kept in opera- 

 tion continuously throughout the year; other- 

 wise, the very heavy overhead expense makes its 

 twelve-month-a-year availability prohibitive, 

 and, as the station is supported by private con- 

 tribution, its laboratory will not be kept open 

 throughout the year unless a number of inves- 

 tigators decide to apply for tables. 



The laying of the cornerstone of the build- 

 ing to be erected in Panama by the Gorgas 

 Memorial has been postponed until February 

 7, 1923. It was intended to laj' the stone 

 during the visit to the isthmus of Dr. Eichard 

 Strong, of the School of Tropical Medicine of 

 Harvard University and member of the govern- 

 ing board of the Gorgas Memorial, but on the 

 suggestion of Admiral Braisted and others the 

 ceremony was deferred until next year, on the 

 occasion of a visit of a group from the Amer- 

 ican College of Surgeons. This group from 

 the College of Surgeons, numbering several 

 hundred, are planning a trip through South 

 America to hold clinics in the principal cities. 

 It is expected that they will hold a clinic in 

 Panama. In any event the party will cross the 

 Isthmus. That time is to be taken for the 

 laying of the cornerstone of the Gorgas Memo- 

 rial Building to be erected here. The building 

 in Panama for the Gorgas Memorial is to be 

 devoted to research in tropical medicine and 

 sanitation, and will house laboratories as well 

 as executive and record offices, etc. It will be 

 built on the seafront, close by the new Santo 

 Tomas Hospital, overlooking the Paeiiie. Its 

 cost is estimated at about $500,000. 



The Association to Aid Scientific Research 

 by Women reports that at the recent an- 

 nual meeting thirteen theses were submitted in 

 competition for the Ellen Richards Research 

 Prize of $1,000. Of these essays six were from 

 Great Britain, five from the United States, one 



from Australia and one from a Russian woman 

 doing research work in New York. Since its 

 establishment the prize has been awarded five 

 times, three times to American competitors and 

 twice to English competitors. While the prize 

 for 1922 was not awarded, as in the opinion of 

 the judges none of the essays were of the same 

 grade as those to which the prize has been 

 awarded previously, the judges gave such high 

 credit to one of the papers submitted that the 

 association voted honorable mention with a 

 grant of $1,000 to the author. This is the first 

 time the grant has been made, and it carries 

 with it the stipulation that "the grant shall be 

 made only on the basis of submitted work and 

 shall be used for the immediate continuation 

 or completion of a definite piece of research." 

 To these conditions the writer of the paper 

 entitled "An investigation of the critical elec- 

 tron energies associated with the excitation of 

 the spectra of helium and their significance in 

 relation to certain modern views of the sta- 

 tionary states of the helium atom" has agreed 

 and therefore the grant has been awarded to 

 Miss Anji Catherine Davies, Royal Holloway 

 College, Englefield Green, Surrey, England. 

 Miss Davies holds the B.Sc. degree from the 

 University of London, 1915, and the M.Sc. 

 degree from the same university, 1917. 



We learn from the British Medical Journal 

 that the officers of the Section of Anesthetics 

 at the forthcoming annual meeting of the Brit- 

 ish Medical Association in Glasgow have ar- 

 ranged the following program: (1) A discus- 

 sion on the broneho-pulmonary complications 

 following operation under anesthesia; (2) a 

 paper and demonstration by Dr. A. L. Flem- 

 ming on effects produced by exposing tissues 

 to various concentrations of anesthetic vapor; 

 (3) demonstration of anesthetic apparatus. 

 The officers of the Section of Microbiology 

 (including Bacteriology) have arranged the 

 following provisional program: (1) "The bac- 

 teriophage," by Dr. F. D'Herelle (Pasteur In- 

 stitute, Paris) and Dr. F. W. Twort; (2) "The 

 bacteriology of infiuenza," by Dr. Mervyn H. 

 Gordon; (3) "Some similarities and dissimi- 

 larities in the microbiology of plant and animal 

 diseases," by Professor V. H. Blackman; (4) 

 "Mutation of species," by Dr. W. B. Brierley. 

 Demonstrations will be arranged by Sir Wil- 



