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Notes  and  News. 
f  Am.  Jour.  Pharru. 
I  December.  1901. 
The  New  Yorker  Deutscher  Apotheker  Verein  celebrated  their  fiftieth 
anniversary  on  October  i  with  a  large  banquet.  "  Founded  half  a  century  ago 
by  a  few  German  druggists  of  New  York,  who  met  for  the  promotion  of  good 
fellowship  and  the  advancement  of  pharmaceutical  knowledge,  the  Association 
has  become  one  of  the  most  influential  pharmaceutical  organizations  in  the 
city." 
State  Aid  in  Educational  Work. — J.  M.  Cattell  {Science,  1901,  p.  575),  in 
discussing  the  Washington  Memorial  Institution  and  a  National  University, 
says  :  "We  shall  not  always  depend  on  the  charit}7  of  the  rich,  nor  will  our 
universities  always  be  administered  by  business  men.  Pennsylvania,  Johns 
Hopkins,  and  Cornell  are  turning  to  the  State  for  help  ;  Harvard,  Yale,  and 
Columbia  must  do  the  same  if  their  prestige  is  to  be  maintained." 
The  Metric  System. — In  a  report  to  the  British  Association  of  Chambers 
of  Commerce  the  following  resolutions  were  adopted  :  "  (1)  That,  after  con- 
sidering various  suggestions,  this  committee  is  unanimously  of  the  opinion  that 
the  chambers  should  unite  in  urging  upon  the  Government  the  compulsory 
adoption  of  the  metrical  system  of  weights  and  measures,  leaving  matteis  of 
detail  to  be  considered  later;  (2)  That  the  Committee  is  unanimously  of 
opinion  that  a  British  decimal  system  of  coinage  must  be  on  the  basis  of  retain- 
ing the  sovereign,  with  the  florin  as  a  unit,  divided  into  a  hundred  cents  or 
farthings  ;  (3)  The  Committee  recommends  that  there  should  be  metal  coins  of 
five  and  ten  cents,  and  bronze  coins  of  one,  two  and  four  cents  or  farthings." 
The  Hanbury  Medal,  was  presented  to  Dr.  George  Watt,  widely  known 
as  the  author  of  "The  Economic  Products  of  India,"  on  October  1st  by  the 
President  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great  Britain . 
Rudolf  Vi.rchow's  eightieth  birthday  (October  12th)  was  celebrated  in 
Berlin  with  appropriate  ceremonies.  The  Virchow  research  fund  was  in- 
creased by  50,000  marks  ;  a  new  hospital  containing  1,700  beds  has  been  named 
in  his  honor  ;  and  the  Emperor  has  conferred  an  order  and  a  medal.  In  New 
York  city  there  was  also  a  banquet  in  honor  of  Virchow  given  on  October  12th. 
Horatio  C.  Wood  has  been  granted  leave  of  absence  for  a  year  from  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania,  and  H.  C.  Wood,  Jr.,  delivers  the  lectures  upon 
the  physiological  action  of  drugs. 
H.  H.  Rusby  delivered  a  lecture  on  "Production  of  Cinchona  Bark  and 
Quinine  in  the  East  Indies,"  at  the  New  York  Botanical  Gardens,  on  Novem- 
ber 9th. 
John  Uri  Lloyd  has  written  a  new  story  "Warwick  of  the  Knobs,"  a 
story  of  a  strange  people  and  a  curious  form  of  life  in  Stringtown  County, 
Ky.  Etidorhpa  has  also  been  recently  published  in  popular  form,  several 
chapters,  which  were  omitted  when  it  was  first  printed,  having  been  restored. 
Hannah  E.  Longshore,  the  first  woman  to  practice  medicine  in  Philadel- 
phia, died  October  15th.  It  is  said  that  the  sneers,  ridicule  and  obstacles  she 
encountered  at  that  time  might  have  driven  any  one  less  reliant  from  the  field. 
Male  physicians  refused  to  consult  with  her  because  she  was  a  woman,  and 
