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or we cannot hope to attract and keep the best 

 men in the teaching profession, nor can we 

 enable those already in it to represent the in- 

 tellectual and moral interests of the com- 

 munity as those interests should be repre- 

 sented. A capital sum of five million dollars, 

 yielding 4^ per cent, per annum, is required 

 at the present time to establish a proper rate 

 of compensation for the teaching staff of Co- 

 lumbia University, without adding a single 

 new instructor to that staff. This need is so 

 imperative and the public interests affected by 

 it are so large and so important, that the 

 mere statement of it ought to bring us the 

 needed sum, great though it is, from the men 

 and women who are the large-minded posses- 

 sors of wealth in this community. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 The Nobel prize in medicine for 1906 will 

 be divided between Professor Camillo Golgi 

 (Pavia) and Professor Eamon y Cajal 

 (Madrid). 



The Eoyal Society's medals have this year 

 been adjudicated by the president and council 

 as follows: the Copley medal to Professor 

 Elias Metchnikoff for the importance of his 

 work in zoology and in pathology; the Rum- 

 ford medal to Professor Hugh Longbourne 

 Callendar for his experimental work on heat; 

 a Eoyal medal to Professor Alfred George 

 Greenhill for his contributions to mathe- 

 matics, especially the elliptic functions and 

 their applications; a Eoyal medal to Dr. 

 Dukinfield Henry Scott for his investigations 

 and discoveries in connection with the struc- 

 ture and relationships of fossil plants; the 

 Davy Medal to Professor Eudolf Fittig for his 

 investigations in chemistry and especially for 

 his work in lactones and acids; the Darwin 

 medal to Professor Hugo de Vries on the 

 ground of the significance and extent of his 

 experimental investigations in heredity and 

 variation; the Hughes medal to Mrs. W. E. 

 Ayrton for her experimental investigations on 

 the electric arc and also upon sand ripples. 

 The medals will, as usual, be presented at the 

 anniversary meeting on St. Andrew's Day 

 (ISTovember 30). 



Lord Eayleigh has been recommended for 

 reelection as president of the Eoyal Society 

 and the other officers will be the same as last 

 year, except that the following new members 

 of the council have been nominated: Lord 

 Avebury, Sir Benjamin Baker, K.C.B., Dr. H. 

 F. Baker, Prof. David Ferrier, Prof. Sydney 

 J. Hickson, Dr. Alexander Scott, Prof. A. C. 

 Seward, Prof. W. J. Sollas, Prof. E. H. 

 Starling, Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson, and 

 Dr. A. D. Waller. 



A PORTRAIT of Dr. Henry M. Hurd, super- 

 intendent of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, was 

 presented to the hospital by the medical staff 

 at a dinner given in honor of Dr. Hurd on 

 November 1. Dr. William H. Welch presided 

 at the dinner and made the presentation 

 speech, and speeches were also made by Dr. 

 Ira Eemsen and Dr. D. C. Gilman. The por- 

 trait, which is by Mr. Chase, will be hung in 

 the library. Dr. Hurd sailed for Europe on 

 November 5, where he will remain for about 

 a year. 



In the early part of October the Yale Asso- 

 ciation of Japan gave a reception in honor of 

 Professor G. T. Ladd, who is now in Tokyo. 



Professor Th. W. Eichards, who is going 

 to Berlin in the second half year as Har- 

 vard's representative in the annual exchange 

 of professors, will give while there a course of 

 lectures on the 'Fundamental constants of 

 physical chemistry.' 



Professor L, H. Bailey, director of the 

 College of Agriculture, Cornell University, 

 was elected president of the Association of 

 Agricultural Experiment Stations at its re- 

 cent meeting at Baton Eouge. 



Mme. Curie gave her inaugural lecture at 

 the Sorbonne on November 6. 



We learn from The American Anthropolo- 

 gist that the title of honorary curator has 

 been conferred by the Cincinnati Museum As- 

 sociation on Mr. Philip M. Hinkle, who has 

 undertaken the care of its collections relating 

 to American archeology. With him are asso- 

 ciated Mr. Frederick W. Hinkle and Dr. G. 

 B. Ehodes. 



Mr. Eobert H. Baker, M.A., for three years 

 assistant to Professor Todd, in Amherst Col- 



