NOVBMBEK 28, 1913] 



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The fourth lecture before the Harvey So- 

 ciety -will be given at the Neve York Academy 

 of Medicine, on Saturday evening, November 

 29, by Professor G. H. Parker, of Harvard 

 University, on " The Nervous System, its 

 Origin and Evolution." 



Professor Ellsworth Huntington, of Tale 

 University, delivered an illustrated lecture on 

 " Changes of Climate during Historical 

 Times," on November 3, before the New York 

 Academy of Sciences, at the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History. 



Professor Shepherd Ivory Eeanz, scientific 

 director and psychologist of the Government 

 Hospital for the Insane, Washington, D. C, 

 on November 15 addressed the Medical So- 

 ciety of St. Louis, on the subject of " Psycho- 

 logical Factors in Medical Practise." 



Reinhaed a. Wetzel was the guest of the 

 research department of the General Electric 

 Company, at Schenectady, on November 8. 

 The subject of his address before the collo- 

 quium was "Einstein's Relativity Concepts 

 as Interpreted by a Physical Model." 



Four lectures on the "Aspects of Islamism " 

 will be delivered at the University of Chicago 

 near the end of the winter quarter by the pro- 

 fessor of Arabic at the University of Leiden, 

 Dr. Christian Snoucke Hurgronje. 



A meeting of the Pathological Society of 

 Philadelphia was held on Thursday evening, 

 November 20, at the College of Physicians, 

 when there was a symposium on the subject of 

 " Physical Growth and Mental Development." 

 ■The speakers were as follows: Dr. H. H. Don- 

 aldson, of the Wistar Institute, " Studies on 

 the Growth of the Central Nervous System " ; 

 Professor Bird T. Baldwin, of Swarthmore 

 College, "The Normal Child; Its Physical 

 Growth and Mental Development " ; Professor 

 Lightner Witmer, of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, " Children with Mental Defects Distin- 

 guished from Mentally Defective Children." 

 The discussion was opened by Professor James 

 H. Leuba, of Bryn Mawr College, Dr. H. H. 

 Goddard, of New Jersey Training School, 

 Vineland, N. J., and Dr. Charles W. Burr, of 

 Philadelphia. 



The Hermann Knapp Memorial Eye Hos- 

 pital has opened its new building at the cor- 

 ner of Fifty-seventh Street and Tenth Avenue, 

 New York. It was founded in 1869 by the late 

 Dr. Hermann Knapp under the name of the 

 New York Ophthalmic and Aural Institute, and 

 for forty-four years it has been in uninter- 

 rupted activity at 44 and 46 East Twelfth 

 Street. On the occasion of its removal to a 

 new building in a new location, the board of 

 trustees decided to change the name of the 

 institution in honor of its founder. The new 

 building is seven stories in height, fireproof 

 throughout, and is equipped with all modern 

 appliances for the treatment and study of dis.- 

 eases of the eye. 



The trustees of the American Medical As- 

 sociation have made a new appropriation for 

 the Committee on Scientific Research. Th& 

 committee has decided to use this money as 

 far as possible to promote work in medical re- 

 search where suitable conditions exist but 

 where such work suffers for the lack of rela- 

 tively small sums of money. Applications for 

 grants are invited and may be sent to any 

 member of the committee which consists of L. 

 Hektoen, 1743 W. Harrison Street, Chicago; 

 S. Flexner, Rockefeller Institute for Medical 

 Research, New York, and Wm. Litterer, Van- 

 derbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. 



The surgeon general of the army announces 

 that preliminary examinations for appoint- 

 ment of first lieutenants in the Army Medical 

 Corps will be held on January 19, 1914. Full 

 information concerning these examinations 

 can be procured upon application to the " Sur- 

 geon General, U. S. Army, Washington, D. C." 

 The essential requirements to secure an invi- 

 tation are that the applicant shall be a citizen 

 of the United States, shall be between 22 and 

 30 years of age, a graduate of a medical school 

 legally authorized to confer the degree of 

 doctor of medicine, shall be of good moral 

 character and habits, and shall have had at 

 least one year's hospital training as an in- 

 terne, after graduation. The examinations 

 will be held simultaneously throughout the 

 country at points where boards can be con- 



