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the end of his life from the semi- 
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SCIENTIFIC ITEMS 
WE record, with regret the deaths of 
David Pearce Penhallow, professor of 
botany in wfeGill University, and of. 
Professor Melchior Treub, for twenty- 
nine years director of the Buitenzorg 
Botanical Garden in Java. 
THE Nobel Prize in medicine for | 
1910 has been awarded to Dr. Albrecht 
Kossel, professor of physiology at 
Heidelberg.—For his researches on the 
determination of atomic weights the 
Royal Society has awarded the Davy 
medal to Dr. Theodore W. Richards, 
professor of chemistry at Harvard 
University.—The Harben Lectures of 
the Royal Institute of Public Health, 
of London, for 1912, will be given by 
Dr. Simon Flexner, of the Rockefeller 
Institute for Medical Research, New 
York. 
On the occasion of the recent cele- 
bration of the Mexican centenary a | 
statue of Friedrich Heinrich Alexander | 
von Humboldt, who more than one. 
hundred years ago made his journey of | 
research through Mexico, was unveiled. 
—It is proposed to erect in the new 
chemical building of the University of | 
Michigan a bronze tablet in memory of | 
Dr. Albert B. Prescott, for many years 
director of the chemical laboratory.— | 
A drinking fountain has been erected 
at the Central Experiment Farm, Can- | 

THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 
ada, in memory of Dr. James Fletcher, 
former Dominion entomologist and bot- 
anist.—The classification and catalogu- 
ing of the Simon Newcomb Library, 
the acquirement of which by the Col- 
lege of the City of New York has been 
announced, has been completed. This 
collection of 4,000 volumes and 6,000 
pamphlets, was presented by Mr. John 
Claflin. 
THE hospital of the Rockefeller In- 
stitute for Medical Research was 
opened on October 17. There were no 
special ceremonies, but a number of 
guests were present to inspect the hos- 
pital. At the same time it was an- 
nounced that Mr. Rockefeller had given 
securities valued at $3,820,000 for the 
endowment of the institute, and that 
its organization had been completed.— 
At the celebration of the centenary of 
the University of Berlin Emperor 
William made an address, in the course 
of which he said that the occasion 
seemed to be peculiarly appropriate 
for a fresh movement towards the com- 
pletion of Humboldt’s aims. Hum- 
boldt’s scheme required, in addition to 
the Academy of Sciences and the Uni- 
versity, independent institutions for 
research. The plan had been com- 
municated only to a small circle, but 
already sums amounting to between 
nine and ten millions of Marks, had 
been forthcoming. It would be the 
care of his government to see that the 
new foundations did not lack state 
assistance. 
