Pebeuakt 16, 1917] 



SCIENCE 



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Dr. E. Saundby has been appointed by tie 

 Eoyal College of Physicians, London, Harve- 

 ian Orator; Dr. E. S. Eeynolds to be Bradshaw 

 Lecturer for this year, and Dr. T. M. Legge 

 to be Milroy Lecturer for 1918. 



At the Eoyal Institution Professor C. S. 

 Sherrington is giving a course of six lectures 

 on " The Old Brain and the New Brain, and 

 their Meaning," and Mr. A. E. Hinks, F.E.S., 

 two lectures, on " The Lakes and Mountains 

 of Central Africa." 



EuDOLF VON VmCHOw's family have donated 

 to the Berlin " Goldsammelstelle " seven gold 

 medals that had been conferred on Virchow 

 by foreign scientific organizations. The 

 medals have a total weight of 1,200 gm. and 

 are valued at about $650. The heirs of 

 Mommsen have taken a similar step, turning 

 in to the gold reserve the medals that had 

 been awarded to Mommsen in his day. 



The Chemical Society of France held a 

 memorial meeting, on December 9, on the 

 hundredth anniversary of the birth of the 

 French chemist, 0. F. Gerhardt, 1816-1856, 

 known for his work on the structure of the 

 molecule. 



Mr. Andrea Angel, chief chemist at the 

 factory at Woolwich where the recent explo- 

 sion occurred, the story of whose self-sacrifice 

 is told in the ofiicial report of the disaster, 

 was born in 187Y. Educated at Christ Church, 

 Oxford, he was lectiu-er in natural science at 

 Brasenose and also hon. tutor in chemistry 

 to the non-collegiate students. 



Professor E. Gaupp, professor of anatomy 

 in Breslau, died on ITovember 24, 1916. 



The death is announced of the former pro- 

 fessor of ophthalmology at the Universities of 

 Bern and Eostock, Dr. von Zehender, aged 

 ninety-one years. 



In preparation for the next annual meeting 

 of the American Medical Association, which is 

 to be held in New York diiring the week of 

 June 4—10, a large committee of local physi- 

 cians has been formed charged with perfect- 

 ing the details necessary to make such a meet- 

 ing a success. Dr. Wendell C. Phillips is 

 chairman. Dr. Alexander Lambert is treas- 



urer and Dr. Floyd M. Crandall is secretary 

 of the ISTew York Committee of Arrangements. 

 The headquarters of the committee are in the 

 Academy of Medicine, 17 West 43d Street. 

 Subcommittees have been formed dealing with 

 finance, registration, entertainment, hotels, 

 sections, scientific exhibit, commercial exhibit, 

 press and publicity, and golf. On the two days 

 preceding the meeting, namely, on June 4 

 and 5, there will be a clinical congress, dur- 

 ing which clinics, demonstrations and tours 

 of inspection will be conducted in hospitals, 

 laboratories, clinics and scientific institutions 

 throughout the city. The organization of the 

 features to be made available at this time has 

 been entrusted to over thirty different sections, 

 representing general medicine, pharmacology 

 and therapeutics, pathology and physiology, 

 preventive medicine and hygiene, pediatrics, 

 dermatology, neurology, mental diseases, gen- 

 eral surgery, orthopedic surgery, gynecology, 

 obstetrics, urology, rectum and colon, ophthal- 

 mology, otology, rhinology and laryngology, 

 stomatology, roentgenology, anesthetics, and 

 women physicians. In addition to this, there 

 are sections dealing with allied topics, such as 

 trained nursing and training schools, district 

 nursing, hospital social service, planning and 

 financing of municipal and non-municipal 

 hospitals, hospital superintendents and execu- 

 tives, and military surgery and Eed Cross. 



A BILL prepared by the California state 

 board of health carrying with it an appro- 

 priation of $500,000 provides for the estab- 

 lishment of a state psychopathic hospital to 

 be located near the University of California 

 Medical School in San Francisco, to be gov- 

 erned by the university regents with the pro- 

 fessor of psychiatry as ex-officio director. The 

 hospital is to provide not only a research labo- 

 ratory but treatment for all patients requiring 

 special or intensive study for a short period. 



A NUMBER of members of the Kaiser Wil- 

 helm Association have planned a German in- 

 stitute for research on psychiatry. The funds 

 subscribed as yet do not permit an independ- 

 ent establishment, but it is proposed to organ- 

 ize an institute of the kind as a branch of the 

 Munich psychiatric clinic. 



