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it indicates merely Dr. Wallace's name and 

 dates of birth and death. 



As we have already noted a monument has 

 been erected at Finse, among the mountains 

 of southern Norway, in memory of Captain 

 Scott and his companions. We learn from the 

 Geographical Journal that at the unveiling of 

 the monument on December 28 by Dr. Skat- 

 tum, vice-president of the Norwegian Geo- 

 graphical Society, made feeling reference to 

 the noble characters and heroic deaths of the 

 explorers. " Could anything," he asked, " be 

 conceived more elevating from its grand ideal- 

 ity, than the conduct of Scott and his follow- 

 ers during their final death-march? It repre- 

 sented the very highest display of moral 

 strength, the greatest possible exhibition of 

 physical and mental fortitude and endurance." 

 A second monument, subscribed for by Nor- 

 wegian friends and admirers, and by British 

 residents in Norway, will be erected at Fefor 

 in Gudbrandsdalen, the place chosen by Scott 

 for the trial of his motor sledges and other 

 polar outfit. A memorial to Lieutenant Bow- 

 ers, placed in Bombay Cathedral by his fellow- 

 ofiicers of the Eoyal Indian Marine, has also 

 been lately unveiled, the ceremony being per- 

 formed by Lord Willingdon, governor of Bom- 

 bay. It is in the form of a simple tablet of 

 marble, with an inscription quoting Captain 

 Scott's tribute to Bowers as " cheerful, hope- 

 ful and indomitable to the' end." 



Dr. James J. Soannell, director of the bac- 

 teriological laboratory of the Boston Board of 

 Health, died on February 19. 



Dr. Adam Massinger, of the Heidelberg Ob- 

 servatory, has been killed in the war. 



Dr. O. K. Sprengel, surgeon-in-chief of the 

 public hospital at Braunschweig and president 

 of the German Surgical Association, has died 

 from septic infection, professionally acquired, 

 aged sixty-two years. 



Dr. William J. Mayo and Dr. Charles H. 

 Mayo, of Eochester, Minn., the distinguished 

 surgeons, have decided to establish a $1,000,000 

 foundation for medical research and to place 

 the foundation, under certain restrictions, in 

 the hands of the University of Minnesota 



board of regents. It is planned that interest 

 from the fund be used in research work at 

 Eochester, open to graduate university medical 

 students and leading to an additional degree 

 granted by the university. 



MiDDLEBURY COLLEGE has received for its 

 botanical collection from Miss Annie Lorenz, 

 of Hartford, Conn., a nearly complete set of 

 the Hepatics of Vermont. 



We learn from the British Medical Journal 

 that the statutory annual general meeting of 

 the British Medical Association will be held 

 this year, and also a meeting of the repre- 

 sentative body, but at its meeting on January 

 2T the council decided that it would not be 

 desirable, owing to the conditions brought 

 about by the war, to hold the usual full annual 

 meeting, with its scientific sections and social 

 arrangements. A very large number of mem- 

 bers of the association are directly occupied in 

 work with the army in the field, or with the 

 new armies that are being prepared, or in 

 treating the wounded, while others not so en- 

 gaged find the calls upon their time and energy, 

 due to the withdrawal of so many medical 

 men from ordinary practise, altogether un- 

 usual. Moreover, the annual meeting was to 

 have been held this year in Cambridge, but the 

 special circumstances of a university town 

 deprived of many of its teachers and students 

 by the war, and heavily committed to assist the 

 Belgian universities, whose work has been 

 suspended in their own country, make it im- 

 possible for Cambridge to maintain its invita- 

 tion for this year. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that medical students from the 

 University of Toronto will largely compose 

 the staff of the Clearing Hospital which will 

 accompany the Second Canadian Contingent 

 to France. Between forty and fifty fifth-year 

 medical students will be taken following a re- 

 quest for volunteers. They will be given credit 

 for their year on enlisting. The organization 

 of the unit is in charge of Dr. George S. 

 Eennie, Hamilton, Ont. When it arrives in 

 France it will be in charge of Dr. Wallace A. 

 Scott, Toronto, who went with the first con- 

 tingent. Accompanying it will be Dr. George 



