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faction either to the student or his pro- 

 fessor. 



Finally the belief may be emphasized 

 that experience in actual investigation must 

 be of immense benefit to the student who 

 wishes to approach medicine in the scien- 

 tific spirit which the times demand. The 

 use of sphygmographie tracings, blood- 

 pressure determinations, and quantitative 

 chemical analyses as every-day aids in the 

 elucidation of a diagnosis requires a mind 

 trained to think in such terms. This is the 

 reason the student turns to the laboratory. 

 He wishes to find out how problems of in- 

 vestigation are approached in order that 

 he may make successful problems of his 

 eases. If, as Dr. Howell believes, "the 

 group of serious workers in medical sci- 

 ence will be recruited from this body of 

 students, ' ' from the men who, in the words 

 of Dr. Wells, will approach each case "in 

 the same spirit that a laboratory man ap- 

 proaches his problems" — then surely it is 

 worth while to make room in the curriculum 

 for their growth. 



Cecil K. Drinker 



University op Pennsylvania 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The council of the Eoyal Society has made 

 awards as follows : A Eoyal medal to Professor 

 William Mitchinson Hicks, F.R.S., for his re- 

 searches in mathematical physics and investi- 

 gations on the theory of spectroscopy. A 

 Eoyal medal to Professor Grafton Elliot 

 Smith, F.E.S., for his researches on the com- 

 parative anatomy of the brain. The Copley 

 medal to Professor Felix Klein, of Gottingeu, 

 For.Mem.E.S., for his researches in mathe- 

 matics. The Eumford medal to Professor 

 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, of Leyden, for his 

 researches at low temperatures. The Davy 

 medal to Professor Otto Wallach, of Got- 

 tingen, for his researches on the chemistry of 

 the essential oils and the cyclo-olefines. The 

 Darwin medal to Dr. Francis Darwin, F.R.S. , 



for his work in conjunction with Charles Dar- 

 win, and for his researches in vegetable physi- 

 ology. The Buchanan medal to Colonel Wil- 

 liam C. Gorgas, of the United States Army, 

 for his sanitary administration of the works 

 of the Panama Canal. The Hughes medal to 

 Mr. William Duddell, F.R.S., for his investi- 

 gations in technical electricity. 



The council of the Royal Society has made 

 nominations for the year 1913 as follows: 

 President, Sir Archibald Geikie; Treasurer, 

 Sir Alfred B. Kempe; Secretaries, Sir John 

 Bradford, Professor A. Schuster; Foreign 

 Secretary, Dr. D. H. Scott; Other Mernbers of 

 the Council, Lieut.-Col. A. W. Alcoek, Mr. A. 

 J. Balfour, Sir William Crookes, Dr. F. W. 

 Dyson, Professor W. Gowland, Sir Joseph 

 Larmor, Professor E. W. MacBride, Mr. W. B. 

 Hardy, Professor Micaiah J. M. Hill, Sir 

 Ronald Ross, Professor G. Elliot Smith, Pro- 

 fessor A. Smithells, Dr. J. J. Harris Teall, 

 Professor Silvanus P. Thompson, Sir J. J. 

 Thomson and Sir Philip Watts. 



Captain Eoald Amundsen, who lectured be- 

 fore the Scottish Geographical Society on No- 

 vember 21, was given the Livingstone Gold 

 Medal of the society. 



Peofessob G. a. Miller, of the University 

 of Illinois, was elected a corresponding mem- 

 ber of the Spanish Mathematical Society at 

 its general meeting, held at Madrid, April 26, 

 1912. The only other corresponding member 

 of this society is M. H. Brocard, of Bar-le- 

 Duc, France. 



The governing body of Magdalene College, 

 Cambridge, has awarded a research student- 

 ship to Mr. E. Hindle, B.A., Beit fellow, who 

 has been working at pathogenic protozoa in 

 the laboratory of Professor Nuttall. 



The annual public address of the Entomo- 

 logical Society of America will be given at 

 the Cleveland meeting of the society on Wed- 

 nesday evening, January 1, at 8 :00 p.m., by 

 Dr. Philip P. Calvert, of the University of 

 Pennsylvania. His subject will be " An Ento- 

 mologist in Costa Rica." He will give an ac- 

 count of a year spent in this entomologically 



