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We learn from the Journal of the Am eric an 

 Medical Association that the Eobert Koch 

 Foundation at Berlin for Research on Tuber- 

 culosis has granted a subsidy of $500 to Pro- 

 fessor Lexer, of Jena, for research on the 

 action of light rays on tuberculosis tissue, and 

 to Professor Kayserling, of Berlin, to carry on 

 his roentgenologic investigation of the distri- 

 bution and extent of infection in tuberculosis- 

 ridden families. 



The National Institute of Social Sciences 

 presented gold medals of the Institute to Dr. 

 Abraham Jacobi and Professor Henry Fair- 

 field Osbom at the New York Academy of 

 Medicine on March 20. 



The Council of the Royal Astronomical So- 

 ciety has elected to honorary membership Miss 

 Annie Cannon, of the staff of Harvard College 

 Observatory. 



Dr. Bakton Warren Evermann has resigned 

 the position of chief of the Alaska Fisheries 

 Service, IJnited States Bureau of Fisheries, 

 and that of curator, division of fishes. United 

 States National Museum, and has accepted the 

 directorship of the museum of the California 

 Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. Raymond Foss Bacon has been appointed 

 to succeed the late Dr. Duncan as director of 

 the Mellon Institute for Industrial Research of 

 the University of Pittsburgh. He was form- 

 erly associate director of the institute. 



LiEUT.-CoL. Charles F. Mason has been 

 appointed chief health officer of the Canal 

 Zone, and Lieut.-Col. George D. Deshon super- 

 intendent of the Ancon Hospital. 



Professor 0. E.-A. Winslow, of the New 

 York City College and the American Museum 

 of Natural History, has been appointed advis- 

 ory expert on public health education by the 

 New York State Commission of Health. 



Dr. Philip Adolph Kober has resigned as 

 research chemist in the Harriman Research 

 Laboratory of the Roosevelt Hospital, his re- 

 signation to take effect at the end of Sep- 

 tember. 



Professor Lohnis, of the laboratory for 

 agricultural bacteriology in the University of 



Leipzig, has accepted a call to a position in 

 the Department of Agriculture at Washington. 



Mr. J. Adams, assistant in botany in the 

 Royal College of Science, Dublin, has been ap- 

 pointed to a position under the Canadian 

 government. 



Dr. Hans von Staff, decent for geology at 

 Berlin, has been appointed geologist for Ger- 

 man Southwest Africa. 



At the recent meeting in Chicago of the 

 Association of Medical Colleges, officers were 

 elected as follows : President, Dr. Isadore 

 Dyer, Tulane University; Vice-president, Dr. 

 Charles R. Bardeen, University of Wisconsin; 

 Secretary-treasurer, Dr. Fred. C. Zapffe, 3431 

 Lexington Street, Chicago; Mernbers Execu- 

 tive Council, Dr. William J. Means, chairman, 

 Ohio State University; Dr. Randolph Win- 

 slow, University of Maryland; Dr. Egbert Le 

 Fevre, University and Bellevue Hospital Medi- 

 cal College ; Dr. F. C. Waite, Western Reserve 

 University, and Dr. E. P. Lyon, University of 

 Minnesota. 



Dr. David Staer Jordan has sailed from 

 Italy for Australia, where he is giving a series 

 of lectures. He wiU visit Ceylon, where he 

 will make a collection of fishes and later ex- 

 pects to make a study of the results of the 

 war in the Balkan States. He plans to reacli 

 California late in August. 



President Harry Pratt Judson, of the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, will go to China under the 

 auspices of the Rockefeller Foundation of 

 New York to examine and report on the situa- 

 tion there in regard to medicine, surgery and 

 public health. The party wiU include also a 

 medical expert. They will sail from New 

 York on March 21, proceeding to Paris and 

 thence to Moscow, arriving at Peking on April 

 19. President Judson will visit the principal 

 places in China where work of the character in 

 question is carried on. During the heat of the 

 summer President and Mrs. Judson expect to 

 spend some time in Japan, and early in the 

 autimm they may go to southern China, sailing 

 from Hongkong for San Francisco and stop- 

 ping at Honolulu on the way. The investiga- 

 tions in China will occupy six months. 



