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5. That the interest of this fund should be 

 used from time to time in awarding the Frank- 

 lin medal to those workers in physical science 

 or technology, without regard to country, 

 whose efforts have, in the judgment of the 

 institute, done most to advance a knowledge of 

 physical science or its applications. 



6. That any excess of income from this 

 fund, beyond such average annual sum as 

 might be deemed necessary by the institute for 

 the number of medals it is considered best to 

 award, might be used for premiums to accom- 

 pany the medals. 



Mr. InsuU said he understood that the insti- 

 tute would be glad to award, on the average, 

 two Franklin medals a year. Though this 

 would leave little surplus, he inserted the sixth 

 condition to prevent an undesirable accumula- 

 tion of the fund. 



At the stated meeting of the board of man- 

 agers, February 11, 1914, the above offer was 

 accepted, and the medal has been designed by 

 Dr. E. Tait McKenzie, of the University of 

 Pennsylvania. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Among the German scientific men who 

 have affixed their names to a msmifesto re- 

 nouncing the honors conferred upon them by 

 English universities and other learned insti- 

 tutions are Professors Paul Ehrlich, EmQ 

 von Behring, Ernst Haeckel, August Weis- 

 mann and Wilhelm Wundt. 



Dr. F. M. Urban, professor of psychology 

 in the University of Pennsylvania, is in Aus- 

 tria, and is said to be with the Austrian army. 



Dr. David Todd, professor of astronomy at 

 Amherst College and Mrs. Todd, about whom 

 there has been some anxiety, have been re- 

 ported to be in Petrograd. 



Mr. Wenceslas Kotehekow, assistant Eus- 

 sian agricultural commissioner, and Mr. 

 Wladimir Generasoff, secretary of the Eus- 

 sian agricultural agency, have been in this 

 country to study agricultural conditions. 



Dr. Benjamin Meade Bolton, of the Bureau 

 of Animal Industry, U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, sailed from New York for Cuba on 

 August 29, to conduct a campaign for the De- 

 partment of Agriculture of Cuba against hog 

 cholera. 



Drs. Warren A. Dennis, St. Paul; William 

 J. Mayo, Eochester, and James E. Moore, Min- 

 neapolis, the committee on cancer of the Min- 

 nesota Public Health Association, have been 

 invited to act as the Minnesota state committee 

 on cancer for the American Society for the 

 Prevention and Control of Cancer. 



Sir Ernest Shackleton has appointed Mr. 

 Alexander Stevens, assistant in geography at 

 Glasgow University, to be geologist and geog- 

 rapher to the Weddell Sea party of his expedi- 

 tion. 



James C. Todd, professor of pathology at the 

 University of Colorado, has been granted leave 

 of absence for the academic year. 



The Philosophical Union of the University 

 of California celebrated its twenty-fifth anni- 

 versary on August 26, when Professor Josiah 

 Eoyce gave an address on " The Spirit of the 

 Community." 



Professor Frederic S. Lee gave the address 

 at the opening of the present session of the Col- 

 lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Colum- 

 bia University on September 23, 1914, taking 

 as his subject the relation of the medical sci- 

 ences to clinical medicine. 



The Huxley Memorial Lecture at Charing 

 Cross Hospital on recent advances in science 

 and their bearing on medicine and surgery 

 will be given by Sir Eonald Eoss, on Novem- 

 ber 2. 



Dr. Morris Longstreth died on Septem- 

 ber 19 at Barcelona, Spain. On August 29 

 his wife died also at Barcelona. Dr. Long- 

 streth was born in Philadelphia, in 1846. He 

 was professor of pathological anatomy at Jef- 

 ferson Medical College, a fellow in the Amer- 

 ican Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence, a member of the American Philosophical 

 Society and one of the founders of the Asso- 

 ciation of American Physicians. 



