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Kocher was given an ovation recently, by his 

 friends and pupils. The Swiss government, 

 the universities and institutes sent representa- 

 tives, as did many of the European surgical 

 societies. The Deutsche Zeitschrift fur 

 GUrurgie issued a special volume of 818 pages 

 as a Festschrift in his honor. He celebrated 

 the occasion by presenting the university 

 with $40,000 to endow scientific research. It 

 will be remembered that Kocher was awarded 

 the Nobel prize in medicine in 1909 for his 

 works on the thyroid. He was born August 

 S5, 1841, and is thus in his seventy-first year. 

 Dr. Herjiann Cohen, professor of philos- 

 ophy at Marburg, has celebrated his seventieth 

 birthday. On this occasion, Herr Siegfried 

 Brunn, of Berlin, has given 100,000 Marks to 

 the Jewish Institute of the university, for the 

 establishment of a Hermann Cohen professor- 

 ship. 



Professor Malins, who has held the chair 

 of midwifery in the University of Birming- 

 ham and Mason College, has resigned, and 

 has made the university a gift of £1,000. 



A GOLD medal has been awarded by the 

 Hoyal Horticultural Society to Professor E. 

 jSTewstead, F.E.S., of the University of Liver- 

 pool, for his exhibit of insects injurious to 

 cultivated plants on the occasion of the Eoyal 

 International Horticultural Exhibition held 

 in London in May last. 



Professor Eubens, director of the Berlin 

 Physical Laboratory, has been elected presi- 

 dent of the German Physical Society. 



Dr. J. Eeynolds Green has been appointed 

 Hartley lecturer in vegetable physiology in 

 the University of Liverpool. 



Dr. Wilhelm Ostwald, formerly professor 

 of chemistry in the University of Leipzig, ex- 

 pects to visit the United States this autumn. 

 Dr. S. W. Williston, professor of paleontol- 

 ogy in the University of Chicago, will spend 

 the autumn quarter of 1912 in an expedition 

 to British South Africa. Professor Williston 

 will be accompanied by Preparator Paul 

 Miller, his assistant, who will spend the whole 

 academic year in completing the work of the 

 expedition. 



Dean E. B. Greene and Professor G. A. 

 Goodenough, of the University of Illinois, will 

 attend the International Congress for the 

 Interchange of Students in London on 

 July 28. 



Professor and Mrs. S. A. Forbes will at- 

 tend the second International Congress of 

 Entomologists to be held at Oxford, England, 

 August 5 to 10. Dr. Forbes will go as a dele- 

 gate from the Entomological Society of 

 America, of which he is president; he will 

 read a paper on the black fly pellagra prob- 

 lem in Ulinois. 



Mr. F. W. Eane, state forester of Massa- 

 chusetts, has been delegated by Governor Foss 

 to represent the state at the second Interna- 

 tional Congress of Entomology, which is to 

 be held at Oxford, England, August 5 to 10, 

 1912. At the termination of the congress, 

 Mr. Eane will go on to the Black Forest of 

 Germany to study forestry conditions and the 

 gypsy moth question. 



A MOVEMENT has been started in Baltimore 

 to erect a monument to the dentist, Dr. 

 Chapin A. Harris, who, with Dr. Horace A. 

 Hayden, founded the first dental college in 

 the world, the Baltimore College of Dental 

 Surgery. 



The University of Chicago has received five 

 thousand dollars from Mrs. Myra T. Eicketts, 

 widow of the late Howard T. Eicketts, assist- 

 ant professor of pathology in the university, 

 to found a scholarship to be known as the 

 "Howard T. Eickett's Prize." This prize is 

 to be awarded annually for the best piece of 

 research presented by any student in the de- 

 partment of pathology and bacteriology. Dr. 

 Eicketts lost his life in 1910 in the city of 

 Mexico, from typhus fever, which he con- 

 tracted while engaged in the scientific investi- 

 gation of the disease. 



On the occasion of the celebration of the 

 bicentenary of the Trinity College Medical 

 School, a bronze medallion was unveiled in 

 the anatomical laboratory to Daniel John 

 Cunningham, who was for twenty years pro- 

 fessor of anatomy. 



