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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLI. No. 1060 



pamphlets devoted to biology. It has several 

 complete series of journals and some others 

 of which only a few volumes are lacking. 



The most imperative need of the laboratory 

 is a new building capable of accommodating 

 twenty investigators at one time, with a prac- 

 tically fireproof part for the library and valu- 

 able apparatus. Another necessity is a larger 

 income. At present the laboratory is supported 

 by subventions from several institutions. For 

 several years the work has been carried on at 

 an expenditure of less than $500 in any one 

 year. Out of this small sum a collector has 

 been employed, the absolutely essential sup- 

 plies have been bought and some additions 

 have been made each year to the permanent 

 equipment. 



During the coming season the laboratory 

 win be open from about June 20 to Septem- 

 ber 10. It offers especial facilities for the 

 embryology of the fishes and for experimental 

 work on that most favorable material, the eggs 

 of Cerehratulus and of Echinarachnius. The 

 more northern fauna marks the laboratory off 

 from similar institutions farther south, while 

 the location assures one of a cool summer. 

 No instruction is given, but the facilities are 

 offered free to those competent to carry on 

 investigations. All communications as to 

 places in the laboratory as well as to 

 accommodations in the town should be ad- 

 dressed to either Professor H. V. Neal, Tufts 

 College, Mass., or to J. S. Kingsley, Urbana, 

 Illinois. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Dr. J. George Adami, professor of pathology 

 in McGill University, Montreal, has left for 

 England to take up work as a member of the 

 British War Oifice, having charge of the prep- 

 ai-ation of a medical history of the war. 



Dr. S. Alfred Mitchell, formerly assistant 

 professor of astronomy at Columbia University, 

 and now director of the Leander McCormick 

 Observatory at the University of Virginia, has 

 been appointed Ernest Kempton Adams Ee- 

 search Fellow by the trustees of Columbia 

 University. 



Owing to the illness of Dr. Theobald Smith, 

 the dinner which was to be given in his honor 



at the Harvard Club, Boston, on April 17, has 

 been postponed until June. 



The Medical Club of Philadelphia announces 

 a reception to be given at the BeUevue- 

 Stratford, on April 23, in honor of Edgar Fahs 

 Smith, LL.D., provost of the University of 

 Pennsylvania; Alba B. Johnson, Esq., for the 

 president of Jefferson Medical College; David 

 Milne, Esq., president of the Medico-Chirur- 

 gical College of Philadelphia, and Eussel H. 

 Conwell, D. D., president of Temple University. 



Dr. Edmund B. Wilson, Da Costa professor 

 of zoology at Columbia University, has been 

 appointed by the trustees to be speaker at the 

 opening exercises of the university, on Sep- 

 tember 22. 



The van't Hoff fund committee of the Acad- 

 emy of Sciences of Amsterdam has awarded 

 $120 to Dr. E. D. Tsakalotos, of Athens, in aid 

 of his researches on the thermal properties, 

 the viscosity and the magnetic susceptibility of 

 binary mixtures, capable of yielding endo- 

 thermic compounds. 



The Academy of Sciences at Vienna has 

 allowed $200 to Professor H. Dexler, of Prague, 

 to aid in continuing his studies on stimulation, 

 of the brain cortex in the horse, and $150 to 

 Dr. E. Pernkopf, of Vienna, to aid in his study 

 of the development of the intestines and 

 omentum. 



Dr. George Sarton, editor of Isis, who was 

 compelled to leave Belgium with his family 

 on account of the war, has accepted a lecture- 

 ship at George Washington University. Dr. 

 Sarton will lecture on the history of science. 

 At the close of the war, it is his intention to 

 return to Belgium and resume the publication 

 of Isis. 



The Longstaff medal for 1915, of the Chem- 

 ical Society, London, has been presented to 

 Dr. M. O. Forster, F.E.S. 



The Samuel D. Gross prize of the Philadel- 

 phia Academy of Medicine for the year 1915 

 has been awarded to Dr. John Lawrence Yates, 

 of Milwaukee, for his essay entitled, " Surgery 

 in the Treatment of Hodgkin's Disease." The 

 amount of this prize is $1,500. 



