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on the report of the special commission sent 

 by the foundation to China. To carry out 

 this work the foundation has established a 

 special organization to he called the China 

 Medical Board of the Eockefeller Foundation, 

 constituted as follows: John D. Eockefeller, 

 Jr., chairman; Wallace Buttrick, director; 

 Harry Pratt Judson, Frank J. Goodnow, Dr. 

 Simon Flexner, Jerome D. Greene, John R. 

 Mott, Dr. William H. Welch, Wickliffe Rose, 

 Starr J. Murphy, Dr. Francis W. Peabody and 

 Frederick T. Gates. E. C. Sage is secretary 

 of the board, and Roger S. Greene is to he the 

 resident director in Pekin. The plan outlined 

 by the commission looks to the development of 

 medical education in China as the first step. 

 With a view to building up a body of Chinese 

 medical men able to teach medical science, the 

 foundation has decided to establish six fellow- 

 ships, each of $1,000 gold a year and traveling 

 expenses, to enable Chinese graduates to study 

 abroad. Six fellows have been appointed, one 

 of whom is already in this country. 



The fifth annual award of the Willard Gibbs 

 Medal, founded by William A. Converse, of 

 Chicago, has been made to Arthur A. ISToyes, 

 director of the research laboratory of physical 

 chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology. Dr. ISToyes in receiving the medal will 

 address the Chicago Section of the American 

 Chemical Society upon the evening of April 

 16, his medal address being " A System of 

 Qualitative Analysis including nearly all the 

 Metallic Elements." The recipient of this 

 medal is determined by a jury of twelve, six of 

 whom only can be members of the Chicago 

 section, those outside the section being Alex- 

 ander Smith, W. A. ISToyes, W. H. Walker, 

 T. W. Richards, Leo Baekeland and W. F. 

 Hillebrand. Previous awards of this medal 

 have been to Arrhenius, T. W. Richards, 

 Baekeland and Remsen. 



Professor Robert Hallowell Richards 

 was given a complimentary dinner on March 

 18 by the Mining and Metallurgical Society of 

 America, the feature of which was the presen- 

 tation of the gold medal of the society by the 

 president, William R. Ingalls, former student 

 under Professor Richards at the Massachusetts 



Institute of Technology. The banquet was in 

 the Chemists' Club, New York, with a dis- 

 tinguished gathering of representative metal- 

 lurgists from various parts of the country. 

 The speakers besides Mr. Ingalls and Professor 

 Richards were: W. L. Saunders, president of 

 the American Institute of Mining Engineers; 

 Charles W. Goodale, general manager of the 

 Boston and Montana Department of the 

 Anaconda Copper Mine; F. A. Lidbury, presi- 

 dent of the American Electro-Chemical Soci- 

 ety, and David H. Brovme, metallurgical ex- 

 pert of the International Nickel Company. 



Dr. J. William White, professor emeritus 

 of surgery and one of the trustees of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, expects to enter the 

 American Ambulance Service in Paris during 

 the coming summer, taking with him a num- 

 ber of surgeons, physicians and nurses from 

 the University of Pennsylvania staff. 



The following have been selected by the 

 council of the Royal Society to be recona- 

 mended for election into the society : Professor 

 Frederick William Andrewes, Professor Arthur 

 William Conway, Mr. Leonard Doncaster, Mr. 

 John Evershed, Dr. Walter Morley Fletcher, 

 Professor Arthur George Green, Mr. Henry 

 Hubert Hayden, Dr. James Mackenzie, Pro- 

 fessor John Cunningham McLennan, Dr. 

 Arthur Thomas Masterman, Professor Gilbert 

 Thomas Morgan, Dr. Charles Samuel Myers, 

 Mr. George Clarke Simpson, Mr. Alan A. 

 Campbell Swinton, and Mr. Arthiir George 

 Tansley. 



To Surgeon-General William 0. Gorgas has 

 been awarded the Louis Livingston Seaman 

 medal for progress and achievement in the 

 promotion of hygiene and the mitigation of 

 occupational disease. 



At the thirty-third annual dinner of the 

 faculty of medicine of McGill University held 

 in Montreal on February 13, Dr. Lewellys 

 Franklin Barker, of the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, was the guest of honor. 



Professor George Pegram, of the depart- 

 ment of physics of Columbia University, has 

 been elected president of the Columbia chapter 

 of the Sigma Xi. 



