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the coordinated forces of various phases of 

 science could be carried on from year to year; 

 while at the same time, by means of such 

 grants of assistance as had been offered during 

 the initial year, it should continue to make 

 available the resources of special workers all 

 over the country, as well as in Europe. 



In view of the above considerations relating 

 to its future, in June, 1902, Mr. Eockefeller 

 gave to the institute the sum of one million 

 dollars for the purchase of suitable land, the 

 erection of buildings, and the organization of 

 a working force along the broader lines which 

 had been projected. It is the purpose of the 

 directors to proceed at once to the erection of 

 a laboratory building which will provide for 

 the present requirements and will be capable 

 of enlargement as the character and extent 

 of the work of the institute may develop. 

 Negotiations for a suitable plot are now under 

 way. 



A small hospital will also be built in the 

 immediate future, which will be maintained 

 in close association with the experimental 

 work of the institute. 



Provision will be made in the laboratory 

 building for research in physiological chem- 

 istry, pharmacology and therapeutics ; in nor- 

 mal and pathological physiology; and in vari- 

 ous phases of morphology; and for the study 

 of bacteria and other microorganisms. It is 

 hoped that the laboratory buildings may be 

 completed and ready for the commencement 

 of work in the autumn of 1904. 



Dr. Simon Flexner, professor of pathology 

 in the University of Pennsylvania, will direct 

 the scientific work when the building is com- 

 pleted. His colleagues deem it of the highest 

 importance that the institute has been able 

 to secure so eminent an investigator as Dr. 

 Flexner to shape the work of its early years. 

 T)t. Flexner will spend several months abroad 

 while the new buildings are in course of erec- 

 tion. 



It is proposed to organize the various sec- 

 tions and departments into which the work 

 of the institute will naturally fall so that each 

 of them, though in a measure autonomous, 

 will still be so closely associated as to favor 

 the conjoint investigation of comprehensive 



problems. Associated with the head of each 

 of these departments it is proposed to have 

 a staff of trained assistants. 



Provision will also be made for research 

 work by a group of trained men, to be desig- 

 nated fellows, scholars, etc., of the institute, 

 under pecuniary grants of varying amounts. 



Finally, opportunity will be afforded to suit- 

 able investigators, not members of the regular 

 staff of the institute, to pursue special lines 

 of research. 



The directors of the institute are: 



Di-. William H. Welch, Baltimore; Dr. T. Mit- 

 chell Prudden, New York; Dr. Theobald Smith, 

 Boston; Di-. Simon Flexner, Philadelphia; Dr. 

 Hermann M. Biggs, New York; Dr. C. A. Herter, 

 New York; Dr. L. Emmett Holt, New York. 



The officers are : 



President — Dr. William H. Welch. 

 Vice-President — ^Dr. T. Jlitchell Prudden. 

 Secretary — ^Dr. L. Emmett Holt. 

 Treasurer — Dr. C. A. Herter. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 Dr. J. H. van't Hoff, professor of chem- 

 istry at the University of Berlin, has been 

 elected a corresponding member of the Acad- 

 emy of Sciences at Munich, and an honorary 

 member of the Philosophical Society of Cam- 

 bridge. 



M. E. Mascart has been elected a member 

 of the International Committee on Weights 

 and Measures. 



The Lucy Wharton Drexel medal of the 

 University of Pennsylvania was presented to 

 Professor F. W. Putnam at the Founder's Day 

 celebration on February 21. The medal was 

 established four years ago, but no awards 

 were made until this year, when four were 

 awarded at one time. The other three to re- 

 ceive the medal are : Professor Petrie for his 

 work at Abydos; Professor Evans for his ex- 

 cavations at Crete; and Professor Hilprecht 

 for work in Babylonia. Hereafter one 

 medal will he awarded each year ' for the best 

 excavations in archeology or for the best pub- 

 lication, based on archeology, by an English- 

 speaking scholar.' Next year the medal will 



