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will amount to about $300,000, and four-fifths 

 of this sum is to be spent in four prizes for ad- 

 vances in science. The competition will be 

 open to Scandinavians and foreigners on equal 

 terms. All men of science will look forward 

 with great interest to learning the details of this 

 bequest — probably the most noteworthy ever 

 made for public purposes — and the methods to 

 be followed in awarding these great prizes. 



The widow of Baron Maurice Hirsch, of 

 Vienna, has resolved to present about $400,000 

 to the Pasteur Institute as a memorial of her 

 husband. Part of this sum will be used for 

 building chemical and biological laboratories. 



The will of the late Robert H. Lamborn, 

 which bequeathes about $200,000 to the Acad- 

 emy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, has 

 been admitted to probate. 



It was reported at the Frankfort meeting of 

 the German naturalists and physicians that 

 255,000 Marks had been collected for the me- 

 morial to the eminent chemist von Hoffmann. 

 This will be used for the erection of a building 

 to be known as the 'Hoffmann Hausa,' to be 

 used as the headquarters of the German Chemi- 

 cal Society. It is proposed to establish in it a 

 laboratory and a library, which latter includes 

 the books left by von Hoffmann. 



The late General Cullum left $100,000 to the 

 American Geographical Society, New York, for 

 a building, and also bequeathed a further sum, 

 to be known as the Cullum Geographical Medal 

 Fund, for a gold medal to be given to those who 

 should render most distinguished services to 

 geographical science, and particularly to Ameri- 

 can citizens. The first medal has been awarded 

 to Mr. R. E. Peary, U. S. N., for having estab- 

 lished the insularity of Greenland. 



Peofessor Beheing has been awarded the 

 Rinecker prize consisting of a gold medal and 

 1000 Marks by the University of Wiirzburg, for 

 his discovery of the Anti-toxin treatment of 

 diptheria. 



The British Institute of Public Health has 

 awarded the Harben medal for 1897 to Pro- 

 fessor M. von Pettenkofer, emeritus professor 

 of hygiene in the University of Munich. 



The Bressa prize of the Reale Accademie 

 delle Scienze, of Turin, will be awarded for the 



eleventh time in 1899. The prize, which is of 

 the value of nearly $2,000, is given for the most 

 important scientific work produced during the 

 years 1895-98. Competitors must send their 

 contributions in print before the end of the pres- 

 ent year. The academy reserves the right to 

 award the prize to one who has not entered his 

 name among the competitors. 



A STATUE of the late Samuel Gross, the emi- 

 nent Philadelphia surgeon, will be unveiled at 

 the Triennial Congress of American Physicians, 

 to be held in Washington in May. The statue 

 will be in the grounds of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution, near the Army Medical Museum. 



The deaths are announced of Mr. G. F. 

 Schacht, who made improvements in the appli- 

 cation of certain drugs to the treatment of dis- 

 ease, at the age of seventy -three years ; of Dr. 

 Liugi Calori, professor of anatomy at Bologna, 

 at the age of eighty-nine years, and of Mr. R. 

 Warner, an English horticulturalist, at the age 

 of eighty-two. 



The Chemical Society of Washington, at its 

 thirteenth annual meeting, elected the following 

 oflicers : President, W. D. Bigelow ; Vice- 

 Presidents, H. N. Stokes and Peter Fireman ; 

 Secretary, V. K. Chesnut; Treasurer, W. P. 

 Cutter, and Executive Committee, C. E. Munroe, 

 E. A. de Schweinitz, Wirt Tassin and W. G. 

 King. 



Colonel Carroll D. Weight, United States 

 Commissioner of Labor, has been chosen Presi- 

 dent of the American Statistical Association, at 

 its annual meeting. The position was left vacant 

 by the death of General F. A. Walker, who had 

 filled it for fourteen years. 



Dr. G. H. Savage has been elected President 

 of the Neurological Society of London. The 

 subject of his inaugural address, which was to 

 have been given on January 14th, is 'Heredity 

 in the Neuroses.' 



The London correspondent of Garden and 

 Forest states that the Royal Horticultural So- 

 ciety continues to provide lectures for its bi- 

 monthly meetings at the Drill Hall, and that the 

 bulk of them are a success. Next year's pro- 

 gram contains some items of more than usual 

 interest, namely: 'Microscopic Gardening,' by 

 Prof. Marshall Ward, of Cambridge ; 'Artificial 



