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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XL. No. 1043 



Herr K. Krall, who exhibited thein at various 

 places in Germany. 



In accordance with its usual custom the 

 faculty of medicine of Harvard University 

 will ofier a course of free public lectures to 

 be given at the Medical School, on Sunday 

 afternoons, beginning January 3 and ending 

 May 9. The schedule follows : 



January 3 — Dr. Eeid Hunt. Drugs. 



January 10 — Dr. John Lovett Morse. The care 

 and training of older children. 



January 17 — Dr. J. I/. Goodale. Susceptibility 

 and resistance in diseases of the nose and throat. 



January 24 — ^Dr. Alexander Quaekenboss. Cat- 

 aract; its nature and treatment. 



January 31. — Dr. William P. Graves. Hered- 

 ity. 



February 7 — Dr. S. A. Hopkins. Mouth hygiene 

 as a factor in sickness and health. 



February 14 — Dr. Harris P. Mosher. Catarrh. 



February 21 — Dr. George 8. Derby. The pres- 

 ervation of the eyesight. 



February 28— Dr. Franklin W. White. Food 

 in health and disease. "Food fads." "Health 

 foods." "Vegetarianism." 



March 7 — ^Dr. E. G. Martin. Fatigue and rest. 



March 14 — ^Dr. F. 8. Newell. Modern obstet- 

 rics. (To women only.) 



March 21 — Dr. G. 8. C. Badger. Common colds. 



March 28 — Dr. Percy Brown. The use of X- 

 rays as an aid to our knowledge of disease in the 

 stomach and bowels. 



April 4 — Dr. R. B. Osgood. The cause and pre- 

 vention of chronic rheumatism. 



April 11 — Dr. C. A. Porter. What surgery can 

 do for chronic indigestion. 



April 18— Dr. Paul Thorndike. The bladder 

 ailments of man in later life. (To men only.) 



April 25' — ^Dr. E. H. Place. What may we do 

 in diminishing the dangers of contagious disease? 



May 2 — Dr. E. E. Southard. Sex differences in 

 the human brain. 



May 9 — Dr. W. B. Lancaster. Lighting. Good 

 and bad lighting; its effects on the eyesight. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that the Rockefeller Sanitary 

 Commission which has had in charge the eradi- 

 cation of hookworm in the southern states 

 under the fund of $1,000,000 granted by John 

 D. Rockefeller in 1909, will disband at the 

 close of the present year. The forces of the 

 commission at that time will be withdrawn 



from all the states in which they have been 

 working except eight, and the work in these 

 will be taken over by the Rockefeller Founda- 

 tion, a separate organization. The foundation 

 will close up the work in five of the eight 

 states March 1, 1915, and the remaining three 

 on June 30. Under the foundation there has 

 been created an International Commission on 

 Health which will undertake work for the 

 promotion of health in all parts of the world 

 in cooperation with health departments of all 

 countries, and especially will cooperate in the 

 constructive development of state health forces, 

 not alone with reference to hookworm, but in 

 connection with other health conditions. 



Another year's laying record of hens bred 

 from selected strains has been compiled by the 

 poultry department of the Oregon station. 

 A flock of fifty hens averaged 213 eggs each 

 during the calendar year, November 1, 1913, 

 to November 1, 1914. If the actual laying 

 year of each hen is counted the average num- 

 ber of eggs laid becomes 220. The world's 

 champion layer, which last year laid 303 eggs 

 in 365 days, has broken the two-year record by 

 the production of 505 eggs in two years, while 

 another hen has averaged more than 200 eggs 

 a year for four years, having laid 819 eggs 

 within that time. 



UNIVEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 Mr. J. Arthur Beebe has bequeathed $150,- 

 000 to the building club of the Harvard Club 

 of Boston; $10,000 to the fund of the Har- 

 vard class of 1869, of which class he was a 

 member, though he left before graduation; 

 $10,000 for music at Harvard College, and 

 $5,000 to Dr. F. C. Shattuck for investigations 

 of tropical diseases. The residue of the estate, 

 after some personal bequests have been paid, 

 is bequeathed to Harvard University, the in- 

 come to be used for the general purposes of 

 the university. 



The University of Pennsylvania will be the 

 ultimate beneficiary of the $200,000 estate of 

 William B. Irvine, ex-city treasurer, who died 

 December 6. The money will provide either 

 a building for a school of mining engineer- 

 ing or an auditorium. 



