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the most noted and largest in Germany and 

 can look back on a notable past. The society 

 was formed by the union of two Berlin socie- 

 ties. The older of these was founded in 1844 

 as a society for scientific medicine and the 

 younger was the Verein Berliner Aerzte, 

 founded in 1858. In order to obviate any 

 difficulties arising from the union of the two 

 societies, which took place in 1860, Rudolf 

 Virchow resigned his position as president of 

 the society for scientific medicine, in favor of 

 Albrecht v. Grafe, the president of the other 

 society. The Berlin Medical Society, in spite 

 of the separation from it of numerous special 

 associations, of which that founded by v. Ley- 

 den as the Verein fiir innere Medizin was the 

 first, has still remained the central point of 

 scientific medical activity in Berlin, and al- 

 most every Berlin physician considers it his 

 duty to belong to it, so that at present it has 

 more than 1,600 members. As a result of the 

 participation of the imiversity teachers, the 

 scientific proceedings are always valuable and 

 a number of important discoveries have been 

 presented here for the first time. As succes- 

 sors of V. Grafe, Bernhardt von Langenbeck, 

 Rudolf Virchow, Ernst v. Bergmann, and 

 finally H. Senator have held the office of presi- 

 dent. Robert Koch, Helmholtz and Pasteur 

 were made honorary members, a distinction 

 which has seldom been bestowed. On the 

 occasion of the semi-centennial the number of 

 honorary members was considerably increased, 

 including in addition to two living members 

 of the society, two physicians practising in 

 Berlin, Professor Waldeyer and the surgeon 

 general of the Prussian army, v. Schjerning, 

 Naunyn (Baden-Baden), Exner and Fuchs 

 (Vienna), Golgi, Armauer-Hansen (Christi- 

 ania), Abraham Jacobi (New York), Fr. 

 Koranyi (Budapest), Keen (Philadelphia), 

 Kitasato (Tokio), Laveran (Paris), Lepine 

 (Lyons), Lister, Murri (Bologna), Pawlow 

 (St. Petersburg), Ramon y Cajal (Madrid), 

 Retzius (Stockholm), Salomonsen (Copen- 

 hagen) and Rontgen (Munich). Senator was 

 elected honorary president. On the festival 

 day it was announced that so far $15,000 

 (63,000 Marks) had been subscribed by the 



members for the building of the projected 

 Virchow House, which is to be the special 

 home of the society. The widow of Virchow 

 on the same occasion announced that she 

 would make over to the new building the 

 private collections and valuable memorials of 

 Virchow. 



At a meeting of the trustees of the Beit 

 memorial fellowships for medical research, 

 the reports by the fellows on their work dur- 

 ing the past year, which had been considered 

 by the advisory board, were approved. The 

 following is a list of those who were elected 

 to fellowships, the subject of research and the 

 institution in which it is to be carried for- 

 ward: 



Thomas Renton Elliott, M.D. (Cantab.), 

 M.R.C.P. (Lend.). The pathological changes in 

 the suprarenal glands. Medical School of Uni- 

 versity College Hospital. 



Eric Edwin Atkin, M.B. (Cantab.). A group 

 of toxins with respect to the manner of destruc- 

 tion, mode of neutralization by antibody, and 

 effect of the various modifications upon the ani- 

 mal organism. The Bacteriological Laboratory of 

 the London Hospital. 



Frances Mary Tozer, B.Sc. (Lond.). The pres- 

 ence of sensory fibers in the third, fourth and 

 sixth cranial nerves; their influence upon ocular 

 paralysis in locomotor ataxia and other diseases, 

 and the site of the ganglion cells. The Physiolog- 

 ical Laboratory of the Liverpool University. 



Richard Williams Harold Row, B.Sc. (Lond.). 

 The structure, development and functions of the 

 pituitary body in vertebrata. King's College, 

 London, the Marine Biological Association's Labo- 

 ratory, and the Naples Zoological Station. 



Henry Priestley, M.B., Ch.M. (Sydney). The 

 diphtheroid organisms with regard to their dis- 

 tribution, morphology, cultural characteristics, 

 pathology and relationship to diseased conditions 

 of man and animals. The Lister Institute of Pre- 

 ventive Medicine. 



Frederick Perera Wilson, M.D., M.Se. (Liver- 

 pool). The changes in the lipoids of the tissues 

 produced by syphilis and their relation to hae- 

 molysis and immunity. The Biochemical Depart- 

 ment of the University of Liverpool. 



Artnur Gurney Yates, M.D. (Edin.). The bac- 

 teriology of acute rheumatism. The Pathological 

 Department of the University of Sheffield. 



Annie Homer, D.Sc, T.C.D. The chemistry and 



