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attempt was made in the senate to amend the bill 

 to the effect that no cent of the appropriation 

 should be used for the support of a medical col- 

 lege. The amendment was turned down by a vote 

 of 34 to 9. A similar amendment in the house was 

 defeated by the decisive vote of 94 to 37. 



The trustees, therefore, who are chosen by the 

 people, are left with the authority to spend $100,- 

 000 more or less, as it may in their best judgment 

 seem wise, for the support of medical education. 

 There is every reason to think that the trustees 

 will be conservative in the carrying out of the 

 duties entrusted to them by the people of IlliDois. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, professor of hy- 

 giene and physiological chemistry in the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan, and dean of the depart- 

 ment of medicine and surgery, was elected 

 president of the American Medical Associa- 

 tion at the recent Minneapolis meeting. 



At the closing session of the meeting in 

 Minneapolis of the Society for the Promotion 

 of Engineering Education, Dean Anthony, of 

 the Tufts Engineering School, was elected 

 president. The next annual meeting will be 

 held at Princeton, N. J. 



The Cannizzaro prize of $2,000, founded by 

 the late Dr. Ludwig Mond, has been awarded 

 by the Accademia dei Lincei, of Rome, to Mr. 

 Frederick Soddy, F.E.S., lecturer in physical 

 chemistry at the University of Glasgow, for 

 his researches in radioactivity. 



The University of Michigan has conferred 

 the doctorate of laws on Dr. Eoscoe Pound, 

 professor in the Harvard Law School, the au- 

 thor of contributions to plant geography, and 

 the degree of doctor of public health on Sur- 

 geon General Rupert Blue. 



Profhssoe Alfred E. Burton, professor of 

 topographic engineering at the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology and dean, has been 

 given the degree of doctor of science by Bow- 

 doin College, from which he was graduated in 

 18Y8. 



The University of Cincinnati has conferred 

 upon Dr. L. A. Bauer, of the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion, the degree of doctor of science. 



The University of Pennsylvania has con- 

 ferred the degree of doctor of science on Mr. 

 Witmer Stone, curator of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and editor of 

 The Auk. 



The University of Vermont has conferred 

 the degree of doctor of science on Mr. Chas. A. 

 Catlin, chemist of the Eumford Chemical 

 Works, Providence, a graduate of the univer- 

 sity in 1872. 



Dr. William J. Mayo, of Rochester, Minn., 

 has been elected foreign correspondent of the 

 Academy of Medicine in Paris. 



Professor Dmitri Petrovitsoh Konova- 

 LOPF, of St. Petersburg, and Professor AHred 

 Werner, of Zurich, have been elected honorary 

 foreign members of the Chemical Society of 

 London. 



Professor S. A. Mitchell, of Columbia 

 University, has been appointed director of the 

 Leander McCormick Observatory at the Uni- 

 versity of Virginia, as successor to Professor 

 Ormond Stone. During the past year Dr, 

 Mitchell has been on sabbatical leave from Co- 

 lumbia and has spent his time at Terkes Ob- 

 servatory in the photographic determination 

 of stellar paradox and in spectrographie in- 

 vestigations of motion in the line of sight. 



The board of scientific directors of the 

 Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research an- 

 nounces the following appointments and pro- 

 motions : The following assistants have been 

 made associates: Frederick Burr LaForge, 

 Ph.D. (chemistry) ; James Bumgardner 

 Murphy, M.D. (pathology and bacteriology) ; 

 Gustave Morris Meyer, Sc.D. (chemistry), 

 and Martha Wollstein, M.D. (pathology and 

 bacteriology). Michael Heidelberger, Ph.D., 

 has been promoted from fellow to assistant in 

 chemistry. The following new appointments 

 are announced: Wade Hampton Brown, M.D., 

 associate in pathology and bacteriology; Car- 

 roll G. Bull, M.D., assistant in pathology and 

 bacteriology; Frederick Lamont Gates, M.D., 

 fellow in physiology and pharmacology. Dr. 

 G. Canby Robinson, formerly associate in 

 medicine, has been appointed associate pro- 

 fessor of medicine at Washington University, 



