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tuman skeleton witli any degree of accuracy 

 must of course wait upon a further study of 

 the geologic and paleontologic data as well as 

 on a more thoroughgoing somatologic study 

 of the skeleton itself. Dr. Eeck is, however, 

 already convinced that it antedates the so- 

 called alluvial or recent period. The thick- 

 ness of the deposits indicates a considerable 

 lapse of time, especially when one recalls that 

 at least two of the superposed deposits were 

 laid down before the faulting occurred, and 

 with it the drying up of the lake. The change 

 in fauna from rhinocerous, hippopotamus and 

 two types of elephant both different from the 

 living African elephant, to a gazelle and ante- 

 lope fauna is likewise proof of considerable 

 antiquity. Judging from the photograph of 

 the skeleton still in situ, the man of Oldoway 

 gorge did not belong to the Neandertal, but 

 rather to the Aurignacian type of man. In 

 the absence, however, of industrial remains 

 and even photographs in detail, any pro- 

 nouncement as to racial affinities with known 

 European Quaternary human remains would 

 be merely a guess. 



George Grant MacOurdy 

 Yale Univeesitt, 

 New Haven, Conn. 



THE BOCKEFELLEB INSTITUTE FOB MED- 

 ICAL BESEABCH 



A STATEMENT has been given out from the 

 Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research to 

 the effect that in order that further oppor- 

 tunities may be afforded for the more complete 

 investigation of the nature and causes of 

 human disease and methods of its prevention 

 and treatment, Mr. John D. Rockefeller has 

 just donated $2,550,000 to the Rockefeller In- 

 stitute for Medical Research. 



Of the sum just donated a part will be 

 utilized to purchase additional land in New 

 York City so that the Institute will have ac- 

 quired the entire tract where its buildings are 

 now located, between Sixty-fourth and Sixty- 

 seventh Streets on Avenue A, extending 

 through to East River — about four acres. The 

 remainder will be used to erect and equip 

 additional laboratories, buildings, and plant. 



and to insure the proper maintenance and 

 conduct of the extended work. 



This gift of $2,550,000 is in addition to a 

 special fund of $1,000,000 which Mr. Rocke- 

 feller has provided in order that the institute 

 may establish a Department of Animal Pathol- 

 ogy. Dr. Theobald Smith, now professor of 

 comparative pathology in Harvard Medical 

 School, is to become director of the new de- 

 partment. 



It will be the purpose of this branch of the 

 institute's work to give special attention to 

 the study of maladies such as hog cholera, foot 

 and mouth disease, and diseases of poultry, 

 which are of such immediate and practical 

 concern to farmers, and the elimination of 

 which is so important. This will be the first 

 enterprise of this kind upon an adequate basis 

 to be established in this country. The results 

 of its work should eventually be of great value 

 in improving the health of cattle and other 

 farm animals. 



Mr. Rockefeller's previous gifts to the insti- 

 tute had amounted to practically $9,000,000, 

 exclusive of real estate in New Tork City, so 

 that the endowment of the institute will now 

 approximate $12,500,000. 



The Rockefeller Institute will, with the new 

 gift, now become the most amply endowed 

 institution for medical research in the world. 

 In 1902, when the institute was founded, there 

 was not a single undertaking of the kind in 

 this country. England had the Lister Insti- 

 tute, Germany the Institute for Infectious 

 Diseases, France the Pasteur Institute and 

 Russia the Royal Military Institute at St. 

 Petersburg. Since 1902 a number of other 

 research laboratories have been established in 

 this country, including several in Chicago. 



In addition to the laboratories there is con- 

 nected with the institute a hospital with every 

 improved facility for the treatment of patients 

 afflicted with diseases at the time under special 

 investigation. For the treatment and study of 

 contagious diseases — a most important phase 

 of the institute work — there is a separate 

 building with isolated rooms. 



The aims of the Rockefeller Institute and 

 the lines along which its future work — ^upon 



