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cers were elected: President, Dr. Lewellys F. 

 Barker; Vice-presidents, Dr. Charles W. 

 Eliot and Dr. William H. Welcli; Treasurer, 

 Otto T. Bannard; Medical Director, Dr. 

 Thomas W. Salmon; Secretary, Clifford W. 

 Beers; Executive Committee, Dr. August 

 Hoeh, chairman, Dr. George Blumer, Professor 

 Stephen P. Duggan, Dr. "William Mabon, Dr. 

 William L. Eussell and Dr. Lewellys F. 

 Barker; Finance Committee, Professor Eus- 

 sell H. Chittenden, chairman. Otto T. Ban- 

 nard, Dr. Henry B. Favill and William J. 

 Hoggson; Committee on Mental Deficiency, 

 Dr. Walter B. Fernald, chairman. Dr. L. 

 Pierce Clark, Professor E. E. Johnstone, Dr. 

 Charles S. Little and Dr. Albert C. Eogers. 



The twenty-seventh session of the biological 

 laboratory of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts 

 and Sciences, located at Cold Spring Harbor, 

 will be held in the summer of 1916. Special 

 facilities are offered to investigators and two 

 scholarships of $100 each are available for 

 such. Courses are given in field zoology by 

 Drs. Walter and Kornhauser ; in bird study by 

 Mrs. Walter and Dr. Ehinger; in comparative 

 anatomy by Dr. Pratt and Mr. Hine; in begin- 

 ning investigation, especially in animal bio- 

 nomics and genetics by Drs. Davenport, Pratt 

 and Walter ; in cryptogamic botany by Dr. H. 

 H. York; in systematic and field botany by 

 Dr. Harshberger and Mr. Miller and in train- 

 ing for eugenical field work by Dr. Davenport 

 and Mr. Laughlin. Class work begins on 

 July 5; tuition is $30. The new announce- 

 ment may be obtained from, and application 

 for scholarships made to. Dr. C. B. Davenport, 

 Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, IN". T. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that the Amsterdam Genootschap 

 ter Bevordering van ISTatuur-, Genees- en Heel- 

 kunde founded in 1790, held recently its one 

 hundred and twenty-fifth annual meeting when 

 Dr. C. C. Delprat reviewed its history and 

 achievements. The address is published in the 

 opening number of the Nederlandsch Tijd- 

 schrift voor GeneesTcunde for 1916, which be- 

 gins its sixtieth year. It is accompanied by 

 a dozen engravings showing the amphitheater 

 for teaching of anatomy, 1690; lecture room., 



1760; hospital, 1763, and a number of early 

 officers of the society. The gala meeting was 

 presided over by Professor G. van Eijnberk, 

 who is also editor of the Tijdschrift. The so- 

 ciety awards the Swammerdam medal every 

 tenth year. The four recipients have been the 

 Germans, Siebold, Haeckel and Gegenbatir, 

 and the ISTetherlands scientist, Hugo de Vries. 

 The Tilanus medal has been awarded every 

 five years since the death of this eminent sur- 

 geon. It is given for the best work on some 

 surgical or medical subject, and has been 

 awarded to Zwaardemaker, C. de Mooy, L. Bolk 

 and J. Boeke, all of the ISTetherlands. The so- 

 ciety also distributes some stipends to medical 

 students for study abroad, and has officially 

 contributed to a number of endowment funds 

 in honor of various foreign scientific men. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 



The University of Buffalo has received 

 actual and provisional endowment for the new 

 department of arts and sciences amounting to 

 $750,000. $100,000 of this sum to be given 

 outright by Mrs. Seymour H. Knox, who, with 

 her children, proposes to increase this even- 

 tually to a total of $500,000. $250,000 is given 

 by General Edmund Hayes for the first build- 

 ing upon the university site, provided $1,000,- 

 000 be raised for like purposes before June, 

 1919. 



President Goodnow at the commencement 

 exercises of the Johns Hopkins University, on 

 February 22, announced that the Consolidated 

 Gas Company of l^ew York, the American 

 Gas Company of Philadelphia and the Consoli- 

 dated Gas Company of Baltimore had inter- 

 ested themselves in the establishment of a 

 laboratory at the university for research work 

 as to the possibilities of coal tar products. 

 The purpose is to develop the aniline dye in- 

 dustry and other important branches in the 

 coal tar field. 



The Graduate School of Agriculture will be 

 held at the Massachusetts Agricultural College 

 July 3-28, 1916. This school is under the aus- 

 pices of the Association of American Agricul- 

 tural Colleges and Experiment Stations. Dr. 



