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The hospital will accommodate only about sev- 

 enty patients. They will be selected to enable the 

 physicians of the institution to study particular 

 diseases on the combating of which all their 

 strength and ability will be concentrated. Only a 

 small group of diseases will be included at a time, 

 so as to permit thorough concentration. As a 

 result of this arrangement the patient will get 

 the best treatment and the benefit of the most 

 up-to-date medical information. 



Up to the present time the work of the Rocke- 

 feller Institute was confined to laboratory studies 

 of physiological and chemical aspects of diseases 

 and to surgical and other problems that could be 

 studied on animals. 



The need for the direct study of diseases under 

 conditions that would permit the most minute and 

 accurate observations with the aid of a most com- 

 prehensive equipment led to the foundation of the 

 hospital. The physicians of the institute will 

 devote all their time and energy to the cure of the 

 sick entrusted to their care. They will not engage 

 in outside practise. But instead of being com- 

 pelled to treat almost every kind of disease, as in 

 a general hospital, they will concentrate on a few 

 ailments without being diverted by attending to 

 others. 



The hospital will have physiological, chemical 

 and biological laboratories to supplement those of 

 like nature in the institute. The laboratories of 

 the hospital will be devoted to investigations 

 bearing on the diseases under treatment, while the 

 laboratories of the institute will continue their 

 investigations as conducted at present. Any dis- 

 covery of a new remedy in the laboratory of the 

 institute will be immediately available to the 

 hospital, and a constant cooperation of the two 

 divisions will be assured. 



The medical stafif of the hospital will consist 

 of the director, Dr. Rufus J. Cole, formerly of 

 Johns Hopkins University; Dr. Christian A. Her- 

 ter. Dr. C. C. Robinson and four internes, Drs. 

 Draper, Swift, Marks and Peabody. The diseases 

 to be admitted to the hospital at its opening to 

 patients will be infantile paralysis, pneumonia 

 and heart disease. 



The present occasion seemed to him to be pecu- 

 liarly appropriate for a fresh movement towards 

 the completion of Humboldt's aims. Humboldt's 

 scheme required, in addition to the Academy of 

 Sciences and the University, independent institu- 

 tions for research as integral parts of the whole. 

 The foundation of such institutions had not kept 

 pace in Prussia with the development of universi- 

 ties, and this lacuna, especially with regard to the 

 natural sciences, was felt more and more with the 

 growth of knowledge. They needed establishments 

 for pure research in close touch with the academy 

 and the university, but unhampered by the giving 

 of instruction. The early provision of such places 

 of research seemed to him to be a sacred obligation 

 of the present day, and it was his duty to appeal 

 for general interest in this cause. Large sums 

 were needed and could be obtained only by uni- 

 versal cooperation and by sacrifices. He would 

 say to everybody, " Tua res agitur," and he was 

 confident of success. The plan had been communi- 

 cated only to a small circle, but already consid- 

 erable sums, amounting to between nine and ten 

 millions of Marks, had been forthcoming, together 

 with enthusiastic expressions of approval from 

 difi'erent parts of the country. It was his wish to 

 found a society under his own patronage and 

 bearing his own name for the foundation and 

 maintenance of research institutions. It would 

 be the care of his government to see that the 

 new foundations did not lack state assistance as 

 far as was necessary. Might that day mark a 

 fresh stage in the development of the intellectual 

 life of Germany. 



FOUNDATIONS FOR RESEARCH AT BERLIN 

 At the celebration of the centenary of the 

 University of Berlin Emperor William made 

 an address, in the course of which, according 

 to the report in the London Times, he said: 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The annual meeting of the American So- 

 ciety of Naturalists will be held from De- 

 cember 28 to 30 at Cornell University, Ithaca, 

 New York. The general program will consist 

 of a symposium on the subject of " Geno- 

 types or pure lines of Johannsen." Professor 

 Johannsen himself, of Copenhagen, will con- 

 tribute a paper, and other invited papers will 

 be given by investigators working in the 

 fields of inheritance and evolution. Each pre- 

 sentation will be followed by an open discus- 

 sion. The naturalists' dinner will be ar- 

 ranged for the evening of December 29, when 

 the president. Professor D. T. MacDougal, 

 will deliver his address. Dr. Charles K. 



