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brink of striking developments in our knowl- 

 edge of the structure of tb.e elusive atom. 

 Whatever may be the outcome of researches 

 now prosecuted with so much zeal and success, 

 I feel that Addison was speaking with the 

 voice of prophetic truth when, more than a 

 hundred years ago, he said: 



Every atom is a standing miracle and endowed 

 with sueh qualities as coiild not be impressed upon 

 it by a Power and a Wisdom less than infinite. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The colleagues of Professor Theobald Smith 

 on account of the impending severance of his 

 connection with Harvard University after a 

 service of twenty years to become a member of 

 the Eockefeller Institute of Medical Eesearch, 

 are arranging to present a bas-relief of Pro- 

 fessor Smith to the medical school and reduc- 

 tions of this will be made and presented to 

 each donor of $10 or more to the fund. A 

 complimentary dinner will be given to Pro- 

 fessor Smith on AprU lY. 



A " GoRGAS Medal " to be given yearly in 

 honor of Surgeon-General Gorgas has been 

 established by the medical reserve corps, TJ. S. 

 army, New York state division. This medal 

 is open to competition to members of the 

 medical corps of the United States army, to 

 medical reserve corps of the army and to 

 members of the medical corps of the organized 

 mUitia. Officers may submit papers on any 

 subject of a medico-military nature. 



The Cornell Society of Civil Engineers held 

 on January 23 in New York City its tenth 

 annual dinner and reunion. The chief guest 

 was Professor Charles D. Marx, of Leland 

 Stanford Junior University, who has recently 

 been elected president of the American Society 

 of Civil Engineers. 



Dr. J. Scott Keltie, secretary of the Eoyal 

 Geographical Society, has been awarded the 

 Cullum gold medal of the American Geo- 

 graphical Society. 



The Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia has elected as correspondents Frank 

 Dawson Adams, of Montreal, and Alfred 

 Werner, of Zurich. 



Dr. H. E. Eobertson, of the University of 

 Minnesota, is working in Professor Aschofi's 

 laboratory and clinic at Ereiburg, Baden. He 

 reports himself as the only foreign student at 

 present in attendance. The staff of over thirty 

 members has been reduced to five and the 

 number of students from 130 to 40. 



Three physicians of forty who took the 

 recent civil service examination for the posi- 

 tion of director of public health education, 

 in the city of New York, have been placed on 

 the eligible list, and President Henry Mosko- 

 witz of the municipal commission is reported 

 to have said that an appointment will be made 

 within a few days by Health Commissioner 

 Goldwater. The eligible candidates are: Dr. 

 Ira S. Wile, Dr. Winthrop Talbot and Dr. 

 Charles F. Bolduan. 



The Fenger Fellowship of $600 for 1915 has 

 been assigned to Dr. George L. Mathers, of 

 the resident staff of the Cook County Hos- 

 pital, Chicago, who will carry on work on cer- 

 tain bacteriological problems in pneumonia. 



Mr. George P. Vanier, of Steelton, Pa., has 

 been awarded a certificate of merit by The 

 Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pa., for his 

 potash bulb. This bulb has been particularly 

 designed for use in the determination, in in- 

 dustrial laboratories, of the total carbon in 

 iron or steel. Mr. Vanier is chief chemist of 

 the Pennsylvania Steel Co., Steelton, Pa. He 

 has also designed zinc tubes and sulphuric 

 acid bulbs for use in connection with the 

 Vanier combustion train for the determuiation 

 of carbon in steel by the direct combustion 

 method with the electric furnace. 



Professor Arthur Keith, conservator of 

 the museum at the Eoyal College of Surgeons 

 of England, wiU deliver, during the latter 

 part of March, a course of five lectures on 

 the bearing of recent discoveries on our con- 

 ception of the evolution and antiquity of man. 



Colonel George W. Goethals, who has been 

 appointed Stafford Little lecturer on public 

 affairs at Princeton University for this year, 

 delivered an illustrated lecture on the Panama 

 Canal at Princeton on Wednesday evening, 

 January 27, in Alexander HaU. Owing to the 



