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universities and philanthropic institutions in 

 New Jersey permission to make experiments 

 on animals under certain restrictions. The 

 Eockefeller Foundation for Medical Eesearch 

 will now begin work on the construction of a 

 laboratory near Princeton for the study of 

 animal diseases. The ground, buildings and 

 equipment of the new laboratory will cost, it 

 is estimated, $1,000,000. As has already been 

 announced. Dr. Theobald Smith, professor of 

 comparative pathology at Harvard, will direct 

 the institution. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that the Langenbeck- 

 Virchow building, the new home for the med- 

 ical and surgical societies of Berlin, is on the 

 point of completion. The library is already 

 being moved into the new quarters. By com- 

 bining several scattered medical libraries, it 

 starts with 113,000 volumes. 



According to a cablegram from Nish, dated 

 April 11, the British and French governments 

 are sending large numbers of military sur- 

 geons into Serbia to fight the epidemic of 

 typhus. Thirty English surgeons have al- 

 ready arrived. Fifty French physicians ar- 

 rived on April 10 and fifty more are expected 

 shortly, as well as a party sent out by the 

 Eockefeller Foundation and the American 

 Eed Cross. 



The Journal of Criminal Law and Crimin- 

 ology is entering upon the publication of a 

 series of monograph supplements which will 

 be knovsTQ as Criminal Science Monographs. 

 The first monograph is now in the press. It 

 vsdll appear early next fall under the title 

 "Pathological Swindling and Lying." Dr. 

 William Healy, of Chicago, is the author. 

 The volume will approximate two hundred 

 pages. Each number in this series will be 

 bound in cloth, and will come from the press 

 of Little, Brown and Co., Boston, Massachu- 

 setts. Persons who have manuscripts in hand 

 or in preparation, which they wish to have 

 considered for publication in this series should 

 communicate with Professor Eobert H. Gault, 

 Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. 

 The Prussian department of education has 

 petitioned the legislature for a continuance of 

 the appropriation of 25,000 marks, which for 



six years has been granted for cancer research, 

 on condition that private subscriptions would 

 double the amount. This has always been 

 done, and the private subscriptions are already 

 assured for 1915. The appropriation is de- 

 voted mainly to the cancer research work being 

 done under Professor Ehrlich's supervision. 



An institution for ethnological research has 

 been founded in Leipzig. The new institution 

 forms part of the King Friedrich August 

 Foundation for Scientific Eesearch. It is 

 aifiliated with the Ethnographic Museum of 

 Leipzig, and is furthermore in close connection 

 with the Ethnological Seminar at the .univer- 

 sity. Dr. Karl Weule, director of the museum, 

 is also director of the research institution. It 

 may be expected that excellent results will be 

 obtained by this concentration of eifort, which 

 contrasts favorably with the dispersion of 

 energy as found in cities like Vienna and St. 

 Petersburg and in most cities of the United 

 States. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 



Harvard University receives $100,000 by the 

 will of James J. Myers, of Cambridge. 



Gifts amounting to $72,908, to be devoted to 

 cancer research at the Harvard Medical 

 School, are announced. The sum of $50,000 

 was provided by the will of Philip C. Lock- 

 wood. 



By the win of Mrs. Laura L. Ogden Whal- 

 ing, of Cincinnati, Miami University receives 

 $250,000 for a dormitory with $10,000 for its 

 support. $10,000 is bequeathed to the alumni 

 loan fund. The residue of the estate is to be 

 divided between Miami University and the 

 Cincinnati Museum Association, and it is 

 said that each institution may receive $200,- 

 000. 



The Addison Brown collection of plants 

 offered to Amherst College by Mrs. Brown in 

 memory of her husband, at one time a member 

 of the class of 1852, has now come into pos- 

 session of the college. Containing many thou- 

 sands of specimens collected in the United 

 States, Mexico, Porto Eico, the Hawaiian Is- 

 lands and elsewhere, it is by far the largest ac- 

 cession ever received by the department. 



