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Charles Eichet of Paris, for work on anaphy- 

 laxis; The Paris Prize to Professar A. von 

 Wassermann, head of the Kaiser Wilhelm 

 Institute for Experimental Therapy, for work 

 on experimental therapy and on immunity; 

 The Hungary Prize to Sir Almroth Wright 

 of London, for work on anaphylaxis. 



On the occasion of the International Cong- 

 ress of Medicine the Eoyal College of Sur- 

 geons conferred the honorary fellowship of the 

 College on the following surgeons: Professor 

 E. Bastianelli, Eome; Professor A. Bier, Ber- 

 lin; Mr. F. D. Bird, Melbourne; Dr. G. W. 

 Crile, Cleveland, IJ. S. A.; Dr. H. Cushing, 

 Harvard; Dr. A. F. von Eiselsberg, Vienna; 

 Dr. E. Euchs, Vienna; Dr. H. Hartmann, 

 Paris; Professor W. Korte, Berlin; Dr. W. J. 

 Mayo, Eochester, U. S. A.; Dr. A. Monprofit, 

 Paris; Dr. J. B. Murphy, Chicago; Dr. J. 

 Nicolaysen, Christiania; Dr. P. J. Shepherd, 

 Montreal, and Professor T. Tuffier, Paris. 



Prop. W. C. McIntosh, F.E.S., professor of 

 natural history in the University of St. 

 Andrews, and director of the Gatty Marine 

 Laboratory, has been elected president of the 

 Eay Society in succession to the late Lord 

 Avebury. 



Mr. Harold Spencer Jones has been ap- 

 pointed chief assistant in the Royal Observa- 

 tory, Greenwich. 



Sir Eickman Godlee, president of the Eoyal 

 College of Surgeons, has accepted the invita- 

 tion to confer the fellowships of the American 

 College of Surgeons at the first convocation of 

 the institution which is to be held in Chicago, 

 November 13. At this time it is stated that 

 more than twelve hundred surgeons of the 

 United States and Canada will receive fellow- 

 ships.^ 



Dr. James Algernon Temple, formerly dean 

 of Trinity Medical College, and professor of 

 obstetrics and gynecology in the University of 

 Toronto, has received the degree of LL.D. 

 from McGill University. 



Major E. H. Hillis, E.E.S., president of the 

 Eoyal Astronomical Society, has been given 

 the honorary degree of doctor of science by the 

 University of Durham. 



The Raymond Horton-Smith prize at the 

 University of Cambridge for 1913 has been 

 awarded to E. A. Eoper and P. S. Scales, who 

 are adjudged equal for theses for the degree of 

 Doctor of Medicine. Their subjects were : 

 " Creatinine and creatin metabolism , espe- 

 cially in reference to diabetes," and " The 

 electrocardiogram in diabetes." 



The Baly medal has been awarded by the 

 Eoyal College of Physicians to Dr. J. S. Hal- 

 dane, F.E.S., reader in physiology at the 

 University of Oxford. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has, as 

 stated in the Journal of the American Medical 

 Association, awarded two Montyon prizes of 

 $500 each, one to Mme. Lina Negri Luzani 

 for her studies on the so-called Negri bodies, 

 discovered by herself and her late husband in 

 the nervous system of rabid animals ; the other 

 to Dr. L. Ambard for his " Memoir on the 

 Eenal Secretion." The Barbier prize of $400 

 was shared between Drs. Jules and Andre 

 Boeckel, on the one hand, for their work, 

 " Fractures of the Cervical Spine without 

 Medullary Symptoms," and Drs. Beurmann 

 and Gougerot, on the other, for their volume 

 on the sporotrichoses. The Argut prize of 

 $240, a new biennial prize, intended to recom- 

 pense the person who made a discovery curing 

 a disease which previously could be treated 

 only by surgery, thereby increasing the scope 

 of medicine, was awarded to Drs. Eobert 

 Cremieu and Claudius Regaud for their work 

 concerning the effects of the Roentgen ray on 

 the thymus and the treatment of the thymus 

 by roentgenotherapy. The Breant prize of 

 $20,000, intended for the discoverer of a cure 

 for Asiatic cholera, was, of course, not 

 awarded. Out of the interest on the fund, the 

 academy awarded three prizes of $400, one to 

 Dr. C. Levaditi for his work on acute epidemic 

 poliomyelitis and acute infectious pemphigus; 

 one to Drs. A. Netter and R. Debre for their 

 work, " Cerebrospinal Meningitis," and one to 

 Professor V. Babes for his treatise on rabies. 



Dean Charles E. Emerson, of Dartmouth 

 College, in conformity with the vote of the 

 board of trustees passed several years ago, 



