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an even more comprelieiisive basis — will be 

 conducted, are indicated by some of its prac- 

 tical achievements already accomplislied, such 

 as the serum treatment of epidemic meningitis ; 

 the discovery of the cause and mode of infec- 

 tion of infantile paralysis, the surgery of 

 blood vessels through which blood transfusion 

 has become a daily life-saving expedient; the 

 safer method of administering anesthetics by 

 intratracheal insufflation; the skin or luetic 

 reaction and the cultivation of the parasite 

 of rabies. 



The scope of the work of the institute will 

 be indicated by a list of the several special 

 scientific departments which it maintains. It 

 includes pathology, bacteriology, protozoology, 

 biological chemistry, physiology and pharma- 

 cology, experimental biology, and animal pa- 

 thology, besides the special hospital. 



BEQUESTS OF MBS. MOBBIS K. JESUP 

 Mrs. Morris K. Jesup, who died on June 17, 

 bequeathed $5,000,000 to the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History and made other be- 

 quests to public institutions amounting to 

 $3,450,000. In providing in her will for the 

 American Museum of Natural History, Mrs. 

 Jesup said: 



I give and bequeath to the American Museum of 

 Natural History of the eity of New York four mil- 

 lion dollars ($4,000,000) as a permanent fund to 

 be known as ' ' The Morris K. Jesup Fund, ' ' the 

 income, and only the income, to be used in the 

 purchase of specimens and collections and the ex- 

 penses incident to and incurred in assisting sciea- 

 tific research and investigation and publication re- 

 garding the same, which the trustees of the mu- 

 seum shall regard as in its interests. 



In a codicil, added to her will three years after 

 the will was drawn, an additional $1,000,000 

 is given to the museum. Morris K. Jesup, who 

 died on January 22, 1908, became president of 

 the museum in 1882, and devoted a large part 

 of his time and energy to its interests. In his 

 lifetime Mr. Jesup gave more than $1,000,000 

 to the museum, and under his will it inherited 

 an additional $1,000,000. 



Other public bequests made by Mrs. Jesup 

 include the following: 



Syrian Protestant College $400,000 



Yale University 300,000 



Union Theological Seminary 300,000 



Young Men 's Christian Association 250,000 



New York State Woman 's Hospital 150,000 



Williams College 150,000 



Metropolitan Museum of Art 100,000 



Presbyterian Hospital 100,000 



Hampton Institute 50,000 



Tuskegee Institute 50,000 



Northfield School 25,000 



Mount Hermon School 25,000 



New York Zoological Society 25,000 



New York Botanical Gardens 25,000 



Memorial Hospital for Cancer 10,000 



St. Luke's Hospital 10,000 



Cooper Union 10,000 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The American Medical Association at its 

 meeting at Atlantic City elected officers for 

 the meeting to be held next year at San 

 Francisco as follows : President, Dr. William 

 L. Hodman, of Philadelphia; first vice-presi- 

 dent. Dr. D. S. Fairchild, of Iowa ; second vice- 

 president. Dr. Wisner E. Townsend, of New 

 York; third vice-president. Dr. Alice Hamil- 

 ton, of Chicago; fourth vice-president. Dr. 

 William Edgar Darnall, of Atlantic City; 

 secretary. Dr. Alexander E. Craig, of Chicago, 

 reelected; treasurer. Dr. William Allen Pusey, 

 of Chicago. 



At the opening meeting of the American 

 Medical Association, its gold medal was con- 

 ferred on Surgeon General WiUiam Crawford 

 Gorgas. 



Western Eeserve University has conferred 

 its doctorate of laws on Dr. Simon Plexner, 

 director of the laboratories of the Eockefeller 

 Institute for Medical Eesearch. 



Among the degrees conferred by Harvard 

 University at its commencement exercises 

 were the master of science on Dr. Milton J. 

 Eosenau, professor of preventive medicine in 

 the Harvard Medical School, and the degree 

 of doctor of science on Dr. W. C. Sabine, pro- 

 fessor of physics and dean of the graduate 

 school. 



Dr. William L. Dudley, dean of the medi- 

 cal department and director of the chemical 



