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o'clock. All interested are cordially invited 

 to attend them. 



The committee on the Mary Putnam Jacobi 

 fellowship announces that $8,000 of the $25,- 

 000 required has been raised. The fund is 

 expected to provide an income of $1,000, 

 vehereby efficient aid may be rendered to post- 

 graduate vromen students in medicine. The 

 Women's Medical Association of New York 

 City invites the cooperation of all who desire 

 to further the higher medical education of 

 women in medicine. The treasurer of the 

 association is Dr. Eleanor Tomes, 136 East 

 Thirtieth street. 



Professoh Charles Stewart, F.E.S., for 

 the past twenty-three years conservator of the 

 museum of the Eoyal College of Surgeons of 

 England, died on September 27. He was also 

 for a long time Hunterian professor of human 

 and comparative anatomy at the college, and 

 had been Fullerian professor of physiology at 

 the Royal Institution. 



The Berlin Cancer Institute, which is 

 under the direction of Professor von Leyden, 

 is to be considerably enlarged. New labora- 

 tories for the investigation of cancer will, it 

 is announced, be built in a house in the neigh- 

 borhood of the Charite Hospital. 



The New England Federation of Natural 

 History Societies met in Portland, Me., on 

 Friday and Saturday, October 4 and 5. The 

 federation was the guest of the Portland So- 

 ciety of Natural History, an old association 

 of which Stimpson, Mighels, Fuller and Morse 

 were earlier members. About twenty dele- 

 gates were present, representing as many of 

 the affiliated associations. Exhibits were 

 shown by the Appalachian Mountain Club of 

 Mount Washington ilora; Dr. D. W. Fellows, 

 ferns and grasses of Maine ; Mrs. J. H. Lewis, 

 moths of Maine; Fairbanks Museum, St. 

 Johnsbury, Vt., alpine plants ; J. H. Emerton, 

 Boston, spiders; Miss Cherrington and Miss 

 Clapp, of Boston, mosses of New England, 

 and others. The meeting of Friday evening 

 was by the Portland society, with President 

 Leslie A. Lee, of Brunswick, in the chair, Major 

 J. W. Boyd (archeology) and J. H. Emerton 



(spiders) being the speakers. On Saturday 

 evening the meeting was of the federation, 

 with Miss Delia I. Griffin, of St. Johnsbury, 

 on the relations between the small museum 

 and the school children, and Miss M. Edna 

 Cherrington on mosses. On Saturday after- 

 noon a joint outing of the society and the 

 federation made a trip to the shore, where 

 more than a score of unusual species were 

 found in the tide-pools. On Sunday, on in- 

 vitation of Professor Lee, the delegates visited 

 the museums and laboratories of Bowdoin 

 College. The president of the federation is 

 John Ritchie, Jr., and the secretary, J. H. 

 Emerton, both of Boston. The annual meet- 

 ing of the federation is set for April, in Bos- 

 ton, and a special meeting will be convened 

 the first week in July on the summit of Mount 

 Washington, where an unusual opportunity 

 will be afforded to study the fauna, flora, 

 topography and geology of the presidential 

 range. 



The seventh Annual Conference of the 

 Sanitary Officers of the State of New York, 

 under the auspices of the New York State 

 Department of Health, will be held at Buffalo 

 from October 16 to 18. There will be an 

 opening address by Dr. Eugene H. Porter, 

 commissioner of health, and by Governor 

 Hughes. A number of papers of scientific 

 importance will be presented during the six 

 following sessions of the congress. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Mr. John D. Rockefeller has undertaken 

 to triple gifts made for the memorial library 

 to be erected at the University of Chicago in 

 honor of William Rainey Harper. The sum 

 of $110,000 has been subscribed for the me- 

 morial from various sources, and Mr. Rocke- 

 feller has given $330,000. He will triple 

 further gifts, not exceeding $90,000, thus ma- 

 king his total contribution $600,000. 



Professor John Hayes Hammond has given 

 an additional $5,000 for the further equipment 

 of the Hammond Metallurgical Laboratory of 

 the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale Univer- 

 sity. This makes Professor Hammond's gift 

 to the laboratory $127,000. The Sheffield Sci- 



