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to $1,000 to be awarded annually to any med- 

 ical woman of special ability who, following 

 the undergraduate course, has completed at 

 least one year of hospital service, including 

 work in maternity wards, and one year of fur- 

 ther practise. The amount is to cover twelve 

 months of special work as fellow in obstetrics, 

 with the condition that the holder of the fel- 

 lowship shall thereafter continue the practise 

 of obstetrics. 



The Woman's Medical Association of ZSTew 

 York City offers the Mary Putnam Jacobi fel- 

 lowship of $800, available for post-graduate 

 study. It is open to any woman physician for 

 •work in any of the medical sciences. The fel- 

 lowship will not be awarded by competitive 

 examination, but upon proof of ability and 

 promise of success in the chosen line of work. 

 Applications for the year 1916-17 must be in 

 the hands of the Committee on Award by April 

 1, 1916, and should be addressed to Dr. Annie 

 S. Daniel, 26 Gramercy Park, New York City. 



According to the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association the Rockefeller Institute 

 for Medical Research has let contracts for the 

 buildings for its work in comparative pathol- 

 ogy near Princeton, N". J., as follows : labo- 

 ratories at a cost of $90,615; power house and 

 tunnels, $102,556; operating building, $27,838. 

 The work is to be finished by September 1. 



The Colorado School of Mines announces 

 that the U. S. Bureau of Mines will move its 

 laboratory from Denver to Golden early in 

 June. The two institutions will cooperate in 

 investigation work. E. B. Moore and ten 

 assistants form the bureau staff. 



The United Engineering Society of New 

 York has issued the annual report of the Li- 

 brary Board for 1915. The revenue was $17,- 

 445, and expenditure $16,380. There were 

 12,820 visitors. 



In a report of the fire which destroyed the 

 chemical laboratory of Cornell University the 

 Alumni News states that it was impossible to 

 save a great amount of material on which no 

 monetary value can be placed. Several mem- 

 bers of the staff lost records and data, the 

 work of years. Notes of experiments and re- 



searches, manuscripts and personal belongings 

 were destroyed. Professor Dennis saved most 

 of the material in his office but lost his notes 

 of class-room work. Professor Chamot lost his 

 most treasured records. Professor Bancroft's 

 working library was destroyed, together with 

 the records and files of the Journal of Physi- 

 cal Chemistry. 



The museum of the Royal College of Sur- 

 geons of England has been closed since June 

 last, the motive being the desire to safeguard 

 the collection from destruction during air 

 raids. AU spirit preparations and some of the 

 more valuable of the others are now stowed in 

 the basement, but those who desire to study 

 any particular specimen will be permitted to 

 do so. The conservator, Dr. Keith, is still in 

 attendance, and anatomical and other scien- 

 tific work is carried on in the workrooms of 

 the college. 



An appeal, signed by 246 German and Aus- 

 trian scientific men, has been made to the 

 public not to cease to subscribe to scientific 

 periodicals. Such periodicals, the memorial- 

 ists state, are indispensable to scientific prog- 

 ress. 



The New England Association of Chemis- 

 try Teachers held its fifty-fifth regular meet- 

 ing on February 13, at Harvard University. 

 The program included remarks by Professor 

 Theodore W. Richards ; an address on " Ra- 

 dium and its Contribution to Chemistry," by 

 Mr. Gerald L. Wendt, Austin teaching fellow, 

 Harvard University, and an address on 

 " Transformations by High Pressure," by 

 Professor P. W. Bridgman. 



The eighth annual meeting of the National 

 Committee for Mental Hygiene, held on Feb- 

 ruary 2 in New York, was attended by a large 

 group of distinguished alienists, social work- 

 ers and philanthropists. Mr. Otto T. Ban- 

 nard, the treasurer, announced that the Rocke- 

 feller Foundation had donated to the National 

 Committee $22,800 for carrying on surveys of 

 the care of the insane in sixteen states during 

 the present year, supplementing gifts of Mrs. 

 William K. Vanderbilt, Mrs. A. A. Anderson 

 and Mr. Henry Phipps. The following offi- 



